Scuderia Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz said that traffic may be an important factor in the qualifying session which takes place later today at the Circuit of The Americas for the 2021 United States GP, taking into consideration what happened in Friday practice at COTA.
Carlos finished FP2 in ninth place, almost one second from the best lap time of Friday, but confirms that this situation was caused by the fact that he had to deal with traffic in the final part of his fast lap.
“I have a smile because first of all I have enjoyed myself a lot, it’s a great track to drive and every lap that I do here I just enjoy it,” – Carlos said, as reported by the official website of Formula One – “And the car, the set-up in FP1 was quite tricky with the bumps, some set-up tuning and for FP2 we managed to improve it quite a lot – so I was a bit happier in FP2 although the timesheets don’t show it, because I had a pretty scrappy third sector with traffic and a mistake.” – he added.
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Yet like many other drivers, Carlos Sainz found the traffic around the Circuit of The Americas difficult to manage:
“Obviously these [are] sensitive cars to wind and dirty air, we need big spaces between cars. And if you encounter traffic like I did in the last sector, with how critical the tyres are at the end of the lap with overheating, how hot it is, dirty air plus overheating, it can get very messy.” – the Ferrari driver concluded, ahead of the qualifying session on Saturday.
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