For Carlos Sainz HE Las Vegas Grand Prix It was a challenge, it kept coming back. Following an incident in first free practice when he crashed into a badly blocked drain at 318km7h, the Spaniard was penalized 10 places on the grid which ruined his second place in qualifying. And today, starting from 12th place, he dropped to 18th after losing control of his Ferrari at the start of the race on a very slippery tarmac and a very long straight. As a result, the Madrid player managed to bid farewell to the ‘city of casinos’ by overcoming all the obstacles of the weekend, taking sixth place and finishing fourth in the World Cup.
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“Getting back to sixth after almost the penultimate lap on the first lap limits the damage but it’s not bad.” Sainz said this with some resignation. The Spanish driver explained the problems he had to deal with from the beginning: “The first lap was like a lottery, there were cold tires and oil stains on the inside of the first corner. There was that white product. We collected them.” We were passing inside and blocked the tires, something to check, because the fact that an hour before the race we had to pass through an area full of oil, with cars that had left it there, is something to check. Develop for the future.
“Unfortunately I had to start from 12th and had a typical problem on the first lap, so we couldn’t make Verstappen’s job any harder on a weekend when it looked like we could stand up to the Ferraris,” Carlos said. Faced with a race that was very difficult to control, he said, “Once again we had a few problems with the engine temperature and I had to be very careful about that and about ‘graining’. I couldn’t attack that much. I would have loved to come back and I would have pushed.”
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One of the most important factors in the Las Vegas event The problem was the tyres, and Sainz knew this was one of Ferrari’s weak points: “Hard tires always cost us a lot and today there were veins front and rear, it was a very tough race where the tires were difficult for us.”
For future versions, Carlos also asked for safety changes: “This straight takes a little long, we come with cold wheels and there are moments when you don’t know whether the car will stop or not.” 11-12 when Lando Norris crashed. I was going to change the corner. It’s quite dangerous and maybe they need to make some adjustments for the future. “The rest is more of a racing track than a classification track,” he emphasized.