After his terrifying accident on Friday, Carlos Sainz does not lift his head in Abu Dhabi. He finished last in the third morning free practice this Saturday and has not passed the first round of qualifying, something that has not happened to him since 2019. The Ferrari driver, who will start 16th on the grid this Sunday, has finished very affected by an accumulation of errors in a weekend that closes the season.
Classification and starting grid of the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi GP, with Alonso 7th and Sainz 16th
“We alone got into trouble. I left the garage very late on the last lap and it happened that when I started my lap, everyone was finishing their laps and I couldn’t do a clean first and second sector, there was a lot of traffic,” the Madrid native apologized, to whom he didn’t He will have no choice but to try to come back in the race. And it will depend on his contribution and Leclerc’s final result whether Ferrari can surpass Mercedes in the constructors’ runners-up position today, with an important financial prize at stake and four points between both teams.
Alonso does not think about the championship: “It doesn’t matter how it ends, in 2023 I will stay with the fact that I have been competitive”
“The truth is that we have not been very fast all weekend, we have suffered a lot with the soft tires, although there was plenty of pace to be in Q3. With such a tight grid, with things like this, you are out. Every mistake you pay dearly, and that’s how it has been for us,” he lamented
Carlos is also playing for fourth place as drivers, since he is tied at 200 points with Fernando Alonso and he has Lando Norris (195) and Charles Leclerc (188) close by. “Tomorrow we are going to give everything to try to come back as much as possible. It is clear that things have not gone well today, but the points are tomorrow,” he warns. “Anyway, as you can imagine I’m really angry because we could have done things much better.”
Verstappen conquers the last pole of the year in Abu Dhabi
Regarding his accident on Friday, he assures that “it didn’t make me lose confidence because it is a corner that goes deep. “It was just the bump, nothing to worry about.”
2023-11-25 18:22:19
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