Sainz: “He complained and got what he wanted, that they penalized me. Nothing will happen between me and Alonso, we will forget it quickly”

Carlos Sainz he downplayed his touch Fernando Alonsowhich later cost him a 5-second penalty that he considered “unnecessary” due to the nature of the curve in which contact occurred that caused damage to the Oviedo’s front wing.

The Madrid native, when asked M.D.wanted to make it clear that this incident will not change his relationship with the man from Oviedo: “We will forget it quickly.” And as for the sanction, he considered that the man from Oviedo provoked it with his comments on the radio, something that, on the other hand, all drivers usually do to get a position.

Race summary

“It was a race in which on the first lap we had to take risks, we had to try to recover positions. In this case it went very well, I think I overtook three or four at the start and then turn one, everyone with the hard tire at the back, there was a lot of traffic jams and during braking I lost a bit in the car, I touched Yuki and that damaged my floor and from then on I did the entire race with the damaged floor. I lost almost a second per lap of dynamic load with the damaged floor, so You can imagine that around here, with how bad the car is and on top of that with the lack of ground load, it was suffering a lot to have it on the track and in the end we had to retire because the car was terrible.”

The touch to Alonso

“Honestly, I think that the type of curve there in Turn 5 encourages you to make contacts because at the end there is a tremendous funnel between the curve turning to the right and the peak (outside), I think there have been quite a few incidents in F2, in F3 there and it is a curve that does not allow you to go two in parallel and in fact I think that Fernando has never managed to get parallel with me and we have reached that corner, we have touched each other, he opened the radio, he complained, he got me penalized, so in the end it’s what I wanted, I imagine, what has been achieved and nothing, we were going to finish 16th anyway, so it didn’t change the matter much.

Do you understand the penalty? Will everything be okay after this?

“Yes, nothing will happen with Fernando because in the end they are race incidents that we will surely forget quickly, but yes, in my opinion, the sanction is unnecessary, but it is what it is.”

Madring’s debut

“Yes, let’s see, you have to think that even today with a perfect race where I start well, there is no damage and I have the race of my life, today I finish sixteenth, so it is not that we have missed here the opportunity to get a great result for the car this year… this weekend we were more than half a second behind Haas, which was the next car in the middle zone. A shame, but really, proud of the GP that Madrid has managed to organize first. It is the first year and I think it is, by far, one of the best first years of a Grand Prix in the last ten years and I think Madrid has done an incredible job.

Changes in the circuit so that there are overtaking

“The only problem we have is that there is no overtaking point and now that is why the drivers, the FIA ​​and the circuit will try to work to find an overtaking point for the circuit.”

“In the ideal world I think we would have to try to find something in turn 5, if it is not in turn 5 we have to see something in turn 1 and if it is not in turn 1 we have to see something in turn 13, but it is clear that turn 5 is the place where there are more options after a long straight that there could be overtaking, but it is something that, I insist: I have not discussed it yet with the circuit or with the FIA and it is something that the drivers will now give feedback and we will try to find a solution. solution”.

A better result in 2027 at Madring?

“We’d better. This weekend has been a disaster. In the end, being out in Q1, not having a car to even fight for the points is something I don’t like and I wouldn’t like it to ever happen again here in Madrid so, as a team, we will try to do everything possible so that it doesn’t happen again.”