"Carlos Sainz is fast, this year's experience will help him"

“Carlos Sainz is fast, this year’s experience will help him” – Emerson Fittipaldi. Emerson Fittipaldi reflects on Carlos' 2022 season.

For Scuderia Ferrari Spanish driver Carlos Sainz, the 2022 Formula One season was certainly two-sided. Carlos Sainz struggled, especially in the first part of the championship, to keep pace with his Maranello team-mate Charles Leclerc, making a few avoidable mistakes and taking longer than expected to learn to fully exploit the technical characteristics of his F1-75 challenger

But then the performances of Scuderia Ferrari’s #55 gradually improved and led to him taking his first Formula 1 Grand Prix win, at the Silverstone circuit. The British Grand Prix demonstrated – despite the controversy related to the strategical decisions made by Maranello team, which penalized Charles Leclerc in that circumstance, how the former McLaren driver can compete on a good day with any opponents in Formula 1.

Two-time Formula One world champion Emerson Fittipaldi underlined Carlos Sainz’s good performance and had some nice words for the Spanish driver. According to the former Lotus and McLaren legend, in fact, despite a few mistakes made in the first part of the season, Carlos Sainz is showing everyone that he has the abilities required to fight at the top:

“The experience Carlos Sainz is having this year will certainly help him at the end of the season and for the next championship.” – Emerson Fittipaldi said, as reported by the VegasInsider website site – “He is very fast and he can be extremely competitive. He made some mistakes, it’s true, but that’s life. He could be very strong at the end of this year and next year”. – concluded the retired Brazilian automobile racing driver who won both the Formula One World Championship and the Indianapolis 500 twice each and the CART championship once.