“I don’t know why we don’t take risks like Russell”

WithArlos Sainz picked up where he left off, seventh, which is something not everyone can say among the big eight, and adding a great gift for Checo Perez’s collectionwhich he left behind when he went ahead. In general, he was dissatisfied with his strategy.

“It was a bit weird, we dealt with a tough moment well, even gained position with it, we had a really good rhythm and it seemed like a good stop looked good,” he continued.

“That’s how it really is I don’t know why we didn’t take the risk that Russell did in his second stint to stretch out the first game. because it had virtually no degradation so it was like a stop and a half of what I did, when setting up this media it cost us a little bit because it just didn’t work well in our machine.

Carlos explains it: “So for me it was either really push the hard section and do a short section at the end on the medium section, or just take the medium hard off first and do two optimal stops, stopping at 20 on the first section and doing 8 turns on the soft, I think medium A.In the end you didn’t do one optimal or two optimal things. And maybe that’s what cost us, but looking at the pace of the others today, to be honest it didn’t seem like much because McLaren was quicker.”he admits.

“I felt comfortable and fast all weekend and in the end we did those eight or nine laps at medium speed and we didn’t really maximise the pace we had in the last stint, I was quick and I had the pace,” he said, clearly frustrated, although he acknowledges Mercedes’ state.

“They show that it is difficult for any team to develop a car at the moment, and that what Mercedes have is good. We are two or three tenths behind McLaren and Red Bull, and lately we have been behind Mercedes, so “We need to improve in the second half of the season if we want to stay in contention.”