Carlos Sainz

It's like taking the cars of last year and taking away, I don't know how to explain to people, but it's like 60 to 100 points of downforce to last year.

And with a little bit better ride, because you can run a little bit softer than last year because of not having ground effect.

So it's not that different.

It's just running on the Monza wings of last year, but in Bahrain.

No, because the 2021 car had even more downforce than the 2025 car, or let's say, downforce in different places.

It's like a 21 car, let's say, with a lot less downforce.

I'm getting a picture.

Or it's in between a 21 and a 22 car with less downforce.

It's just in the middle.

It's not a 21, it's not a 22 generation.

It's in the middle of the two, and then you reduce downforce.

And then you take away drivability, and you put turbo lag, and you put other different things that make your life very complicated.

Which is kind of what it should be, right?

I don't complain about being complicated.

I'm...

I don't think so.

I need to come up with a new solution to that.

But let me say the key of these regulations and my recommendation right now to FIA and FOM would be to stay open-minded with the way we use the overtake mode.

Because the solution that we might have come up now for Bahrain might be the right one, but maybe for a different circuit is a bit different.

And if we want to make racing good and still put on a good show, we might need to adapt and learn from these regulations because I don't even think FIA, FOM know how much overtake mode to put for each track, how difficult it's going to be to follow or not follow with these regs.