Carlos Sainz has conceded the first half of his stint at Williams has been an \u201cextremely frustrating\u201d period.<\/p>\n
Sainz joined Williams after being ousted at Ferrari in favour of seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard opted to sign for the Grove-based squad despite interest from various F1 squads. While Williams has enjoyed a strong spell of results, Sainz’s team-mate Alex Albon has scored a bulk of the points.<\/p>\n
Having had to adjust to a new environment, Sainz acknowledged satisfaction with he has gelled well with the team.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a difficult question to write in a report card, but I would say it\u2019s been with some highs and lows,\u201d Sainz told media including RacingNews365 when asked to sum up his season to date.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cExtremely frustrating because I feel like I\u2019ve had a lot of pace in the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve adapted to the team quickly. Right from the beginning, I felt with good speed in the car, but it\u2019s been very difficult to put two results together through the whole first half of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sainz has 16 points to his name after 14 rounds, leaving him towards the rear of the drivers’ championship.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard voiced frustration over how points have slipped through his grasp.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it was not a reliability issue, it was an incident with a rival,\u201d\u00a0he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when it\u2019s not an incident with another rival, you don\u2019t even get to start the race in Austria.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThen it was traffic in Q1, or some strategic mistakes we\u2019ve done through the year. So nothing really has come together for us in terms of results. But in the middle of those ups and downs, there\u2019s speed.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is proof that we are going in the right direction. It\u2019s just when you don\u2019t have a result to back it, that\u2019s when it gets frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has conceded the first half of his stint at Williams has been an \u201cextremely frustrating\u201d period.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15976,"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-92700","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\/92700","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=92700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}