Carlos Sainz was struck by bad luck at F1 Qatar GP. He was riding in a comfortable sixth position, when on lap 35, the Madrid driver suffered a puncture, possibly caused by damaged rubber or pieces scattered on the straight. Valtteri Bottas stepped on one of the mirrors Albonthat stayed on track.
The Spaniard revealed that he felt the puncture later, in the last corner, with the bad luck that he could not enter the pits, so it has to go around on three wheels, which damages the car. So, the subsequent stop was very slow because the front jack did not fit well enough to lift the car. AND To make matters worse, when Sainz returned to the track, the ‘Safety Car’ enteredso his rivals were able to enter the pits free to stop, gaining time over the Spaniard.
Despite this, the Madrid native managed to finish 6th. He tried to go for 5th, but his car was badly damaged and he could not increase his points haul. His teammate Leclerc had the luck that Carlos lacked and managed to finish 2nd after a bad stop by Russell and a penalty by Norris.
“The puncture may have been due to pieces on the track, but the truth is that I felt the puncture before the last corner and I don’t think there was any dirt there. It could have been anything, so I don’t want to be blamed if I didn’t know.”commented to ‘ESPN’ about the cause of his problems.
“We lost a lot of time. We are in a good position to get a lot of points now, but a puncture around the last corner, which didn’t give me time to stop, and then, a whole lap with a puncture, I lost many seconds, the car probably broke, because everything fell, and then on top of that when we left the pit lane without a hole, The ‘Safety Car’ came out and the others took advantage of the safety car to stop and we were far behind. But that’s racing. There are days when luck smiles on you, and certainly not on us today. We’ve lost a lot of points but that’s it and now we have to think about Abu Dhabi,” he added to ‘DAZN’.
“Everything happened to us. The car didn’t go well at the end of the race where it could have finished 5th, we had a lot of damage in the pit, but I tried everything.I gave everything and in the end I could only finish 6th, which is the position in which I started. If they tell you that you’re going to start on the 6th, that you’re going to have a puncture and that you’re going to finish on the 6th, with everything that happened, you think of it that way and it’s not a bad day. But today we didn’t get four or six points which still hurts later.”argument.
Battle for the World Cup of Constructors
“I said yesterday that we have to wait until the end of the race to judge. Nobody expected us to shave points off McLaren here. Thank goodness Charles had a solid race without any problems and that allowed us to make the most of today. And meanwhile, I, Despite all the problems I had, I finished in 6th place and we got points, so at the end of the day it wasn’t that bad.”he finally added about the fight for the Constructors’ World Championship with McLaren after a race in which Ferrari took 9 points from Woking, leaving them on 21 before the final race in Abu Dhabi, if where Ferrari is usually good.
Source: La Verdad
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