Slightly enraged at not being able to enjoy a good starting position at Ferrari’s home GP, Carlos Sainz contributed to the interests of his team by hoping to make up many positions in the race from the back of the grid.
Second grand prix of the season after the one in France in which Carlos Sainz has to face a race from the bottom of the grid for accumulate penalties due to modifications in the elements of its power unit, second grand prix in which a more relaxed version of the #55 can be seen.
When you have (almost) nothing to losethe Spanish driver of Scuderia Ferrari seems to take a great weight off his shoulders and uncover his talent from minute 1, and his performance in the Monza classification, before the stands full of tifosi, attests to this.
“I’m not going to lie: it hurts to start so far back tomorrow”
After each and every one of the members of Q3 had made their first attempt, Sainz kept a pole positionvirtual that went down in history once his teammate and Max Verstappen went for the final lap, relegating him to a third position that penalties would make sterile.
Even so, Sainz closed the last round of the classification with the best records in both the first and third sectors, showing that the work done by the Maranello team to find what they have lost since Hungaryhas borne fruit.
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«It was a very good classificationI have pushed hard in Q1, Q2 and Q3”, Sainz confessed as soon as he got out of an F1-75 that finally seems to perform as it did before finishing the first half of the season, or at least in a very similar way.
“The only problem is that I had no slipstream in Q3and that is what it has cost me those 2-3 tenths to be able to fight for the pole», he acknowledged. Taking into account that the final distance with respect to Charles Leclerc was 268 thousandths, the Madrid native can be satisfied at Ferrari’s house.
“I was going to go last anyway, so nothing changes for me. It was a very good lap, I had to risk a lot to make up for the lack of slipstream. It was very fast in the corners but slow on the straights, I couldn’t do much », he continued.
And in the race… what? “I’m not going to lie: it hurts to start so far back tomorrow, especially with how competitive the car has been this weekend and how good I feel about it, especially now, after the qualy», he explained. “Knowing that I leave so far behind… I will try to put on a good show, do my best and come back, because the pace is there, but I would like to be up on the grid with Charles to try get a brace for the tifosi» Sainz concluded.