Carlos Sainz struggled with his McLaren in the Eifel

Change does not always bring the expected result. In the Eifel, the McLaren de Carlos Sainz had many developments. But while Daniel Ricciardo, set off to secure the first podium of Renault this season, the Spaniard has never been able to aim for the box. He mostly fought with his own car. “I fought for sixty rounds” reacted bitterly, the McLaren driver. “I didn't have a good feeling all weekend. I never felt in a position to go for that podium that I saw right in front of me. »

He only remembers the result of fifth place as positive. “In these conditions, it's definitely an excellent place, we extracted the maximum. But hey when you see the podium so close and the feeling with the car is so, let's say... Bad, and you have a lot of graining, it's really hard to accept. »

Sainz's difficulties can be explained by the absence of running on Friday, which prevented the team from making the necessary adjustments to introduce changes. “ If we had Friday to develop the whole thing, would it have been much better than it is now, where it's just not working as it should? » asks Sainz. " VSThis is the biggest question we will have to answer in the coming weeks, we have a lot of work to do. Nothing is going well at the moment. »

The abandonment of Lando Norris and Sainz's fifth place behind a Renault and a Racing Point resulted in the loss of third constructors' place for McLaren, four points behind Racing Point.