F1\u2019s most bizarre race revealed: How Ferrari won the same race \u2013 twice<\/a><\/p>\nSpeaking to media, including PlanetF1.com, ahead of the British Grand Prix, Sainz admitted that Williams has a more competitive car at this point in the season than it had previously, but that that comes with drawbacks.<\/p>\n
\u201cA more competitive car is, for sure, stressing a bit the system of the way we do things and the way we work,\u201d he admitted, \u201cand having a car that this year we\u2019ve been able even to fight, at times, Red Bull, Mercedes, even Ferrari in Miami and Imola, has exposed not only our reliability issues, but also the way we look at strategy, the way we look at Q1s and Q2s, and the way we execute the weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
While there have been stresses, Sainz also notes that,\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s given us a great opportunity to actually learn a lot of the things we might or we could learn next year with a more competitive car.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut thanks to this much more competitive car this year, that\u2019s already given us a bit of a heads up on everything that we need to improve, on the margin of improvement that we have in so many areas if we want to fight the guys at the top.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s been a great test for the team; it\u2019s been a painful one, because obviously you see a car that can\u2019t get points almost every weekend, and we keep finding different little things that don\u2019t allow us to maybe get all the points that we think we could get.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Sainz, \u201cthe number one thing has always been performance, and the performance is there.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see good things coming, and this year\u2019s car performance, if anything, has exceeded my expectations of what I thought Williams could deliver for 2025.\u201d<\/p>\n
In fact, he feels that the team could be sitting as high as P7 in the drivers\u2019 standings if the team were able to put together a complete weekend, but he admitted that \u201cwe are not ready yet to execute weekends in that manner. We are both getting the team [that] the car deserves, let\u2019s say.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m not worried, because I know every member of the team knows this, and we are all working on putting things together, and even if, now, at the present time, everything looks extremely frustrating and difficult to handle, it\u2019s been 12 races where, obviously there\u2019s been a lot of up and downs, but I\u2019m confident on the trajectory we\u2019re on and where we\u2019re heading.\u201d<\/p>\n
The confidence is high \u2014 but so is the workload.<\/p>\n
Per Sainz, he\u2019s been doing more with Williams than he has with any of his former teams (Toro Rosso, Renault, McLaren, Ferrari) \u201cjust because there\u2019s still a lot of tools that\u00a0we\u2019re lacking, that we\u2019re trying to develop, and a lot of things that we still obviously need the drivers to be involved, the race drivers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile maybe we don\u2019t have the whole setup as I used to have in Ferrari, with a simulator, with the reserve drivers, with all the simulation tools a top team could have, and that it involves a lot more of the driver time and to do things.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s also obviously a high working load year for me as a driver, which, I\u2019m here for that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Williams also hired me for that capability that I have to help on those areas. I enjoy that side of my job, and I\u2019m keen to see the results come through in the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m confident the results are going to come at some point. I don\u2019t know when; it might be after summer break; it might be here in Silverstone and the rest of the season; or it might be for the last quarter of the season; or it might be for next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I\u2019m very confident on the work we\u2019re doing back at base and the work we\u2019re doing at the race track to improve the race team, to know that at some point all this work is going to pay off, and we\u2019re going to start forgetting about all the issues that we\u2019re currently having.\u201d<\/p>\n
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