Carlos Sainz admits to having a bittersweet feeling about his ‘ultimate’ outing with Ferrari.
Whereas teammate Charles Leclerc admits to feeling “damage” having did not safe the title for Ferrari, it was a bittersweet day for his teammate, who drove a usually sturdy race on a regular basis conscious, as he heads to Williams, that it’s in all probability going to a while earlier than he has a really aggressive automotive once more.
“I am not going to lie, my final laps, as a lot as I used to be pushing like hell for this staff,” mentioned Sainz. “I used to be already beginning to really feel issues within the automotive and making an attempt to say, ‘bear in mind how this feels. as a result of tomorrow and Tuesday I want to recollect why is that this automotive fast on this nook and why does it really feel good!’ As a result of I do know in all probability what I’ll discover tomorrow and Tuesday wants some margin of enchancment within the corners that I used to be feeling the automotive.
“This sums up that I am already trying forward,” he added. “I am extraordinarily motivated for the problem that I’ve forward of me. Immediately is a day to attempt to get pleasure from as a lot as attainable with the staff as my final day in crimson. We nonetheless have some days in Maranello developing, however clearly my aggressive thoughts is already trying ahead to Monday and Tuesday and to see how I could make that Williams automotive quicker.”
Requested the way it felt to be leaving Ferrari after 4 seasons, he mentioned: “Unusual. A bit emotional, I am not going to lie.
“In all probability, I might say it was extra emotional the final time that I jumped within the automotive, on the grid,” he added. “I knew that was clearly going to be my final race with a gaggle of folks that I’ve loved these final 4 years. The final time that I might leap in a Ferrari, in all probability, and I used to be simply feeling emotional.
“I attempted to remind myself to attempt to benefit from the race as a lot as attainable and to provide absolutely the most for this staff. Leaping out of the automotive, I already had the bittersweet feeling.
“I did get emotional sooner or later right now,” he admitted. “I am not going to let you know precisely when or how. It is a feeling that I save to myself and for my staff.
“Possibly it is all a little bit of appearing, and I am appearing like I am not emotional in any respect,” he smiled. “I’ve discovered from Brad Pitt who’s right here this weekend.
“I let you know, I have been emotional. It is simply up till right now, there was an excessive amount of of a job to do and an excessive amount of of a factor to combat for. So your mind does not help you get emotional since you care extra about profitable and giving the staff a constructors’ championship than your feelings itself. For example, your competitiveness takes over. However right now there have been moments that I obtained emotional and fortuitously you guys did not get to see it.”
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