Sainz didn’t know he made the pole: That’s how they warned him

“P1, I confirm! Great!”, The track engineer told Carlos Sainz on the radio. “P1, ‘baby’. Did you enjoy it?” He repeated. Carlos Sainz responded between laughter and some swearing, the result of emotion, but how much he suffered at the start of the course for this day that has finally come. It is also the result of unbelief. And it’s that as Carlos himself met later, he doesn’t believe this turn will get him pole position. “I didn’t expect this pole position! I felt terrible out there. How did I make P1?”asked the Spaniard who was still incredulous.

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“P1! We have reached. You are a ‘Smooth Operator'”, they replied to the pilot. “Yes, that’s right,” Carlos added without stopping the laughter. He did it. After 9 races of many struggles to adapt to his Ferrari and change his driving style to get the necessary confidence he lacked to fight it all, the Spaniard achieved the first pillar of his life. He did it on the hardest day, in very complex and changing conditions, but more importantly, after a turn where he ran out of battery straight back.

“Booah! It was a very difficult session. The track was super complicated and you always thought you were the one suffering the most. And then others saw that they were suffering the same or more than me on tires with that amount of water on the track ”the Spanish driver pointed to the ‘DAZN F1’ before revealing his problem in the middle of the turn.

“Honestly, it’s very complicated even if the car is on the track without spinning and doing nothing, but then the lap is clean, there aren’t a lot of mistakes that are always made here. But I’m missing a lot of batteries in the back straight…. I had a battery and I lost two or three tenths straight, I think, and I thought it wouldn’t be enough. But the lap has to be pretty good for it to be worth it. ” Carlos.