Carlos Sainz appeared at the first official assembly during the next Lewis Hamilton and Andrea Kimi Antonelli. This is not an accident. F1 would like to sit in one of the major protagonists of this course, the British, at its premiere at Ferrarinext to the pilot he replaced Maranello and the young man who comforted the Mercedes. The Spanish, the last winner of F1 in Australia in 2024 wearing red, returned to Albert Park with different expectations. He knew he would not fight for success, though he prefers not to talk about the results waiting to see the true performance of cars in free training. However, two priorities are marked for this new challenge in the picture of Grove: A first good goal as a team, and another personally.
“What do I expect? Keep developing and improving as a team. And personally, quickly adapting to the team will be successful, joining a team always needs team adaptation time and with challenges and it’s something I can do quickly and well, I wish”.
“Results? I’d rather miss two or three races to see where the car is and see what I can fight, if I fight for Q2, Q3, points, no points … And then I’ll make up what’s going to be a good time and try to achieve these goals. But before seeing where the car is almost impossible to mark a goal in terms of position in championship and points and that’s all, ”added Madrid’s pilot.
He was then asked about the result where he would be happy with Williams on his first date. “It is very difficult to answer this question. After the free 2 maybe I can tell you more where we may be because you begin to understand if you are the 5th of the 7th, or 8th team and there you set a little more of the racing expectations. But without knowing it … I don’t know … a top-10? Among the 10 best can be a good result, but maybe we don’t even come to that, or maybe at 10 best is not enough to be optimistic. We need to adapt the expectations. Let’s talk after free 2. But yes, I don’t think success is possible last year, ”he explained.
The no doubt is when determining his good start of sensations in his new set and his new car, where he ended at the best time of Bahrain’s preseason tests, though it was clear that this result was not true due to the greatest potentially dominant teams.
“This is a very positive start. The positive start started in Abu Dhabi (in the post season of 2024), once I got in the car and started working with people who would work this year. I found a team full of motivation and the people who wanted to go back to Williams and the car didn’t disappoint me. This is a great test in Abu Dhabi, we have a great winter of development and obviously we have tried to start strong this year. We have positive trials, but that said, I don’t know if we would be second or half the leaders. I look forward to showing development and that’s the word this year, we look forward to showing development and seeing where we will end ”.
Williams get 8 races to score in 2024
“I hope not, but you don’t know this sport. Without a doubt, I will try to score as soon as possible, but I don’t know when we can do it. I also don’t believe this statistics are the most important. To develop and be more competitive, press where we failed last year … We tried reliability, weight, simple things that Williams didn’t find the key. I say when I say the development.
About Leclerc, his former partner in Ferrari
“I think Charles Leclerc has done a good job when representing Ferrari’s colors and brands in the last 6 or 7 years of his career. I don’t think he should talk about his talent and speed because everyone knows. But about how it acts and how everyone treats the team and how the Ferrari brand takes place, it’s part of the growth of Ferrari who has seen it. Ambassador to him and did a great job and moved forward as a pilot and as a man of these people.
Source: La Verdad
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