The moment that ruined the chances of Sainz’s victory in Monaco

Carlos Sainz I wasn’t happy at all. It’s not a bad thing to be second in Monaco for the second year in a row, but the Madrid guy finds out that he has won his first F1 victory and missed a big chance to succeed in a mythical place like Monaco. Was there. Because it was bent.

The Spaniards modified his team’s strategy on the radio and asked his teammate Leclerc and two Red Bulls not to come in to take a break when they were already doing so. He knew that this strategy would leave him in fourth place. I was thinking clearly before the race. His plan was to pull extreme rain tires to extend their lifespan and to wear dry tires directly to save intermediate stops. Everything went well, but at the most decisive moment, when he returned to the court dry, he met Latifi when he had to shoot the most. Latifi did not leave despite doubling.

Judging from the video from Sainz’s own helmet and the Spanish radio, the frustration remains until Alex arrives at the tunnel, despite being shown the blue flag many times (to let Sainz pass). It was great to see it. Shortly thereafter, Perez stopped wearing dry tires and re-entered the track in first place, just one second before Sainz.

“Everything went well today. Taking risks with extremes (rain tires) until I put on the dry tires worked very well. It gave me the opportunity to fight for victory. After the stop. There was a problem with the unremoved bends in the two sectors because I won when I had to start first. ”

“I did the first and second sectors behind Williams, but it took a few seconds to win today. That was a real job. But these are things that can happen in this sport.” Carlos said. I added Latifi without personally naming it.

Exactly others WilliamsOne of Alex Alban, I did the same with Leclerc. In this case, former Red Bull said he couldn’t get through Charles because he was faster than Monaco. “Starting with slick tires, it’s difficult because the pace advantage was great. It took three corners to get him through, and then he was fast enough to overtake him again.“Albon said about not letting Leclerc..