Formula 1: Carlos Sainz is already the best of the drivers who have changed teams

This is one of the most difficult seasons in memory for those drivers who have changed teams. The pandemic has compressed the calendar and the drivers have only had a day and a half of preseason to adapt to their new car. Those who, like Carlos Sainz, have changed teams, have also had to adapt to their new team of engineers. Given that the cars of 2021 are very similar to those of 2022, as expected, the drivers who have remained in their teams they are one step ahead of their new peers. At Ferrari, Leclerc is ahead of Carlos Sainz. At McLaren it is Lando Norris who is ahead of Ricciardo. At Red Bull, Verstappen is ahead of Sergio Pérez. In AlphaTauri it is Gasly who is ahead of Tsunoda. At Aston Martin Stroll he is ahead of Vettel. And in Alpine, Esteban Ocon is ahead of Fernando Alonso, although in the case of the Asturian his disadvantage is greater compared to his teammate if one takes into account that he has been two years out of Formula 1. Sainz has scored in the two races Of all these drivers who are behind his teammate, the best is Carlos Sainz. Although the Madrilenian made a mistake in Q3 in Bahrain, he started for Ferrari with eighth place in his first race. In the second he was not even able to sneak his car into Q3; However, he rallied from eleventh position to fifth in Imola, where he finished just behind Leclerc.Carlos Sainz is going from less to more and is already sixth in the World Cup. Hamilton, Verstappen, Norris, Leclerc and Bottas are the first five, riders who have not changed teams in 2021. After Carlos Sainz are Ricciardo and Sergio Pérez, who have; and Gasly and Stroll close the top-10.The speed made up for his mistakes. In a race with the wet track, in which most of the drivers got off it, the Spaniard was not spared. Luckily the Ferrari responded wonderfully at Imola. “It was time to attack after a regular day. I have risked a lot in the first lap, and without visibility in the first three or four laps I did not know what was going to happen. The strategy has worked out well, although I have made a couple of mistakes. I had to find the limit, I was able to recover quickly from mistakes, given that I was fast on the track ”, Carlos Sainz acknowledged after the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. “I think in the wet I was one of the fastest, I was super, super fast, and also in the dry, so I’m proud,” he added. Although the Madrid native finished ahead of Ricciardo, he also admitted that the McLarens are one step ahead. up front: “The strategy was quite clear to me for the highlight, the hardest thing was choosing the tire. We have seen that at McLaren they have risked a lot with the soft, but they were going so fast on the straight that they did not care. We still have a bit to do to fight with them on the straight and be able to overtake them, but the car was going well in the corner. ”Despite the poor qualifying and despite his starts on the track, Carlos Sainz believes he could have fought for the podium. “I have lost time on the track starts, and maybe if I hadn’t lost so much time the podium was possible. Of course, it was the first time I had driven the Ferrari in wet conditions, and I needed to feel the brakes well, it is normal to make mistakes. The highlight is that I have been fast, I stay with that and that with each lap that passes I feel better. And we are also on the right track, “he said.