Carlos Sainz has shared his plans for the System 1 summer time break, explaining that he will likely be within the Balearic Islands together with his household.
Sainz completed 18th and two laps down on the Hungaroring on Sunday, a race received by McLaren’s Lando Norris. The Spaniard’s Hungarian Grand Prix was additional compromised by a collision with Oscar Piastri whereas being lapped, which hampered the McLaren driver and resulted in a five-second penalty for Sainz.
The 31-year-old heads into the summer time break fifteenth within the drivers’ championship on six factors, together with his Williams team-mate Alex Albon in sixteenth on 5 factors. The Grove outfit slipped to ninth within the constructors’ championship after the Hungarian Grand Prix.
“I usually spend my summer time within the Balearic Islands,” Sainz mentioned throughout an look on The Quick And The Curious podcast. “I am going to spend most of my time in Mallorca. Mallorca is the place my mother and father’ house is for the summer time.
“My complete household goes there for nearly a month. They set up themselves there, and I get to go there for a few weeks and simply hang around with the people who I really like.”
Carlos Sainz, Williams
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Whereas the August break presents the drivers an opportunity to disconnect from the demanding F1 calendar, Sainz confirmed he’ll combine a coaching programme into his day off.
“Generally my group of associates come in direction of the top, and we do a little bit of a coaching camp earlier than I fly to Zandvoort,” he added. “Then I soar round Ibiza, Menorca, simply with the boat to go to another associates across the islands that I’ve there. Truthfully, I have been doing that for 30 years, and that is the whole lot I do in summer time.”
Williams is anticipated to introduce main upgrades later within the yr, across the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
F1 will resume following the summer time shutdown on the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.
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