Chronicle Sainz's first podium with Ferrari
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The 78 laps through the streets of Monaco, completed in 99 minutes, barely made a dent in
Carlos Sainz
.
As soon as he crossed the finish line, before the F1 microphones, the Spaniard joked with
David Coulthard
on the subject, when the Scotsman noticed that he was not even sweating.
"Maybe you don't train too much, but we're in good shape," joked the Ferrari driver.
The joy of Carlos, however, admitted several nuances, related to the ambition of those who did not see victory so far. "If you told me before coming here that I finished second, without a doubt I would have accepted it. But if we take into account the circumstances of the weekend, with my teammate on
pole
and I not being able to make my lap on Saturday in qualifying, maybe it doesn't taste as good as it should, "said the Madrid native.
After the abandonment of
Valtteri Bottas
, shortly before the halfway point of the event, Sainz settled in second place thanks to the great pace of his SF21.
"The team should be proud of the car and the step forward that has been made this season," said the Spaniard, without problems to maintain the position against
Lando Norris
, his former teammate at McLaren.
The youth of the podium
"Obviously I feel happy, although not entirely because of the feeling of not having won. However, today was the most that could be done, because ahead they have not made any mistakes," he added about his options against
Max Verstappen
, who was He scored his second victory of the year, with which he reaches the leadership of the World Cup, with four points of advantage over
Lewis Hamilton
.
On Sunday Mercedes had been ruined during the Bottas stop, so Ferrari had to tune to the maximum during the passage through the pits.
"The team at least deserved a podium. It was all a matter of making a good start. Then I felt very good with the car," acknowledged Sainz, now seventh in the World Championship, just two points behind Leclerc.
At age 26, after just five races with Ferrari, Sainz was climbing to an F1 podium for the third time.
Before, at the wheel of a McLaren he had achieved it in the 2019 Brazilian GP and the 2020 Italian GP. Then, as now with Verstappen and Norris, he had been surrounded by other young people, such as
Pierre Gasly
and
Lance Stroll
.
A symptom of the new times in the Great Circus.
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