Carlos Sainz: “Sooner or later I will be 100% comfortable”

Seventh in his national Grand Prix in Barcelona on May 13, Carlos Sainz continues the good performances with the RS 18 of the Renault Sport F1 Team. The Spaniard previously brought a top 5 finish to the French brand in Baku, Azerbaijan, the best result since the Losange returned as a full-fledged manufacturer.

With its performance, coupled with that of Nico Hulkenberg, Renault is in fourth place in the ranking ahead of McLaren. And Carlos Sainz admits that he can still extract more potential from the car French.

“I invest a lot, I put in a lot of effort and I feel that things are coming little by little, the son of the double world rally champion told us. Sooner or later I'll be 100% comfortable.

When you're not one with the car, you tend to lose tenths of a second here and there. But I'm not worried. We are talking about very small margins, but in F1, they can make a big difference.

We can see that the car enters Q3 consistently, and I'm not totally at the limit, so it is necessarily positive for the future. »

A delighting start to the season Cyril Abiteboul, director of Renault Sport Racing, who admits he is already thinking about keeping the Spaniard beyond 2018.