Carlos Sainz is placed in fifth position a Monza 2024. Coming from last year's pole position start, he feels disappointed by the performance that relegated him to only the third row. Thus, the red team does not get a third consecutive pole position at Monza.
Sainz does his best, but pays 1 tenth for tyre temperature
Even though he is 140 thousandths behind the leader Lando Norris, Carlos Sainz can only watch the back of his teammate who starts in fourth position. With the incredibly close gaps, the top teams McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes are not surprised that they monopolize the first 3 rows.
To the microphones of SkySportF1, Carlos Sainz tried to explain what may have been the mistake that made him lose important tenths.
"Personally I had no problems with the tyres," the Spaniard said, "what cost me a bit was in Q3 when the temperature dropped while making the front tyres work. In the second and third sectors I was losing a lot compared to Q1 or Q2 in the fast corners."
"This is a shame," continued #55, "because in the first sector I was very happy and we added a lot of front wing to make the front work better, but even so we were not fast in the second and third sectors. Maybe the temperature dropped in the final and it cost us that tenth, but we were fighting."
Temperature question so at Ferrari, since Leclerc also encountered the same problem. Already ready to optimize the results in view of the race, hoping and fighting for the podium.
