F1: Saudi Arabia, a place of lousy memories for Carlos Sainz

The Spanish lived in Jeddah 2024 his worst weekend since he runs in the World Cup. “I had a bad time here last year,” he said in the previous fifth date of the year.

The 2024 Saudi Arabia Grand Prix will remain forever in the memory of Carlos Sainz. The Spaniard was still trying to assimilate the blow that had meant the news that his passage through Ferrari would end at the end of the year when he reached the second appointment in the fast and dangerous street of Jeddah. Since Thursday, the Spanish felt strong pain in the abdominal zone. As he could, he participated in the first two essay sessions on Friday, but the pain intensified. He had to go through the clinic and, a while later, he was operated on appendicitis. The Madrid, of course, would miss the rest of the weekend. A year later, already in Williams, Sainz is again in Saudi Arabia and his memories are not the best.

“I have no good memory of my last step here,” said the Spanish In the attention to the press prior to the beginning of the activity of the fifth date of 2025. “I talked to my people, I have such bad memories, I had a bad time here last year. From Thursday to Saturday I operated, I almost prefer not to remember it. Friday’s essays were very difficult … I hope this weekend to enjoy as much as possible. ”

Sainz is going through the period of knowledge to a new team. After four seasons with the Scuderia, a team with which he achieved his four victories in F1, the Spanish landed in Williams, seduced by the long -term project that Grove’s team has. The first four races were complicated and barely scored a point in the passage through China, while Alex Albon, his partner, accumulates 18.

The Spanish talked about how its progress was in the four disputed appointments “there are still things that I want to improve and refine in my handling and in the tuning of the car. We are still fighting a little with a balance problem, but we are investigating it to see what we can do with the configuration and the tools we have on the track, because in development I do not think we have opportunities to improve it,” he said. And he added: “I need more time to evaluate if I am better with the car, I need weekends with different circuits. My knowledge and understanding with the car is improving in every weekend and I find the things that the car must improve and I must improve. With that understanding we will take steps forward.”

As for Jeddah’s layout, in which he climbed into third place in the podium in 2022 (his best result), he said: “It should be a neutral circuit for us, nor good as Baréin or bad as China. As always, try to be at the limit of Q3 and be able to add those points. I am confident and you have to continue taking steps forward.”