Cruel ending for Sainz: “It wasn’t a good end of the year for me”

Carlos Sainz They went into the final race tied on points. Fernando Alonso 4th place in F1 World Cuphas an advantage of 5 points compared to . norris had to be competitive abu dhabi He is 12 points behind teammate Charles Leclerc. He could have reached this final event with even more points if a poorly repaired sewer cap in Las Vegas hadn’t robbed him of his chance to fight for a win in the penultimate event of the year. It should be. He wanted to make up for it in his last race, but everything went wrong. For his part, he wasn’t comfortable and didn’t have a rhythm. However, poor team strategy in Q1 meant he made a decisive lap in traffic and finished 16th.

And this Sunday, he dropped from 4th to 7th place in the World Championship as a result of a race lacking speed, but also because he started the race on hard rubber at the beginning, which did not work until the end, so the strategy he chose was the best. I didn’t think so. Year. .These two races Carlos lost a huge opportunity to achieve his best result in the F1 World Championship, 4th place overall would have meant a lot., not only was he able to surpass Leclerc for the first time in three years. Also because of how he was able to achieve it.

Carlos, who had difficulty adapting to the single-seater regulations announced last year, seemed to be getting used to the car from the beginning of the course. And most weekends he was the better racer. For much of the course, he guided the team’s efforts to find the right settings for the car. He took pole position at Monza, where he finished on the podium for Ferrari and withstood Leclerc’s final harassment perfectly. did They also took pole position in Singapore and achieved the only non-Red Bull victory of the year at Marina Bay. He was ahead of Charles all year in the World Cup. But that wasn’t enough.

In Las Vegas and Brazil, Charles’ great performances, along with Carlos’ bad luck in the American competition and the fast pace in this final competition, had cruel consequences for Carlos. It will taint their work and consistent performance throughout the course.

“The end of the season was never good for me. The last two races since Las Vegas didn’t go the way I expected and wanted. And the truth is that I lost out in the first stint because of the hard tires, but the tires didn’t make any progress and the wheels didn’t hold up as well as expected. And the truth is that we have suffered a lot with those tires,” he commented, hurt by what happened on DAZN F1.

“Throughout the year, putting on hard tires in the first stint always resulted in bad results, and the same thing happened to us today. I don’t know why that happens with our car. We can’t do what others are doing, so we need to analyze why. And to be honest, once I lost the first stint, there wasn’t much to fight for,” he added about his chosen strategy.

“If my first stint doesn’t go well and I’m out of points, The only option to get to the point was for the “safety car” to come out, but we ended up drifting a bit to see if that “safety car” would help us . And there was no such thing. It’s clear it’s not working. “We’ve been trying things that haven’t happened. We’ve tried things that weren’t happening, basically left it to chance, and it was the first stint that didn’t work out,” he added.

But Carlos Sainz is intent on keeping his head up and focusing on the many positive things he has achieved this year. Of course starting this Monday.

“There are a lot of positive things that are very difficult to think about now, because these two races were very difficult races for me and nothing turned out the way I wanted.. So it’s difficult to think positively now, When I go to sleep and wake up tomorrow feeling a little better, I focus on the positive. I think that’s certainly true.” concluded the Madrid native.