Sainz dismissed that notion, although it was clear that there were moments at Albert Park and Imola where he didn’t respond well to setbacks outside of his control. “It is maybe the first time in his career that he’s got a car which is fast enough to compete for the best positions, and he simply needs to get used to that.”
“That’s a matter of managing the pressure,” said Binotto. Team principal Mattia Binotto suggested the pressure was getting to him. He still wasn’t in tune with the car and he was well aware that he wasn’t maximising the opportunity of being in a winning car for the first time in his F1 career. Troubling as the mishaps in Australia and Italy were, they weren’t Sainz’s main difficulty. That was followed by a crash in Q2 at Imola then an early exit from the grand prix when he was hit by Daniel Ricciardo on the first lap. He spun on the grass and ended up in the gravel at the exit of Turn 10. He then made a misjudged attempt to pass Yuki Tsunoda on the first lap that relegated him to 14th before understeering off at Turn 9 in Valtteri Bottas’s wake having just passed Mick Schumacher. That left him ninth on the grid, with a bad launch caused by a late change of steering wheel to one with the wrong settings dropping him to 13th. In Australia, he was in the mix for pole position but a red flag deployed seconds before he crossed the line to finish his first flying lap then a problem firing up his car after the stoppage, leaving him with no time for an extra preparation lap, meant he had to complete a lap on “freezing” tyres. As Sainz put it, the weekend allowed him to “understand fully the magnitude” of his struggles with the car.
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He took a solid third in the race having jumped Sergio Perez, who lost out thanks to a badly-timed safety car, but realistically he was the weakest of the Red Bull and Ferrari drivers in Jeddah. But he couldn’t improve on fresh softs, falling two tenths of a second behind Leclerc. In Saudi Arabia, Sainz made “a bit of progress” and again looked a pole position threat – setting the pace in Q1, Q2 and on the first Q3 runs on scrubbed softs.
“As a Ferrari driver, it’s been my most difficult weekend and it just shows that I need to put my head down, understand this car, understand where Charles is making the difference with his driving and the way he’s approaching the corners and driving the tyres.” “In FP1, FP2 and FP3 I was very far behind, the most far that I’ve been ever in Ferrari and that’s why even with a 1-2 I’m not entirely happy with the weekend,” said Sainz after the Bahrain GP. On paper, his season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix weekend wasn’t too bad: third in qualifying, 0.129s off Leclerc and a genuine pole threat then second place in the race, albeit after Max Verstappen’s retirement.īut Sainz accepted he had “homework” to do and recognised that he was in a very different situation to the one he faced during his strong first year with Ferrari. Sainz was very frank about his struggles early in the year. “I’ve come from a tough first half of the season and now it looks like I’m finding my groove around this car and starting to be very quick, which is good news.” “We have to keep in mind where we’re coming from,” said Sainz shortly after Hungary qualifying. He turned that around later in the first half of the season, stringing together a stronger run of form in the run up to the summer break. Sainz began the year struggling to get the best out of the Ferrari F1-75, falling into a number two role while Charles Leclerc led the way.
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After throwing away a second Formula 1 pole position in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix, Carlos Sainz was disappointed.īut despite his frustration that only his rear-end snap at Turn 5 had let George Russell top qualifying, the Ferrari driver could see the bigger picture given how his 2022 season started.
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