Carlos Sainz rues ‘tough’ run of races as he says ‘everything that could go wrong this year has gone wrong for me’

Carlos Sainz has given his reflections on what has been a “powerful” run of races for himself and Williams in the course of the first half of the season, with the Spaniard stating that “all the pieces that might go unsuitable this yr up to now has gone unsuitable for me”.

The Grove-based outfit are presently holding fifth place within the Teams’ Championship on 59 factors, placing them 18 factors away from closest rivals Kick Sauber in sixth.

Nevertheless, 46 of those factors have been earned by Alex Albon, with Sainz going through a run of inauspicious weekends that has seen him fail to attain since a P10 end in Canada.

The 30-year-old was unable to start the Austrian Grand Prix because of a problem along with his automobile, whereas contact with the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc dropped him down the order one week later at Silverstone, that means that he crossed the road in P12.

Requested earlier on within the British Grand Prix weekend about what he had discovered up to now within the first half of the season, Sainz conceded: “Undoubtedly we’re going by a troublesome interval with reliability points, with weekend execution issues as you may see [in Austria], and the previous couple of weekends I believe have been extraordinarily tough for us as a staff.

“For me on my aspect of the storage, working by a number of points in Qualifying and the race, the one factor that retains me hopeful and assured is that my velocity has all the time been there all year long.

“In order that’s one thing that we have to simply financial institution on and ensure that we cease making these errors and making the type of points which might be hampering us in essential moments of the weekend.”

Reflecting additional on the issues which have stricken him at a number of races, Sainz reiterated that he’s nonetheless taking positives from the truth that he feels comfy within the Williams FW47.

“I believe all the pieces that might go unsuitable this yr up to now has gone unsuitable for me, and it has been a run of races the place we have had highlights and a few good moments, however within the majority of it it has been very scrappy from each half concerned,” the four-time race winner defined.

“We’re eager to get this run of unhealthy races to an finish, as a result of we’re making too many errors for the automobile that we’ve got.

“The one factor that retains me smiling is the velocity that I’ve within the automobile and with the staff, and I do know we must be ending each weekend as high of the midfield, aside from possibly Barcelona and some different locations.

“The velocity is there, I really feel comfy within the automobile, we simply do not appear to get a break by way of luck and execution of the weekend [and] reliability.

“Simply approach too many points for the automobile we’ve got, however sooner or later it may finish and as quickly as I get a little bit of momentum going I do know what we’re able to doing.”

Sainz will likely be hoping for higher when System 1 heads to Belgium for the subsequent spherical on the calendar in the course of the weekend of July 25-27.