Carlos Sainz is not looking up in Abu Dhabi after his horrific crash on Friday. He finished last in the third morning free practice this Saturday and failed to advance past the first round of qualifying; This is something that hasn’t happened to him since 2019. The Ferrari driver, who will start 16th on the grid this Sunday, finished the race extremely impressed. the accumulation of mistakes in a season-ending weekend.
“We got into trouble. “I left the garage very late on the last lap and when I started my lap everyone was finishing their laps and I couldn’t do the first and second sectors cleanly, there was too much traffic,” the Madrid driver apologized, against whom he will have no choice but to try to return to the race. A significant financial reward and every With four points at stake between the two teams, whether Ferrari can overtake Mercedes in the constructors’ second position today will depend on its contribution and Leclerc’s final result.
“The truth is we weren’t very fast all weekend, we suffered a lot with the soft tyres, but there was a lot of pace in the third quarter. In such a tight grid, you’re out with things like that.” “You pay a heavy price for every mistake, and that’s what happened to us too,” he lamented.
Carlos also ranks fourth as a driver. Tied with 200 points Fernando Alonso and nearby are Lando Norris (195) and Charles Leclerc (188). “We will give everything to come back as much as possible tomorrow. It is clear that things did not go well today, but the points will be scored tomorrow,” he warns. “Anyway, as you can imagine, I’m really angry because we could have done things so much better.”
Regarding his accident on Friday, he says: “It didn’t make me lose confidence because it was a deep corner. “It was just a bump, nothing to worry about.”