During the sprint in Sao Paulo, Charles Leclerc managed to hold on to third position for quite some time, but Max Verstappen got ahead of him six laps before the finish. Carlos Sainz finished 5th in Saturday’s short race.
Charles Leclerc (4th): “At the start of the race I attacked like crazy, trying to put pressure on McLaren, because I realized I had little to lose and wanted to make full use of the tire resources. But it is clear that nothing came of this.
However, everything is fine, this will be a lesson for me and in tomorrow’s Grand Prix we will try to perform better. Today we could have claimed a maximum of third place, but we missed the opportunity to earn one more point, but the situation is what it is.”
Carlos Sainz (5th): “The point is that we made too many mistakes from the start, the balance of the car is far from optimal and this weekend we are clearly inferior to McLaren and Red Bull.
In preparation for qualifying we must try to make the car work more efficiently so that our chances in tomorrow’s race are better than in the sprint. But for now, things aren’t easy for us.
Although we lost a few tenths in yesterday’s qualifying, we expected that we would be able to get closer to the leaders in the race, but because it was not easy to drive, we made mistakes in the first laps and also lost. a lot of time. And when I found out what was going on, it was already too late.”
Source: F1 News
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