Carlos Sainz
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And I said, the next one of these is Qatar.
And for whatever reason, we did do some extra work in the team.
We said, let's prepare Qatar in a different way.
Let's try and put together a car that is a bit away, or let's say out of our comfort zone for Qatar.
Let's believe that the job we did in Hungary and Barcelona is not good enough, and let's put something a bit different and take a bit more risk going into Qatar, knowing it's also a sprint.
We did a good options on the setup.
And like always, when you work hard, when you think out of the box and when you try, sometimes you get surprises.
Yeah, sometimes I'm a bit of an overthinker and I consider myself someone that uses the head a lot.
And sometimes last year, probably I was spending the first 10, 12 races trying things
outside of the box that didn't work, you need to remember in F1 there's no testing.
And part of the reason of why drivers, when we go to new teams, it takes us a long time to adapt is because we cannot test.
We cannot test outside of a race weekend.
So we need to use race weekends to test the setup directions that help our adaptation to the team.
Now, what happens if
let's say 80% of the times, whenever we test something, it doesn't work because it has been tested before by all the other drivers.
And if the car is on that other baseline setup, it's because this never works.
But you still want to try it because you say, it might work for me.
Well, 80% of the times, never works.
Let's say until you find one or two items that work for you.
Unfortunately, I don't think 25 helps me much in going into 26.