Carlos Sainz says he used his remaining laps in a Ferrari throughout the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to arrange himself to have the ability to examine automobiles as soon as he jumped into the Williams for testing.
Ferrari has allowed Sainz to participate within the post-race Pirelli tire check on Tuesday for Williams, and that was preceded by a filming day on Monday the place he might full restricted mileage on demonstration tires. Sainz insists the transition into his subsequent chapter shouldn’t be one thing he envisages being significantly troublesome as a result of he was already eager about how he might take learnings to Williams.
“Being very sincere with you, I don’t assume (it’ll be exhausting),” Sainz mentioned after Sunday’s race. “I’m not going to lie, my final laps, as a lot as I used to be pushing like hell for (Ferrari) and making an attempt, I used to be already beginning to really feel issues within the automotive and making an attempt to say, keep in mind how this feels. as a result of (on Monday) and Tuesday I would like to recollect why is that this automotive fast on this nook and why does it really feel good?
“As a result of I do know most likely what I’m going to search out (on Monday) and Tuesday wants some margin of enchancment within the corners that I used to be feeling the automotive. So this simply sums up that I’m already trying additionally forward. I’m extraordinarily motivated for the problem that I’ve forward of me.
“(Sunday) is a day to attempt to take pleasure in as a lot as doable with the workforce as my final day in purple. We nonetheless have some days in Maranello arising, however clearly my aggressive thoughts is already trying ahead to Monday and Tuesday and to see how I could make that Williams automotive quicker.”
Sainz adopted his filming day with the best complete of any single driver throughout Tuesday’s Pirelli check, finishing 146 laps and setting the second quickest time behind former teammate Charles Leclerc, after spending nearly all of the day on the high of the standings.
