Carlos Sainz, Alexander Albon understand the reasons behind double Williams disqualification from F1 Singapore GP qualifying, but hopes the mistakes don’t happen again.
It was already not so good qualifying for Williams in F1 Singapore GP when both Sainz and Albon were knocked out in Q2, the post-session disqualification only added to its misery. They were sent to the back of the grid, where the Thai decided to start from the pitlane.
Even though Sainz recovered to P10 after some team strategy play, they missed out on a potential P7-P8 result considering the pace of the car. It only added to the mistake column which the Spaniard alluded to. He was quite open to admit the mistakes made by Williams this year.
But he isn’t counting them as mistake. He is more taking it as a learning for the F1 team for the seasons ahead. “It’s definitely not hard feelings between any of us,” said Sainz to media. “I think the team acknowledges we’re still making mistakes in these kind of things which can happen. We are in a building year of trying to become a better team and definitely in qualifying, we all did mistakes.
“I did mistakes in my quali lap that cost us a Q3. The team did a mistake with the legality of the rear wing on both cars. A mistake with Alex in FP1 with the brakes. You know we’re still making mistakes, all of us, as long as we don’t repeat mistakes and we keep learning. That’s I think the key for us,” summed up Sainz, as teammate Albon equally backed his team.
He sees the rear wing problem as an easy fix. Already James Vowles released a statement during the weekend that they will undertake investigation to understand why it did not pass the FIA test, when it cleared the internal test. “Just processes I think,” said Albon. “We understand why we fell through in terms of legality, of course that was not the intention, just one of it. It is a really easy fix, we just let these things not happen again.”
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