Carlos Sainz insists there isn’t any frustration from his facet after Alex Albon overtook him within the Miami Grand Prix, regardless of a workforce 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 occurring to complete a powerful fifth. The Williams was fast all through the race however Sainz was fighting ground harm and ended up ninth, however doesn’t consider the second with Albon was significantly important.
“To begin with, as a result of some operational errors throughout the weekend, we have 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, dropping a few tenths per lap within the first [stint] in new versus used,” Sainz mentioned. “And from there, clearly, I attempted every part to carry on the primary stint.
“I picked up harm firstly with Alex. Then he made a mistake. I managed to move him, then they instructed us that we have been going freeze positions. Then, I don’t know if he acquired the message or not, however, principally, he overtook me again.
“From there onwards, on that first stint, I simply tried to do every part to remain involved with that group, holding on Charles [Leclerc] behind with a used tire and broken automotive.
“I believe I used to be the primary considered one of that pitted, the VSC got here out, so it was a free cease for all of them, or type of a brief cease for all of them, versus me, which meant clearly I acquired stress from them after the VSC.
“Had just a few good battles with the Ferraris. However with harm within the automotive 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 occurring.”
Albon acknowledged he was given a message regarding engine temperatures – that might have meant he wanted to carry place – simply as he was lining up the move 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 instructed within the radio that I’m not going to be attacked and we’re going to push collectively, to be overtaken, at all times, as a driver, you’re feeling silly, since you really feel powerless since you’re taking part in the nice man.
“Identical manner that I performed the nice man in Jeddah and also you get overtaken and also you look utterly silly, nevertheless it’s the way in which it goes. We’ll discuss it. I’m certain we’ll come out of it higher as a workforce, and we’ll 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 in regards to the choice.
“Final lap, I clearly went for it as I noticed a niche and went for it. I believe he reacted a bit to my transfer, it caught him a bit without warning and he began shifting to the left throughout braking, which when you apply the rulebook to the letter you can not try this as a result of that’s shifting beneath braking. However final lap, final nook, clearly everybody’s going to be a bit on the restrict.”
