Carlos Sainz has revealed when he expects Williams to have its next competitive outing following its strong showing at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
In mixed conditions during qualifying, Sainz placed his car on the front row of the grid for the start of the race, alongside pole-sitter Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard maintained his impressive pace during the grand prix, and although he could not hold off the Mercedes of George Russell, Sainz crossed the line in third posiiton.<\/p>\n
It marked his first podium as a Williams driver and offered Sainz some relief from the various challenges he has faced this year.<\/p>\n
Sainz suggested he does not expect Williams to maintain its podium-contending form, suggesting Las Vegas will be its best remaining chance to snatch a strong result.<\/p>\n
Asked what else was possible this year, speaking to the media, including RacingNews365, he said: \u201cNot much more than this, to be honest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the podium is, unless something crazy happens, maybe our best chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably Vegas will be our next best track to try and maybe put together a top five or a top six, which is what we sometimes can achieve when everything goes right.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a tough ask. I\u2019ll fight for it if it comes, like you\u2019ve seen [in Azerbaijan].\u201d<\/p>\n
While Sainz predicted Williams will be a point-scoring contender for the North and South American races, the 31-year-old suggested it will endure a difficult weekend in Qatar, the second-last round of the campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the rest, for example, in Qatar, I don\u2019t think we will score points,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s how much our performance swings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then we will have Austin, Mexico. We will be a pure midfield car where we can maybe get in the points and keep our championship going.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo excited to see what happens in those races.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has revealed when he expects Williams to have its next competitive outing following its strong showing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-164603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}