“I prefer not to comment” - Carlos Sainz reacts to Charles Leclerc’s Lap 1 defence
Tension continues to brew at Ferrari following an aꦍggressive 💛Lap 1 defence from Charles Leclerc at the Chinese Grand Prix.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz blamed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc for their poor start on the openi꧟ng lap of the Chinese Grand Prix.
The two Ferraris lost out to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:George Russell and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg through the ope⭕ning sequence of corners in Shanghai.
It appeared that Leclerc ran Sainz off the track, getting revenge for the paওir’s intense battle in the sꦏprint race.
Reflecting on the events of the opening✱ lap, Sainz felt it was “clear” 💃that Leclerc’s defending cost both of them crucial track position.
“I prefer not to comment,” Sainz told Sky Sports F1. “But it’s obviously quite clear that it cost us both two positions so it helped neither of u🌳s.
“Given what our pace was today, better than P5 was impossible. We had a poor start with the situation there in turns one and two that cost both cars two positi🥂ons, from then on we were just playing catch-up.
“We had to box very early for the hards and then we had to one-stop from lap 18, something like this and just went forever on the hard tyre which we never going to g🌠o much more forward on.
“At least we saved P5, which given the pace of the car this weekend and the decisions we took, the situation at the start it was the maximum we could ach🌌i𒈔eve.”
Giving his viไew on the incident, Leclerc felt it was typ🌞ical Lap 1 racing.
“It was the start. It’s always difficult with 𒀰the tyres. It’s like this,” he explained.
Sainz looking for upgrades
It was a disappointing day for Ferrari in the context that they were well beaten by McLaren’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris.
Sainz is hopeful Ferrari’s highly-anticipated major ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚupgrade will give them the pace they 𝓀need to move forward.
“I think McLaren was just stronger this weekend,” Sainz added. “There's nothing really to comment except they ju♛st were faster in every conditions, qualifying and race.
“I think there’ll be tracks where we’re🎃 stronger, tracks where the McLaren is stronger, we just need to go track by track and wait for that famous upgrade that will hopefully give us more performance.”

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