An exit from the track that led him to cross the grass at high speed and end up stuck in the gravel condemned a Carlos Sainz who has experienced his first retirement dressed in red since making his debut with Ferrari last year.
A succession of misfortunes already in the qualifying session they made Carlos Sainz’s weekend start off crooked: a safety time eliminated by an untimely red flag, added to the fact that his F1-75 did not start at the moment of truth minutes later, they forced him to start the race in an unusual position for him in his new stage with Ferrari.
Everything was going to get better on Sunday… or so #55 thought before misfortune struck him again. «Everything has been complicated since the start: we have had a problem with the steering wheel again, I had to change it before leaving, “explained Sainz.
«It was not configured correctly, I had a problem with anti-stall at the exit because a button was not well placed. I didn’t read the clutch well, the torque in the exit, and we have had problems in the pre-exit and in the exit that have cost us several positions, ”continued detailing the Spanish.
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However, the final failure and what made him see himself out of the race after just two laps was his mistake that he made when trying to recover positions with frozen hard tires.
Since then I have tried risk with a hard wheel that was cold, and clearly I have made a mistake that has cost us the spin and to retire. Weekend to forget, problems yesterday and today with things that we have to try not to happen again. For my part, a negative weekend due to the mistake I made today,” Sainz revealed.
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“Clearly on the weekend everything has gone wrong, so of course it’s hard to acceptbecause we have had many things against us and in the end, for trying… perhaps, to go back too far, in a bit of a hurry, for trying to go forward with a wheel that still wouldn’t let me push… well, perhaps it has been My mistake,” he continued.
After three races so far in 2022, two podiums and one retirement are the baggage of a Sainz who is already third in the drivers’ championshipbehind his teammate Charles Leclerc and a George Russell who ended up on the podium in Australia.
«It is clear that the fast car is going, this weekend I have felt more comfortable, and we will have to take advantage of it»
«The fact is that you have to be more perfect, and this weekend has been the opposite. We will try to recover learn from what we have done wrong and come back better. It is clear that the fast car is going, this weekend I have felt more comfortable, and we will have to take advantage of it. There are still 20 races ahead of us, there is a world left, but we have to try to be more perfect”, concluded Sainz.