“It’s very expensive, but it was a risk”

The weekend began with good foot for Carlos Sainz and Williams. In fact, in the first free training session, the Spanish managed to end in the 4th position, half a second of the time marked by Oscar Piestri and just ahead of his teammate, in 5th position. This rhythm also remained present during the first session of the Sprint classification, but in the SQ2 the Spanish suffered a blocked, which gave the reason that it is not yet 100% in this FW47.

Strategy to a single round

During the second session, The Williams team decided to bet on making a single round with the middle tire, something that worked for Alex Albon, He managed to move to the SQ3, but he did not finish curdling in the case of Carlos Sainz. And it is that the Spanish reached the braking of curve 14, after the line of the DRS, at which time he suffered a blocked in his right front tire, which left him out of combat.

This caused the 55 was the only pilot to finish the session without a marked time, which relegated him to the 15th position for the race to the sprint on Saturday, Where to score, you will have to go back to the 8th place. An action that the Spanish pilot has lamented, especially for the rhythm shown of the FW47, although yes, there is still a lot of weekend ahead.

“Obviously we decided to do only one return. The risk of that strategy is that, if you make a mistake, you do not even mark time. And this time I have made a mistake. I have blocked strongly in curve 11. It is something that I need to analyze and see exactly what I did, because at the time I did not feel that I was doing anything especially different. But I will review the data well to understand it, ”said Williams.

“It is an expensive mistake, yes, but the only positive thing is that it has been in the Sprint. We still have the real classification and the real career tomorrow”, He continued.

“It will be, sure, a long race for me, caught in traffic. But I think we are much faster than everyone we have around. Today we had rhythm to be in the Top 10, ”concluded Carlos Sainz.

This is how the Williams pilot has fallen into the SQ2 after a blocker of tire in his only attempt, so he will leave 15th in the Sprint on Saturday.