The podiums in career without a win rise to 11 Carlos Sainz, which at the moment is third in the very particular ranking of those drivers who have the most top-3 positions in their career without ever having achieved a success. If the Spaniard maintains the pace shown in Canada for the rest of the season and Ferrari supports him from the point of view of reliability, however, the common feeling is that the Madrid driver may be absolutely capable of taking the much-desired first career victory. . This weekend in Montreal he just missed the qualification. If he hadn’t made that mistake on the last corner yesterday, perhaps the # 55 of the redhead would have been able to get the better of Max Verstappen today.
Interviewed by Sky Sport F1 at the end of the race, the Ferrari driver also revealed a funny background. Speaking with him, in fact, Verstappen admitted that probably without the entry of the Safety Car in the final laps he would not have been able to recover after his second stop. “There was a chance to win – Sainz pointed out bluntly – it would have been interesting to see what would have happened without the last Safety Car. I was talking about it now with Max and he thinks he wouldn’t take me back. I was doing a nice rhythm. Then after the Safety Car I tried everything. I want this victory even more than all the fans at home. I tried everything to stay close to Max, but to pass a Red Bull you have to have a lot of speed. We were faster today, but not fast enough to get on track“.
Analyzing the complex of his Canadian weekend, Sainz remarked on his lack in qualification. The Spanish son of art, however, also explained that he finally felt completely at ease in the F1-75. “Today we just missed starting from the front. If I had started in the front row I would have gone away. I was faster than Max for the whole race. I was always one-two-tenths faster. Maybe even three at the end. This was the first time in the whole year that I felt the fastest on the track. Now at Silverstone I want to take another step forward. Nice feeling? No, I wanted to win. I want victory and today it was very close. Yesterday I made a mistake in qualifying, otherwise I would have started second and the race would have been even tighter. I thought Max was a tenth faster, but today from the laps to go to the grid I felt really good with the car. I quickly passed Alonso easily and told myself to push. I want to repeat all this on Saturday too“, He concluded.
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