Carlos Sainz aims for progress in the Canadian GP

Saturday, 23 May 2026:
- Sprint: P10, 23 laps
- Qualifying: P15, 1:14.273, 21 laps

• Carlos Sainz finished fifteenth in the Qualifying session of the Canadian GP and now the question mark is whether the growing risk of rain that is seen in the weather forecast will actually happen in tomorrow’s race.
• The Spanish driver has optimized the FW48 together with his team since yesterday, but Q3 was unreachable. In the best-case scenario, he thinks he could have gone two or three tenths faster had he had a perfect final lap.
• Carlos finished tenth in this morning’s Sprint, where his car didn’t have more performance. Overtaking proved to be challenging in this track.

QUOTES:
“A more challenging day today. We made good progress on setup overnight and the car had the pace to be in the top 12, however in the last run of Q2 I lost a few tenths in the first sector which proved costly, although I honestly think Q3 was out of reach today".

“If the rain comes tomorrow, this will be the first time we run wet tyres in these new regulations. It will be a challenge for all the teams to understand the tyres and energy deployment in wet conditions, so it will be interesting to see how it unfolds and we’ll try to make the most out of the race".

COMING UP:
Sunday, 24 May 2026:
- Race: 16:00 local time (22:00 CEST)