Sports Writing, March 5. Spaniard Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), who finished fourth this Sunday in the Bahrain Grand Prix, the first in the Formula 1 World Cup, said at the Sakhir circuit that he “always” respects his compatriot Fernando Alonso -third in his first race as an Aston Martin Driver -, who had a “good battle” with him and who congratulates the double world champion from Asturias, who according to him “deserved the podium”
“We already knew from last year that this circuit had deteriorated a lot, that it was an open file and that it left little room to fight,” said Sainz, 28, who last season , winning at Silverstone (Great Britain) achieved his first victory in Formula 1, in which he has a total of fifteen podiums.
This Sunday what would have been number 16 escaped him; something he admitted sportingly, congratulating Alonso and Aston Martin, the seventh car last year and which, driven by the great Asturian driver, ended up being the second this Sunday.
“Fighting with Fernando, I loaded the wheels; and behind came (seven-time English world champion Lewis) Hamilton, but I was able to get them back; but as soon as you pull a little you eat the wheels. It’s a pending issue that needs to be improved throughout the season,” the Madrid driver told Dazn TV.
“Obviously I always respect Fernando. I think it was a great battle; tough, but beautiful; fighting for the podium; which in the end he and Aston Martin deserved,” Sainz told Sakhir on Sunday. where the past year ended. second.
“We have to congratulate them and next time we will try to do better,” the son of Spain’s two-time world rally champion of the same name said after the first of 23 Formula 1 World Cup races. EFE
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