After a Friday in which Ferrari had left a good feeling, Carlos Sainz was confident of fighting for his first pole of his sports career, yes, he knew that it was going to be especially difficult, since his teammate, Charles Leclerc, was racing at home.
From the first qualifying round of the 2022 Monaco Grand Prix , the Monegasque driver proved to have an extra performance that his rivals could not find, and that was what finally ended up giving him pole position after a chaotic finish in Q3.
In one of the two accidents that ended the last qualifying round before the stopwatch reached zero, Carlos Sainz was involved, who ran into Sergio Pérez’s accident car before entering the tunnel and could not avoid contact, blocking the area and the passage of the following cars.
As soon as he got out of his car, the man from Madrid explained the incident and acknowledged that had it not been for that final red flag, he believes he could have fought for pole position against his teammate Charles Leclerc , who will start just ahead of him in the race for Sunday.
“I tried to avoid it as best I could, but it’s a shame, another year that the red flag cuts us off at the end of the session and we can’t go for pole position, it’s typical of Monaco.”
“I think so [could have taken pole]. We’ve had really good pace every day. I was just putting it all together for qualifying, but we’ll never know, so it’s impossible to say. But today I felt really good with the car”.
Regarding his objectives for the race, Sainz did not want to say much, only that he hoped to achieve “a great result for the team”, since the two Ferrari drivers will start from the first places and taking into account the characteristics of the Monte Carlo track. , the double is very possible.
“Yeah, let’s try and finish the job tomorrow. I think we’re in a great position to get a great result for the team. The car has been amazing all weekend. So we’re going to go for it.”
For the Monaco Grand Prix race, the forecasts point to a high probability of rain that could disrupt the drivers’ plans, although the Madrid native is not worried: “I don’t care.”
