Sainz still believes: "is near"

He wanted to continue to fight until the very end. Carlos Sainz received a severe blow to the last Austrian GP when he saw how his machine was ferrari left him lying. Arrived at Spielberg 11 points from Leclerc and had options to continue the fight to complete a comfortable one-two from Ferrari, but eventually left that race 75 points behind the leader, Max Verstappenand to the Italian press asking with such a distance ferrari I have given all power to Charles Leclerc in his struggle Max. However, Carlos is not losing courage and believes it is too early to make any conclusions about his choices.

“If we look at my performance in the last four or five seasons, I’ve always performed better in the second half of the season, so we still have to wait and see what happens.”directed Carlos in ‘Sky Sports’ statements. The pilot from Madrid ferrari He is confident that he will continue the positive trend he has accumulated since Monaco, and his results from the final seasons in the second half of the year make him even more confident, in addition to the confidence and speed he has shown. since being assigned to the Principality.

“I said it was too early at the beginning of the year, with the second in Bahrain, when everyone predicted an easy year. I said it after my worst moment in Barcelona and I keep saying it today”, He added. “It’s too early to predict, although I understand that there are people who might think, because it’s not the easiest start of the season,” Sainz said.

You have to remember the comebacks he starred in Carlos Sainz in his two years at McLaren (2019 and 2020), or last year, where he was able to beat his teammate Charles Leclerc in total world in his first year at ferrari with a good ending of course. An example of this is his podiums, as he added three to his four 2021 drawers in the second half of the year.

This season, due to the change in vehicle regulations in 2022, Carlos Sainz he found a competitive car but one that didn’t fit his driving style. He realized this from the trials, and since then he has worked relentlessly, improving step by step, to change things in his driving style and internalize them in his driving so that he has the confidence that attack and achieve the last tenth he must fight all. Despite this, he was first fighting for pole positions.

Sa Monaco She started to get more comfortable with him ferrari and that was noticeable in a race where just one lap not leaving with the blue flags deprived him of victory. sainz had to leave later standard for a problem with his vehicle. He was about to win again in Canada after last chasing Verstappen in a Ferrari with better speed, and finally, at Silverstone, came his first pole position and his first win. In Austria, Sainz was left without a thousandth pole and would have been second when his car caught fire. But stay confident. He wants to fight for everything.