Carlos Sainz insists there isn’t any frustration from his facet after Alex Albon overtook him within the Miami Grand Prix, regardless of a staff order to carry place.
Albon began forward of Sainz however dropped behind his teammate early within the race, re-passing the Spaniard into Flip 11 and happening to complete a powerful fifth. The Williams was fast all through the race however Sainz was battling flooring harm and ended up ninth, however doesn’t imagine the second with Albon was significantly important.
“Initially, because of some operational errors through the weekend, we had been compelled to start out on a used tire from qualifying whereas everybody round me was on a brand new, so I knew it was already going to place us within the again foot, shedding a few tenths per lap within the first [stint] in new versus used,” Sainz mentioned. “And from there, clearly, I attempted every thing to carry on the primary stint.
“I picked up harm at the beginning with Alex. Then he made a mistake. I managed to go him, then they advised us that we had been going freeze positions. Then, I don’t know if he acquired the message or not, however, mainly, he overtook me again.
“From there onwards, on that first stint, I simply tried to do every thing to remain involved with that group, holding on Charles [Leclerc] behind with a used tire and broken automobile.
“I believe I used to be the primary one in all that pitted, the VSC got here out, so it was a free cease for all of them, or sort of a brief cease for all of them, versus me, which meant clearly I acquired strain from them after the VSC.
“Had a number of good battles with the Ferraris. However with harm within the automobile I couldn’t keep near Sector 1 with all of the downforce and I couldn’t get the higher of them within the battles. However on the exhausting, the tempo was first rate, given the harm and the way early I pitted. However simply too many issues happening.”
Albon acknowledged he was given a message referring to engine temperatures – that might have meant he wanted to carry place – simply as he was lining up the go on Sainz, and the previous Ferrari driver was calm about discussing the incident post-race.
“No [frustration], for me, it’s solely clearly, if I’m advised within the radio that I’m not going to be attacked and we’re going to push collectively, to be overtaken, all the time, as a driver, you’re feeling silly, since you really feel powerless since you’re taking part in the great man.
“Identical means that I performed the great man in Jeddah and also you get overtaken and also you look utterly silly, nevertheless it’s the best way it goes. We’ll speak about it. I’m positive we’ll come out of it higher as a staff, and we are going to transfer on.”
There was additionally contact with Lewis Hamilton as Sainz tried to overhaul the Ferrari on the ultimate lap of the race, however after the stewards famous the transfer, no additional motion was taken, and Sainz was once more philosophical concerning the choice.
“Final lap, I clearly went for it as I noticed a spot and went for it. I believe he reacted a bit to my transfer, it caught him a bit unexpectedly and he began shifting to the left throughout braking, which if you happen to apply the rulebook to the letter you can’t do this as a result of that’s shifting underneath braking. However final lap, final nook, clearly everybody’s going to be a bit on the restrict.”
