Carlos Sainz says he used his closing laps in a Ferrari through the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to arrange himself to have the ability to examine vehicles as soon as he jumped into the Williams for testing.
Ferrari has allowed Sainz to participate within the post-race Pirelli tire take a look at on Tuesday for Williams, and that was preceded by a filming day on Monday the place he might full restricted mileage on demonstration tires. Sainz insists the transition into his subsequent chapter is just not one thing he envisages being significantly troublesome as a result of he was already excited about how he might take learnings to Williams.
“Being very sincere with you, I don’t suppose (it’ll be exhausting),” Sainz mentioned after Sunday’s race. “I’m not going to lie, my final laps, as a lot as I used to be pushing like hell for (Ferrari) and making an attempt, I used to be already beginning to really feel issues within the automotive and making an attempt to say, bear in mind how this feels. as a result of (on Monday) and Tuesday I would like to recollect why is that this automotive fast on this nook and why does it really feel good?
“As a result of I do know most likely what I’m going to seek out (on Monday) and Tuesday wants some margin of enchancment within the corners that I used to be feeling the automotive. So this simply sums up that I’m already trying additionally forward. I’m extraordinarily motivated for the problem that I’ve forward of me.
“(Sunday) is a day to attempt to take pleasure in as a lot as attainable with the group as my final day in crimson. We nonetheless have some days in Maranello arising, however clearly my aggressive thoughts is already trying ahead to Monday and Tuesday and to see how I could make that Williams automotive quicker.”
Sainz adopted his filming day with the very best whole of any single driver throughout Tuesday’s Pirelli take a look at, finishing 146 laps and setting the second quickest time behind former teammate Charles Leclerc, after spending nearly all of the day on the high of the standings.
