Carlos Sainz

It was a disaster because I've never felt so powerless in a sense where I felt I had done testing right, I had adapted to the car quick,

I understood the car fairly well, but then in the first 10 races of the season, I would say one different thing happened to me, and I learned one new thing every time from those 10 races.

That didn't matter if it was the team, myself, or just incidents or things that were sometimes in my control and other times out of my control, but it was 10 races where it didn't matter how quick I was, didn't matter how quick I had adapted to the Williams car,

Car was competitive and Alex was doing top fives, top sixes here and there.

And I was like, I don't understand why I cannot get that top five or top six if I know I'm as quick or sometimes quicker, sometimes a bit slower, but I felt quick.

But the results never came.

I kept believing that I said, at one point this is going to change and all the bad luck and the bad things are happening.

It's going to pay me back because it's not normal what's happening.

And look, then Baku came.

I've been trying to debrief my season with my team to try to understand what happened in those 12, 13 races because I was like, it's not normal.

Like I've never had such a bad run of 10, 12 races where nothing went well for me.

against showing good speed so that at least was not the concern it's not like now i'm three four tenths of the pace like we've seen sometimes other drivers be like not even in the pace like i know i'm in the pace but there's something that is just not clicking and trying to debrief it and we came to a couple of conclusions that i will not personally share here but

The only thing that I took away from it is that I kept saying, I'm not going to change one thing of how I'm working, because I believe I'm working well and results are going to come.

I'm just going to believe the result is going to come.

And I'm going to keep going, keep going, keep going until the result comes.

And eventually, it came.

And he said, how do you explain that?

I don't know.

I think life sometimes is like that.

You try, you try, you try, you try, and you need to try a 13th time for it to happen.