Carlos Sainz: We're looking for the weak spots in the car.

      In an interview with Motorsport Week, Carlos Sainz said he still hasn’t gotten to grips with the Williams car, but is doing everything with the team to make sure these problems don’t recur next year.

      Carlos Sainz: “I know I have the pace. But I haven’t been able to find a common language with this car. It has weaknesses that can’t be worked around through setup. To put in a good lap time you have to drive this car very specifically, and that doesn’t quite match my driving style.

      But I know I can be quick even with these issues. Not quick enough to work miracles, because I don’t feel it well enough, but quick enough. My goal this year is to ensure that on those weekends when it clicks for us, when we have a good chance to score points, we seize those chances and score.

      Right now we’re looking for the car’s weak spots. Where are they? In the aerodynamics, in the suspension, in the setup? Where is that hidden trait that makes the car so specific and weak to the point that in Hungary we were almost a second a lap behind Ferrari, although on some circuits we may even have been faster than them.

      It must be something very important that we didn’t know and weren’t accounting for. While designing next year’s car, we’re trying to understand what’s wrong with this car and its predecessors, because the 2022, 2023 and 2024 cars had the same issue. What is this characteristic of Williams cars that always makes them relatively weak compared to their rivals?”