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Carlos Sainz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
547 total appearances

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F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

And I said, the next one of these is Qatar.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

And for whatever reason, we did do some extra work in the team.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

We said, let's prepare Qatar in a different way.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

Let's try and put together a car that is a bit away, or let's say out of our comfort zone for Qatar.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

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.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

We did a good options on the setup.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

And like always, when you work hard, when you think out of the box and when you try, sometimes you get surprises.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

Yeah, sometimes I'm a bit of an overthinker and I consider myself someone that uses the head a lot.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

And sometimes last year, probably I was spending the first 10, 12 races trying things

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

outside of the box that didn't work, you need to remember in F1 there's no testing.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

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.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

We cannot test outside of a race weekend.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

So we need to use race weekends to test the setup directions that help our adaptation to the team.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

Now, what happens if

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

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.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

And if the car is on that other baseline setup, it's because this never works.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

But you still want to try it because you say, it might work for me.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

Well, 80% of the times, never works.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

Let's say until you find one or two items that work for you.

F1 Beyond The Grid
Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

Unfortunately, I don't think 25 helps me much in going into 26.