Sainz: “We had a good race pace, but we are still far from our rivals”

The reason for the Virtual Safety Car Having archived the previous GP in Barcelona, ​​where Alexander Albon had celebrated in the worst possible way the absolute record of races at the wheel of the Williams as an unclassified, the Austrian GP this time turned its back on Carlos Sainz. The Spaniard, in the 23rd of the 70 total laps, was in fact betrayed by a battery failure on the starting straight, with the former Ferrari driver forced to park the car on the side of the track. Not all negative For this reason, in order to allow the marshals to bring the car back to the pits, the race saw the only Virtual Safety Car, with the son of the two-time world rally champion obviously saddened by the retirement: “Today we had a better race pace than in practice, but ultimately we are still quite far from the pace of our rivals – he commented after the technical knockout – we made some changes that made the car more drivable and we found ourselves fighting with cars that we didn’t expect to have to face, which is a positive sign. Unfortunately, however, a problem with the power unit caused my car to suddenly shut down. It’s clear that we are not where we want to be in terms of performance, but we will bring a small update to Silverstone which will hopefully put us back in a more competitive position.” Updates at Silverstone Overall a disappointing weekend also for Alexander Albon, only 17th at the finish line and second to last among the classified. The Anglo-Thai, however, looks with optimism to the next home GP of Williams, which will bring an important package of updates to Silverstone: “It was a disappointing weekend overall; we simply didn’t have the pace to compete with the mid-table group. We had problems with tire degradation and we lacked pace in the medium and high speed corners, so there is a lot to analyze ahead of the next race. We are currently experimenting and exploring every possibility to find better performance before the updates arrive. Looking to Silverstone, we will bring a small package of updates that we hope will bring us closer to teams like Haas and VCARB, so hopefully these updates are the start of a journey in the right direction.”

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2026-06-30 15:00:00