🗣 'I was getting my championship hopes back up. Suddenly, the zero doesn’t come in a very good time.' Carlos Sainz says his fiery AustrianGP retirement came about just as he was getting his F1 title 'hopes back up”. ⬇️
has won the last two races, with Leclerc’s Austria triumph featuring a major pace advantage over Red Bull thanks to the Italian team having better in-race tyre wear, which for Sainz offers significant comfort after his title chances were dealt another blow following his second reliability retirement of 2022 .
“And actually getting a lot of points and feeling like I was getting my championship hopes back up. Suddenly, the zero doesn’t come in a very good time. But the good thing is that we can win every single race that we go to if we nail it. “That the car is super strong, and it keeps improving every race. We keep finding laptime with it. And there’s still half a season to go, so that’s good news.”Ferrari is set to make a final call over whether or not to fit a new engine to Sainz’s carIf the Spaniard is given another engine, he would be required to start the French race from the back of the grid.
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