Sainz: “The last thing you want is to end up in contact with a teammate.” It’s a shame”
“It has been a very complicated week, we lacked rhythm in general,” said Carlos Sainz at the end of a Netherlands GP in which your Williams was once again far from the points and ended in the worst way, with a touch from Carlos Sainz to his teammate Alex Albon in braking that, obviously, he never wanted to have.
“And in the end, with a hard used tire, which was already on its last legs, I was going to defend myself from Alex Albon in the first corner and a giant bump in the braking, that the further inside you go and the further inside you brake, the car hits you down. You block from the front, and I wore it, so it’s a shame, because when you’re fighting for position the last thing you want is to end up in contact with a teammate“he said about an accident for which he apologized to Alex and the Williams team.
“It’s a chore, but it shows how much we are suffering as a team this weekend, and in the position we are in, which is very bad,” he added in his race summary.
Any positives from the weekend?
“On a personal level there is not much positive, on a team level, the tests we have done with the parts we put in the car, by changing several parts, I think we are going to reach a conclusion that helps us and shows us a light on where to direct the development.”
Unimproved car to Baku
“More than gritting our teeth, we must use these two races to test improvement. We must get out of the comfort zone to try things that we are interested in understanding, and when the time comes for improvement, hopefully we will be closer and have more fun with those in front.”
The strategy
“There was no strategy, we were not going fast, and when you don’t go fast there is no strategy.”
very bad weekend
“It has been a very bad weekend. I have not been comfortable with the car, in the second session I was on the hard tire and was going much faster, but, in general, we must come to the conclusion of this weekend with the consistency of some parts of the car.
