“Irritating, sure, nevertheless it doesn’t change something for the crew. It’s okay. I feel I did my half on the primary stint clearly. Once I had the tyres that have been utterly gone, I didn’t wish to battle at that time, I let Carlos by. The remaining we are going to talk about throughout the crew.”
Pressed on whether or not he felt Sainz had been favoured by the crew, he added: “No, no, no, it’s not about favouring one or the opposite, it’s about issues that now we have been informed. However that’s all good. Once more, I’ve already mentioned an excessive amount of, so I don’t wish to go into the small print in any way.”
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Ferrari’s P3 and P4 finishes imply they’re now simply 24 factors behind championship leaders McLaren, who wound up sixth and seventh with Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri respectively.
“It’s good,” he mentioned of the scenario. “Nonetheless, we perhaps anticipated a bit extra coming into the weekend. We knew that it was going to be a very good race for us. We had the fear of tyre warm-up, which has been confirmed. Mercedes was simply very, very sturdy, and too sturdy for us at present.”
