“I prefer not to comment” - Carlos Sainz reacts to Charles Leclerc’s Lap 1 defence
Tension continues to brew at Ferrari following an aggressive Lap 1 defence from Charles Lecl♐erc at the Chinese Grand Prix.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz blamed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc for their poor start on the opening lap of the Chinese ܫGrand Prix🦄.
The two Ferraris lost out to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Nico Hulkenberg through the opening seque♏nce of corners in Shangha🥂i.
It appeared that 🐬Leclerc ran Sainz off the track, getting revenge for the pair’s intense battle in the sprint race.
Reflecting♔ on the events of the opening lap, Sainz felt it was “clear” that Leclerc’s defending cost both of them crucial track positi🥃on.
“I prefer not to comment,” Sainz told Sky Sports F1. “But it’s obviously quite clear thಌat it cost us both two positཧions so it helped neither of us.
“Given what our pace was today, better than P5 was impossible. We had a poor start with the situation there in turns one and two that cost both cars two positions, from then on we were just ♛playing catch-up.
“We had to box very early for the hards and then we had to one-stop from lap 18, something like this ✨and just went fo♔rever on the hard tyre which we never going to go much more forward on.
“At least we saved P5, which given the pace of the car this weekend and the decisions we took, the situ🌜ation at the start it was the maximum we could achieve.”
Giving his view ꦇon the incident, Leclerc felt it was typical Lap 1 racing.
“It was the start. It’s always difficult with the tyres. It’s like this,♛” he explain﷽ed.
Sainz looking for upgrades
It was a disappointing day for Ferrari in the context that they were well beaten by McLaren’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris.
Sainz is hopeful Ferrari’s highly-🐬anticipated major upgrade will give them the pace they need to move forward.
“I think McL☂aren was just stro🔴nger this weekend,” Sainz added. “There's nothing really to comment except they just were faster in every conditions, qualifying and race.
“I think there’ll be tracks where we’re stronger, tracks where the 𓃲McLaren is stronger, we just need to g🔜o track by track and wait for that famous upgrade that will hopefully give us more performance.”
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