Carlos Sainz will boot from 5th position in the Italian F1 GP this Sunday at Monza. A priori, it doesn’t seem like the best position to start the fight, especially since he’s only a few thousandths away from third place, which could give him more options.
But in his last race at the house of Ferrari wearing a red suit, Carlos Sainz is not satisfied with a podium and dreams big. Sainz assured the Spanish press present at Monza, including Mundo Deportivo, that “you can dream of success.”
The differences between McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes may be minimal. Even Verstappen, starting 7th, could have good speed. In Monza, with so many meters until reaching the first corner, you can overtake at the start taking advantage of the slipstream of other rivals and, with a wider first corner than last year, you can overtake.
But above all, Carlos Sainz points to the main unknown: ‘graining’ (type of wear based on chips that remain attached to the tire surface). There will be a key to everything. Carlos believes that if his Ferrari can make a difference in that aspect, he can fight for victory.
“The key? A little bit of everything (slip at the start, overtaking in the first corner and the breakdown of the tires). I think tomorrow there will be opportunities to think about everything (success). Especially since there are many unknowns there is the graining (wear of the tire), with the team that will know how to manage it best. So you have to do everything possible so that this graining does not appear because it can give a lot of time to each lap,” he pointed out. the Spanish.
“Tomorrow we will try to do everything, not only for the podium, but we also have to dream of victory, because, as I said, everything is tomorrow. change the whole race, because we are talking about lowering a second or two if the grain opens or maintains a ‘qualy’ speed if it doesn’t open, so there can be a lot of difference,” he reasoned.
6 THOUSAND LECLERC
“It looks like you’re just looking at my teammate. What I’m angry about is a tenth and a half away from the post, which is today’s goal. And to be honest, it has escaped us. After doing a purple sector in the first sector, I knew there was a chance I went to pole, but I had a lot of problems with the front tire in the second and third sectors in Q3, a cloud came to cover the sun, we got a lot of grip at the rear and I had a lot of understeer in the fast corners, compared to Q2 or Q1 At no point can I improve the second and third sectors, which is probably what cost us the distance in Lando. The car is very sensitive and also the tires to the temperature change, but in on the other hand, we start fifth tomorrow and we have to go for a good race.
POSSIBILITIES OF FIGHTING LECLERC IF THEY ARE AN OPTION FOR THE PODIUM
“Can we fight? In principle, yes. Unless they tell us something on the radio, which then, no.”
HE CAN FIGHT MCLAREN
“Yes, we are there. Maybe they still have a tenth, which will be noticeable in the race in the long run, but with a tenth… I prefer to dream.”
GOOD FIRST SECTOR
“I was very fast in the first sector, but to be honest, the second and third were very good in Q1 and Q2. I don’t know what happened in Q3. The time came to push a little more in the fast corners and the tire The front didn’t work for me and I couldn’t turn the car as much as I wanted something to learn and now we have to continue and think about the race, because obviously in a race with 8 cars, it will be a happy race away.”
Source: La Verdad
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