Carlos Sainz is not having the beginning waiting in Williams. After being morale in its premiere in the postseason tests in Abu Dhabi and to emerge in the preseason in Bahrainwhere it marked the best time of three days, the Formula 1 2025 World Cup It has been presented as a jug of cold water for Madrid.
In addition to having proven to find something lost with your accident in the first round of the race in the Australian Grand Prix And throughout the weekend in Chinathe Spanish pilot has been harmed by his own team for a series of decisions that are mainly based on the budget.
Williams is very diminished from the flood of accidents that Alex Albon and Franco Colapint They starred in the last four events of the last championship. Between Brazil, Qatar and Abu Dhabihis duo crashed six times, which was a tremendous economic hole for the leader that he leads James Vowles. Although this focused on denying on multiple occasions that this ‘sexte’ of clashes was not going to have any consequence, the truth is that Sainz has already ‘paid’ the ride and the broken dishes of each of them.
Sainz has started the World Cup with a different chassis from Albon’s Melbourne as has been demonstrated in all sessions. Such is the advantage that the Thai marches sixth in the pilot table with 16 points and has Williams fourth in builders, ahead of his former team, the one who sacrificed him to sign Lewis Hamilton And that such skateboard committed in Shanghai It cost him a double disqualification, unprecedented sanction in F1.
Sainz’s rugged start
Albon is running with the chassis that did the Sainz car so much in both Yas Marina as in Sakhirwith which he marked the second half of the post season and the first of the tests prior to the World Cup. This is because Williams’s budget limit is directly affected by those six accidents that Thai and Colapint had in the last four appointments of 2024, forcing his team to repair counterreloj so as not to go through the painful drink of not taking out their cars to the track.
What is expected in the English team is that from Japan GP Sainz can set up the car of this season, which will give you a plus of performance if it maintains its level of testing of the tests. “I have suffered a lot with the front degradation, opening the tires a lot both in the average and in the hard, and it has not gone fast,” he said.
«There is much to analyze. It is a bit confusing, because I was very fast in the Abu Dhabi and Bahrein tests, and for some reason all the fast in the tests has vanished in a stroke in this first real race with the team, ”Sainz himself detected, who hopes to turn the suffering of the first two races into a rush at the height of Albon.
