“Going forward, today we did it well, so we keep doing it that way.” We trust each other in these kind of scenarios as you saw.
“I trust the team a lot and today we executed a very fine race. “Sometimes the driver feeling is there, and sometimes the team might tell you something that you don’t agree with, and you just do your own thing because you really believe in it,” he added. Sainz believes it shows the trust of the team that he can overrule the orders given based on his feeling within the cockpit.
“I said to the team – ‘leave it with me – I’m going to the lead as clean as possible.’” “So my decision was to get into the lead as soon as possible, I knew I could be in the lead before Turn 6 with the grip I had on the softs and go from there and try not to affect his race by getting into the lead. “And then they asked me to do this 10 metres thing and I tried to explain I have behind me probably the fastest man on track today, if I drop back 10 metres, I might lose a bit of a slipstream and if he passes me, Charles is going to be dead meat also. I think we did it and executed it perfectly. “At one point we switched positions when we were at risk of losing positions, of getting overcut by Lewis. “Honestly, I think today the team managed the race really well, I have nothing to say,” Sainz said.
He instead opted to overtake Leclerc at the earliest opportunity and break clear of the chasing pack, going on to take his first Formula 1 victory. Just before the safety car restart, Ferrari told Sainz to drop 10 metres behind Leclerc in order to give a bigger protective buffer to his team-mate against Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes and Sergio Perez’s Red Bull behind.īut Sainz refuted this request, saying “guys, I’m under pressure from Hamilton, please don’t ask these things.
After some hesitation, Sainz let Leclerc through into the race lead and they maintained those positions until a late-race safety car led to Ferrari pitting Sainz for fresh softs and keeping Leclerc on his hard tyres.
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