In Spain, great prominence was given to the part of Mattia Binotto’s end-of-year press conference dedicated to Carlos Sainz, and in particular the chapter dedicated to the balance of power between the Madrid driver and Charles Leclerc. The Prancing Horse team principal reiterated – as he did at the beginning of the season – that “The priority is the team and who will be first or second driver will decide the track”. Binotto’s thought was reiterated by Sainz, on the sidelines of the kart event sponsored by Estrella Galicia: “Ferrari doesn’t care who is in front, it’s a detail. What matters is that we can both score many points. There is no leader in Ferrari, we started on an equal footing. Last year I was not believed, but in fact it was proved. We are two good drivers whose goal is to bring the team where we want, or to go back to winning as soon as possible “.
The 27-year-old Castilian then spoke about the 2022 car: “I had the opportunity to try it on the simulator, it is very different both in the driving and in the forms. It will be difficult to drive, quite different, it will be fast, not as far as we thought from 2021. But it will be hard to drive. I would like to fight to be at the top with Ferrari and I’d like to experience the feeling of fighting for my first win“. Sainz also spoke of the Abu Dhabi race, which closed in third place behind duelists Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton: “I would have liked to have seen that battle up close. It could have been my first F1 win, but there were lapsed out of the way and I didn’t get to see their fight. It was a shame, because in the event of an accident I would have won the race. These are things that F1 will have to analyze“. The Ferrari driver concluded with a joke, reported by As: “We didn’t talk much on the podium, but the word ‘robbery’ didn’t come outSainz joked.
#Sainz #Leclerc #Ferrari #leader #equal #FormulaPassionit