Carlos Sainz has given his reflections on what has been a “robust” run of races for himself and Williams in the course of the first half of the season, with the Spaniard stating that “every part that would go flawed this yr thus far has gone flawed for me”.
The Grove-based outfit are at present holding fifth place within the Groups’ Championship on 59 factors, placing them 18 factors away from closest rivals Kick Sauber in sixth.
Nevertheless, 46 of those factors have been earned by Alex Albon, with Sainz going through a run of adverse weekends that has seen him fail to attain since a P10 end in Canada.
The 30-year-old was unable to begin the Austrian Grand Prix as a result of a difficulty together with his automotive, whereas contact with the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc dropped him down the order one week later at Silverstone, which means that he crossed the road in P12.
Requested earlier on within the British Grand Prix weekend about what he had discovered thus far within the first half of the season, Sainz conceded: “Positively we’re going via a troublesome interval with reliability points, with weekend execution issues as you would see [in Austria], and the previous few weekends I believe have been extraordinarily troublesome for us as a group.
“For me on my aspect of the storage, working via a number of points in Qualifying and the race, the one factor that retains me hopeful and assured is that my velocity has all the time been there all year long.
“In order that’s one thing that we have to simply financial institution on and make it possible for we cease making these errors and making the sort of points which can be hampering us in essential moments of the weekend.”
Reflecting additional on the issues which have stricken him at a number of races, Sainz reiterated that he’s nonetheless taking positives from the truth that he feels comfy within the Williams FW47.
“I believe every part that would go flawed this yr thus far has gone flawed for me, and it has been a run of races the place we have had highlights and a few good moments, however within the majority of it it has been very scrappy from each half concerned,” the four-time race winner defined.
“We’re eager to get this run of unhealthy races to an finish, as a result of we’re making too many errors for the automotive that we’ve.
“The one factor that retains me smiling is the velocity that I’ve within the automotive and with the group, and I do know we must be ending each weekend as high of the midfield, apart from perhaps Barcelona and some different locations.
“The velocity is there, I really feel comfy within the automotive, we simply do not appear to get a break by way of luck and execution of the weekend [and] reliability.
“Simply means too many points for the automotive we’ve, however sooner or later it may finish and as quickly as I get a little bit of momentum going I do know what we’re able to doing.”
Sainz might be hoping for higher when System 1 heads to Belgium for the following spherical on the calendar in the course of the weekend of July 25-27.
