Carlos Sainz is one of the most important drivers in Formula 1, sharing a Ferrari team with Monegasque Charles Leclerc, struggling week after week to discuss the 2022 championship with Red Bull and the unstoppable Max Verstappen.
But first of all the Spanish athlete is a fan of football, and more precisely of Real Madrid. Do not you think? This has been proven in the last few hours, through a viral video that is fashionable on social media, where the son of the legendary rally icon proves that his passion for Merengue knows no bounds. Because not even Messi is able to make him give up that feeling.
Carlitos was approached by a fan who was waiting for him at the exit of an event, with the intention of greeting him and bringing him his signature as a souvenir. The problem was that the intention of the follower was to put the autograph on a Barcelona shirt, archrival of the new Champions League champion.
“I’m not signing it for you,” Sainz yelled from his car, looking like a few friends but with a 100 percent football code.
And the fanatic was no less: “Força Barça”, he replied.
With a smile, Sainz chose to close the fun exchange no longer as a fan but by appealing to his current role: “Forza Ferrari!” he closed, and walked away with a smile, hoping that next weekend’s Hungarian GP has it just as polished.
fanatic of me? Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz wears the Real Madrid jersey whenever he can.
Despite everything, he closed a good French GP
Spaniard Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), fifth this Sunday in the French Grand Prix, twelfth in the Formula 1 World Championship, told the Paul Ricard circuit that “with any luck he would have made it to the podium” but that, ” analyze relax, you have to settle “with the place where he finished a race in which, in addition to scoring the fastest lap, was chosen “Driver of the day”.
“First of all I think it was a great comeback,” said Sainz, 27, who, penalized by the engine change, started nineteenth, finished fifth and maintained fourth place in the World Cup, which he occupies with 144 points: 89 less than the leader, Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), who on Sunday took his seventh win so far this season.
The concentration of Carlos Sainz, aboard his Ferrari in France. Photo: Eric Gaillard, Pool via AP.
“Too bad we had that medium tire in the final laps, after the safety car, which made us doubt whether to stop or not. In the end we made the safe decision, which was to stop. I, inside the car, wasn’t so sure; but the team has a lot more data than me; and certainly with his data he made the right decision, “Sainz told the Dazn television channel this Sunday at the Le Castellet circuit.
“Being (practically) on the podium, as we were, even with a bad ‘pit stop’, means the race was going well,” commented the talented Madrid driver, who scored his first F1 victory at the start. of the month winning the British Grand Prix, in Silverstone (England) and which counts twelve podiums in the premier class, ten of which with Ferrari, of which six this season.
Carlos Sainz staged a good comeback and was chosen as “driver of the day”, while his team-mate Leclerc squandered the opportunity to win or score points. Photo: EFE / EPA / SEBASTIEN NOGIER.
“We lost a lot of time at the ‘pit stop’, but we were very fast, overtaking a Mercedes and a Red Bull on the track, overtaking not easy this time”, explained the son of the ‘Matador’, the double world rally champion. Spanish -and triple winner of the Dakar- of the same name.
“With a bit of luck we would have got on the podium anyway, that’s why I was a bit frustrated at the beginning, but analyzing things calmly, we have to confirm with that fifth, which is a good comeback,” said Sainz this Sunday in France; where his companion, the Monegasque Charles Leclerc, he missed a clear opportunity to close the gap on Verstappenwhen he had an accident and abandoned a race where he started from pole position.
“I think he lost the car at Turn 11, a corner we struggled with all weekend where it was easy to lose the back of the car,” said Carlos after finishing fifth at Paul Ricard.
“The top four always go very fast, very close to the limit. And we all make mistakes. I make them and Charles (Leclerc) makes them. And Max (Verstappen) will do them. We’re going very fast and that’s what happens,” he said. Sainz about his teammate’s accident.
With information from Agencies
Source: Clarin
