To win in F1 you not only have to be a good driver, but you have to be in the right place at the right time.reaching a big team at the exact moment when said team could give its drivers a championship car. Carlos Sainz has been wearing Ferrari red since 2020. Perhaps he felt the right place to succeed. But not at the perfect timebecause of the 4 seasons the Spaniard drove for the people from Maranello, the prestigious transalpine firm did not give him a championship car. Neither his, nor Leclerc’s.
Perhaps they will have it in 2025, but as Carlos recalled, he is no longer at Ferrari to check it. And that is really the only “sad” reflection that his victory in Mexico last week has left him, as he admitted in remarks reported by ‘Diario AS’ from Sao Paulo, in preview of the 2024 F1 Brazilian GP “If I’m sad maybe it’ll be next year and I won’t be here.”he declared in the press conference held this Thursday.
Ferrari only delivered a winning car to its drivers at the start of the 2022 season, with the debut of the current regulation, but that car has clearly been overtaken by Verstappen’s Red Bull since then. At the beginning of the year, Carlos had a hard time adapting to the cars driving style in the new regulations, completely opposite to him, but he fought and worked as hard as he could to come back and finish the year fully adapted to the car. But that car won no more races.
now, The great finale of the 2024 World Championship of the red car, the best in Austin and Mexico, left Carlos with a ‘but’, knowing that maybe the Ferrari will be a championship car in 2025, or at least, a win at the start of the seasonbecause the cars for the next campaign will be an evolution of the current ones and the order of the grid above may be almost the same as at the end of 2024.
Open the door to Ferrari for the future
Moreover, Carlos Sainz recalled that his door remains open for Ferrari in the future, as he has repeated on several occasions this year. “Of course. I think my door is always open for Ferrari in the future, but for the short and medium term in the future, my commitment to Williams and to that project will not change at all,” he said in statements that reported by the portal. ‘Motorsport.com’
“I think giving my best to Ferrari in my last year with them is something I’ll always do, it’s difficult because doing 24 races you know you’re going to leave at the end of the year… especially knowing that I am a person who prefers to focus on medium and long-term projects, it seems to me, in a way, a challenge. And I went through some ups and downs.”he added.
“However, this does not change the fact that I will always try to maintain my best form for the team, for myself and, never say never in the future… but without a doubt, for the short and medium term future, I am 100% committed to the decision I made in the middle of this year and, to be honest, I’m looking forward to that challenge,” he said of Ferrari and Williams, his future team.
He didn’t think he was the favorite in Brazil
The Ferrari was the best car in Austin, a circuit where everyone expected McLaren and Mercedes to be first, and it was also the best car in Mexico. However, Carlos Sainz has preferred to keep expectations low ahead of this weekend’s Brazilian F1 GP. He wants to achieve another victory between now and the end of the year in his last 4 races with Ferrari before going to Williams, but he believes that Interlagos is not a favorable circuit for his car.
“It seems that Interlagos is not the strongest circuit for us, but seeing the characteristics of the corners, I hope that we can still be in the fight, and that means being in the top five, with a podium and, if there is chance. , fighting for success. I don’t think we do dominate, but we could still be in the fight. And when you’re there, with everything going on between Max (Verstappen) and Lando (Norris), you can be in a position to win and score.”.
“If there’s another chance, I’ll be the first to win”
Carlos believes that his car has taken a step forward with the introduction of a modified (although not new) front wing in Austin that allows them to put the setbacks they have on their car behind them.
“It’s a small step in terms of downforce, but it’s a bigger step in terms of available downforce. The car bounces less and is in a good operating window, which to me is what it should be do an F1 car. What we had in the middle of the season was not acceptable or pilotable,” he argued, happy for his victory in Mexico and with the hope of winning one more race of the 4 remaining.
“I think the important thing is that we got that win, and I started to feel a little pressure on myself, on my shoulders to try to get another one before the end of the year, so I’m very happy that we did it and that we did it the right way.” way I did it in Mexico, and happy that I met my family there, who has been a great support for me,” he commented.
“From now on, if there’s another chance, I’ll be the first to win. It’s not like right now I’m going to relax and take a vacation, I’m going to fight for every chance, but what’s important. The thing for me is to get one more before I leave,” he concluded.
Source: La Verdad
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