Sainz: 'It was pure luck that they didn't hit me, you can't see anything'

The Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), who had started third and had to leave, after crashing in the first lap of the Japanese Grand Prix, the eighteenth of the Formula One World Championship -interrupted, with a red flag, in the rainy Suzuka-, declared that “If you don’t see anything, you’re telling fate to do what it wants” and that it was “pure luck that they didn’t” “give him”.

“I don’t know what they want to do, but the track and the (null) visibility were impracticable,” said Sainz, 28, who has just finished third in Singapore and who before the race was fifth in the World Championship.

“It is clear that if the pilots do not see anything, you are telling fate to do what comes to mind, on a day like today; because the 18 pilots who were behind me have not even seen me,” he declared this Sunday, in Suzuka, to the television channel Dazn, the Spanish of Ferrari.

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“It was pure luck that they didn’t hit me”, said Sainz, who this season achieved his first victory in F1, by winning the British Grand Prix at the legendary Silverstone (England).

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“The thing is at the limit and I hope they make the right decision,” said the Spaniard from Ferrari, who has climbed fourteen times on the podium in the premier class, eight of them this season.

Driver reactions to a crane on the runway

Most of the Formula One World Championship drivers have reacted by expressing their anger at the “unacceptable” presence of a crane on the track during the Japanese Grand Prix, the eighteenth of the championship, which was interrupted, with a red flag, in rainy Suzuka, where he planned the ghost of the accident that ended up costing the life of Frenchman Jules Bianchi, who crashed into an extractor tractor on this track eight years ago.

Convincing were the letters from the Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren) – “what a fuck… does a crane on the track” – and the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), who wrote on a social network: “How can we make it clear that we never want to see a crane on the track? We lost Jules (Bianchi) because of that mistake. What happened today is totally unacceptable! I hope this is the last time I see a crane on the track.”

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The late Bianchi’s own father, also issued a message of rejection for the presence of that crane in rainy Suzuka, where her son, who died nine months after falling into a coma, suffered the tragic accident that cost him his life.

Minutes later, the race resumed under unfavorable weather conditions due to torrential rain falling on the track.