Carlos Sainz will start third this Sunday in his last race with the Ferrari to close 4 years wearing red. The Madrid native leaves with the clear intention of saying goodbye to the greats Maranello in style, taking victory in this course’s final event before packing his bags for Williams. However, he believes McLaren is “one step ahead” in race pace as it was in qualifying on Saturday, where when they put the rest of Q3 in, the two orange cars dominated the first row.
“The objective is that, to win this Sunday. It’s going to be complicated because today we saw a very dominant and very good McLaren on one lap again and we already saw on Friday that in the race pace they are just as fast. So it’s going to be complicated. We put ourselves in a good position and it was not easy, with everything very tight and all the cars in the same tenth, with Hülkenberg, Verstappen, Mercedes… all very tight. So now we have to focus on putting it all together tomorrow, make a good start and see if we can fight for victory.”argued with Carlos Sainz on ‘DAZN’.
Carlos will be out for the win and with the aim of putting pressure on the McLarens so they can make some mistakes that will give Ferrari more options to fight for a Constructors’ World Championship that is heavily against them. Ferrari have to cut 21 points off McLaren this Sunday and the two red cars start at the back. But not only that, Leclerc would start last due to his 10-position penalty and failure in qualifying saw his final Q2 lap scrapped for exceeding track limits. For this reason, Sainz considers that Ferrari needs a miracle.
The Constructors’ World Cup is getting away
“The Constructors’ World Championship is a bit of a miracle. It’s just before getting to Abu Dhabi, we need a bit of a miracle. It was even more so after Leclerc was penalized 10 places. AND Now with the qualy problem (from Leclerc) everything has become more complicated. But Chales will not give up, I will not give up and the team will not give up. So you have to run the races and then see what happens. I already said in Qatar, that we still cut points and we did it and see if it will happen again tomorrow,” he added, without losing hope.
Last qualifying at Ferrari
“It was a good quality,” he said of his final test at Ferrari. “I did a very good lap in Q1 and good laps in Q2 and Q3. Two tenths behind the McLaren who were 4 tenths ahead. Lando’s lap wasn’t perfect, and mine probably wasn’t either, but we’re there. Tomorrow there will be go to it.”
Winning options
Looking ahead to the race, the weather pattern suggests that Ferrari usually has good pace on Sunday and good tire wear management. ““All we’re left with is suddenly our car is better at race speed and breakdown.”Carlos pointed out in this matter to ‘Fox Sports’.
“This weekend we only did 8 laps in a row and tomorrow we have to do 20 with the same tire. So we have to wait and see what happens tomorrow when degradation really starts to cause damage. But still, what we saw yesterday tells us that McLaren is a step ahead.”he finished.
Source: La Verdad
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