8. CARLOS SAINZ
I’m very pleased with my race,
especially because we didn’t have an
easy one! We started from the back
and did a good start, managing to get
into the top 10 in the early stages of
the race. Suddenly, after the second
pit-stop during the Safety Car period,
we were nearly last… Which meant
we had to do a very good last stint on
the Soft tyres - 35 laps - overtaking
lots of cars and managing to get back
into the top eight, something a bit
unexpected after seeing myself back
in P15 with half the race to go. After
a tough Saturday, I’m happy to finish
the weekend with a good result as
we’ve worked very hard for this – now
we just need to make sure we have
better Saturdays in order to start races
further up the grid and fight for more
points. I’m confident we can do it.