The discreet performance on Saturdays, much lower than what they then offer in the race, seemed to penalize McLaren at Marina Bay, the second circuit, after Monaco, where the grid position is most decisive. However, Carlos Sainz shone above the average in Marina Bay, with a seventh place that could still be better if not for a mechanical failure in his last attempt at Q3.
"A pity that last sector that has cost us a couple of tenths for lack of power," said the Spaniard, who three years ago signed a sixth place in the ranking for Toro Rosso. It would not have been enough to file the four tenths lost to Alexander Albon (Red Bull), but Sainz does not lose the opportunity to make his ambition clear.
And that night had started with a tremendous scare. "I don't have power," Carlos sang on the radio to Tom Stallard, his track engineer. "I didn't know what was going on. It must have been an engine protection," he explained with some relief in the Movistar F1 microphones.
At least, this time he did not have to face the situation experienced in the Italian GP. "Today they also raised their feet too much. The opposite is true that in Monza, you try not to have dirty air in front of you and many people go too slowly in the last sector," he commented on the controversial scenes of two weeks ago.
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