Carlos Sainz has insisted that whereas it was irritating to overlook the Barcelona shakedown, he has not misplaced any confidence in Williams.
Williams determined to skip the non-public testing at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya, “following delays within the FW48 programme.”
“Yeah, irritating. Clearly, I am not going to cover away from the truth that I might have cherished to be in Barcelona to get these three days, get the top begin,” Sainz advised the media in Bahrain.
“And yeah, it was at all times going to be the plan, however sadly through the winter we confronted some points, some bumps within the street that we did not anticipate as a crew. And we needed to readapt our plan and do the perfect we may with what we had, and to show up then to Bahrain and had a easy day like yesterday.
“A minimum of for the reason that message again that we did it for a cause and that now we’re operating easily and making an attempt to meet up with the others.”
Carlos Sainz, Williams
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When requested if his confidence had been broken as a result of delays that the crew has confronted, the Spanish driver added: “I would not say the boldness is broken. I believe it is extra a realisation that there is nonetheless a number of areas the place even when we had been podium finishers final 12 months, P5 within the championship, we’re nonetheless not on the stage of the place we need to be by way of evaluating ourselves with prime groups and the best way they execute their winters, their preparations, their change of set of laws.
“We all know there is a huge margin of enchancment in lots of, many areas and but after I got here to Williams I knew this was going to be the case and I am right here for making an attempt to assist in each space.”
The Grove outfit is now in Bahrain for the primary week of pre-season testing and they’re going to have yet another three-day block subsequent week earlier than the season-opening Australian Grand Prix from 6-8 March.
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