Carlos Sainz: “It will be like this until the end of the year and unfortunately, we have to survive with what we have”
He has been warning for months that we must look to the year 2027. Williams They started the 2026 season very badly due to the problems in the creation of their car that they had in winter, and they started the year with enormous excess weight and poor aerodynamics. Not even the few improvements introduced, already reaching the minimum weight in Bakuthey have been able to improve things a lot. His car took a step forward on a track with long straights like Azerbaijanbut then returned to its usual position, away from the points, as happened in Singapore, where Carlos Sainz was 14th this Sunday.
It didn’t matter that Carlos once again maximized the performance of his Williams in qualifying. Nor did he nail it with a very risky and aggressive start that placed him 10th.. Then he had battery problems, but it didn’t matter, because the pace of his car is not worth scoring and he was going to fall anyway in the position that determines the long-run pace of your car.
And Carlos warns: it will be like this until the end of the year. Just aim for Las Vegasfor its long straights, as an opportunity to perform better.
“No. Our best circuits are Baku (already passed) and Las Vegas and all the rest will be a bit of what we have seen in Malaysia and here. We do not have a car to score points, we are not going to have one until the end of the year and unfortunately we have to survive with what we have.”
We have to continue looking to 2027 with the goal of creating a much better car concept aerodynamically speaking, which does allow for good development.
Our best circuits are Baku (already past) and Las Vegas and all the rest will be a bit of what we have seen in Malaysia and here
Big output and battery problems
“Until the first lap everything was going incredible. After yesterday’s good qualifying I knew that today everything was about going well and making a good start and taking risks on the first lap. Starting with the soft tire and on the clean side I wanted to take risks to see if I could sneak into the points and hold on to them, and the truth is that I started very well,” commented Sainz on ‘DAZN’.
“And then from there I had problems with the battery in the first five laps and then, once the problem stabilized, we had no rhythm to score points today. So sooner or later they would have overtaken us and, unfortunately, we saw that the car had no rhythm today,” added the Spaniard.
“In the moments in which the driver can do something, which is in qualifying and at the start, the truth is that this weekend everything has gone very well, because in the moments in which I could make a difference, I have made it, but then, unfortunately, “When we all get into race rhythm, what each one has (the car) comes to light and we stay there,” He stood out on ‘ESPN’, highlighting his classification and exit, something that did not help him score either.
In the moments when the driver can do something, which is in qualifying and at the start, the truth is that this weekend everything went very well. In the moments when I could make a difference, I have made it
The FIA and its decisions
“I don’t know what’s going on this year with the FIA, because Williams and I in particular are dealing with everything ugly. We did Q1 of the sprint without power, and in qualifying they clearly impeded me on one lap and did not penalize me, when in Madrid they gave me 3 places without thinking about it, and the 5 places of the yellow flag in Baku, when I did raise it. I don’t know what’s happening this year, they’ve looked at us badly. But it is what it is. They are not taking away points from us, because we have so many problems with the car that we are not losing our lives in it either, but let’s hope that next year it won’t be like that.”
