Carlos Sainz has stated Williams must \u201cdig deep\u201d to turn around its torrid start to the new F1 season.<\/p>\n
The Grove-based team has long signalled the 2026 regulation overhaul as an opportunity to make strides up the F1 pecking order.<\/p>\n
However, the team entered a car that is overweight and has significant limitations, which left it as one of the field’s slowest teams across the opening two rounds.<\/p>\n
Last Sunday at the Chinese Grand Prix, Sainz was the only entry in the race as Alex Albon was forced to retire after a pre-race concern with the car.<\/p>\n
Sainz managed to score two points in ninth place to kickstart Williams’ championship tally, but insisted the team is far from satisfied with the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know we are too slow compared to where we wanted to be, where we expected to be,\u201d Sainz told media including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of that is weight that we know we need to get out of the car. But another part, a very big part of it, is downforce that we need to improve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven’t [had] the most reliable car. Alex not starting the race [in China] and me missing so many free practices and having so many issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, we need to level up, because we’re having too many issues in too many areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs team, we need to dig deep.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sainz is hopeful his drive to the points will act as a point of inspiration for the team as it strugl\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope these two points serve as motivation, as a bit of a bonus, motivation for everyone to go back home and dig deep.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s not where we wanted to be and where we said we would be this season.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has stated Williams must \u201cdig deep\u201d to turn around its torrid start to the new F1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-547219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547219","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=547219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}