Carlos Sainz says he made a driving error in his crash at the beginning of Q3 on the Singapore Grand Prix, as he went off beginning a timed lap.
Oscar Piastri was finishing a lap and had simply been allowed by way of by Sainz forward of the ultimate nook, whereas Max Verstappen was shut behind because the Spaniard accelerated to start his opening effort. Sainz overcorrected an enormous slide in the midst of the nook and spun backwards into the barrier at excessive pace, and he admits he pushed too laborious given the dearth of tire temperature he had.
“I had a little bit of a wierd accident there,” Sainz stated. “I needed to let quite a lot of automobiles by way of there opening my lap and my tires have been only a lot colder than I believed they’d be. I misjudged the grip occurring the bump in Flip 17 and it utterly snapped on me.
“Driving mistake. I underestimated the grip I might get launching the lap. I used to be already beneath stress with one other automobile coming and I knew that launching the lap, I used to be already going to be slower due to the strategy within the final nook. So gradual, so it meant that I attempted to do one thing that was not sufficient grip to do.”
Sainz gained for Ferrari at Singapore in 2023 however this season has had a more difficult weekend, and says he hasn’t had the arrogance he wanted to be combating for pole place.
“Yep, it’s been an enormous wrestle for me this weekend. Very unusual the way it can change from one yr to a different,” he admitted. “However like we’ve seen many occasions this yr, to get the tires in the best window over one lap with our automobile is kind of tough. I had a few first rate laps over the weekend, however usually very inconsistent.
“I had points with the brakes yesterday, which didn’t assist my build-up to the weekend. Right here it’s all about gaining confidence, executing from FP1 to Q3, excellent laps and I didn’t have that this weekend. I used to be simply struggling yesterday, didn’t get right into a rhythm and at present to get the tires and the brakes right into a window was only a very tough factor to do.”
Sainz admitted he might need to begin Sunday’s race from the pit lane as a result of quantity of injury sustained within the crash, if the staff has to alter specification of any elements.
“Truthfully, the automobile seems to be fairly broken. I don’t know what we’ll do,” he stated. “I simply hope that I can have a standard race tomorrow, get right into a rhythm like I may in Baku, after which we are able to present good tempo.
“I feel this yr, as soon as I get right into a rhythm within the race, we ought to be OK. It’s simply over one lap with the black magic of the tires to get all the things working. I imply, you noticed the error I did. It’s not widespread and never typical, and it exhibits that there should be one thing, actually, with a really, very effective line between them to grip and to not grip. So tomorrow, as quickly as I get right into a rhythm, we can be there.”
