Carlos Sainz suffered the next setback in Miami practice and admits after his accident that the car still surprises him sometimes
After his crashes in Melbourne and in qualifying and the race at Imola, Carlos Sainz suffered the next setback in Miami. The Ferrari driver continued his series of crashes, slamming his car into the track barrier in the afternoon’s second practice session. He admits: “The car still surprises me. I’m not going to beat about the bush. “
“There are still a few things out of my control that surprise me. And once I get to grips with them and learn them, I can be fast on every lap,” the Spaniard insists.
Because he sees his speed on the new track as positive until the accident: “The pace is there, I’m pretty fast. But it’s disappointing, of course, because you don’t want to start a weekend like this. “
The accident itself was quite hard, he said. Sainz had lost the car on the approach to turn 14 and spun before hitting the wall. “I hit the wall at probably the worst point because there was no Tecpro barrier there,” he said. “I went full on into a concrete wall, which felt pretty hard even with my speed. “
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“So the car is quite damaged, which gives everyone a tough Friday night. It’s not ideal,” said Sainz.
One circumstance that didn’t make it any easier for him, he said, was the heat in Miami, which was quite hard on the tyres. “I then had a little snap in the corner before. I think I overheated the rear tyres a bit and then lost the car,” said the Spaniard, who therefore expects a difficult race: “A lot can happen.”
Nothing should happen to him, though, after two early retirements in a row. “That’s right, it’s more about a clean weekend than anything else,” he stresses. “Because in terms of pure pace, I was faster the last two weekends than the two races before. But the results were worse. “
“But there are still 19 races to go and as Real showed, in sport everything can change in minutes,” he points to the success of his favourite team Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals, who scored two goals in the closing stages against Manchester City to save themselves for extra time, where they still scored the winning goal.
“I’m the first to be unhappy about the two accidents, but I’m also the first to analyse them and draw my conclusions,” he said, recalling last year when he also had a series of accidents in training. “But after that came my best races in Formula 1, so I know how to get out of it. “
