After a great recovery race in the Turkish Grand Prix, finishing P8 despite having to start the Istanbul race from the back of the grid, Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz confirmed that there is definitely “something” in the Maranello team’s new power unit.
Carlos Sainz started the 58-lap Turkish Grand Prix from 19th place on the grid, the Spaniard incurring an engine penalty when the Italian side fitted his SF21 with its fourth engine of this season.
The Maranello team confirmed ahead of the event that Carlos Sainz would be joining Charles Leclerc in racing Ferrari’s updated hybrid system. The Spanish driver put it to good use, slicing his way through the field as he worked his way into the top ten.
Despite the fact that his progress was made difficult due to a slow pit stop, he brought his car home in eighth place. Asked about his new PU, he told Sky Italia: “There is something. We don’t want to talk about that, but there is something. It proves to you that we’re working. As Scuderia Ferrari we’re not stopping, we brought an upgrade seven races from the end when everyone is already thinking about next year. We keep finding something in the engine, in the development. We’re pushing because we don’t want to finish P4, P8, we want to win. Today has been a good race, a nice emotion as my first race at the attack with Ferrari, I enjoyed. I want more races like this.” – he explained.
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Carlos Sainz was without a doubt one of the stars in Sunday’s race as he pulled off overtake after another:
“There have been many. I had to do them one by one, it’s not like I had a great start and I was already P12 at the beginning. I think I was still P19 after the first corner and I had to push to the fullest. There was a point when I was overtaking one driver per lap and I was enjoying a lot. Then the track dried up a bit and it was more difficult overtaking, managing the tyre, the dirty air, when there was just one dry trail, was much more difficult to handle. But in the last ten laps I was very fast and we could recover what we lost at the pit stop.” – Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz concluded.
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