Sunday, 5 December 2021
-    Race: P8, 50 laps

• Carlos Sainz recovered seven places in the mayhem of the Saudi Arabian GP, which had two red flags, one Safety-Car and four Virtual Safety-Cars.
• The Spanish Ferrari driver did a blistering first stint on the Hard tyre moving up to ninth by the time the first Red Flag was waved at the track.
• This circumstance forced him to switch to Medium tyres earlier than he hoped for, thus the reason why his tyres lost performance in the final laps and Carlos lost position to his teammate, who he had overtaken earlier in the race.

QUOTES:
“This was a fun race to drive and we cannot be too disappointed starting from fifteenth and finishing in eighth place. I had a good start and I was able to attack immediately making up some places on the Hard tyre, which was working really well. Unfortunately the first Safety Car and Red Flag came out too early for my interests. We had no choice but to put the Mediums on even though we knew we had to let them last 36 laps".

"We had a very strong pace at the beginning of the second stint, making it up to seventh and catching Gasly ahead, but towards the end my tyres were completely finished, and in the final laps we couldn’t do anything to keep my position to Charles that was on the Hard compound.”
“It’s a shame for yesterday’s qualifying as I’m convinced we could have finished higher up the rank, but I’m happy to have been able to score points again. Now we look forward to Abu Dhabi to end the season on a high!”.

COMING UP:
Abu Dhabi GP, Yas Marina Circuit – 10-12 December 2021