Carlos Sainz congratulated his former McLaren team-mate Lando Norris for claiming his first drivers’ championship title.
The Spanish driver partnered Norris at McLaren once they each joined the staff collectively in 2019 earlier than Sainz moved to Ferrari in 2021. The motive force duo shortly turned a fan favorite, assuming the title “Carlando”.
The Williams driver made some extent of constructing his means onto the grid following the race to congratulate his former team-mate and buddy.
“Yeah, actually, very joyful for him. I feel he is an amazing F1 driver. I feel unbelievably quick,” Sainz informed the media after the race. “However together with his explicit means of going about life and issues, as a lot as he is acquired criticised loads throughout the previous few years for being how he’s, he is world champion and everybody can preserve dreaming about being F1 world champion whereas he goes about his personal means and does issues his personal means.Â
“So I am extraordinarily joyful for him as a result of he should have felt quite a lot of stress over the previous few weekends and he managed to tug it off.”
Sainz defined he noticed how “extraordinarily fast” Norris was when he joined him on the Woking outfit.
Lando Norris, McLaren
Picture by: Kym Illman / Getty Photos
“Very joyful for him as a driver as a result of he is at all times been an especially fast driver, faster than what folks give him credit score for, extraordinarily proficient,” he informed Sky Sports activities F1.
“The primary years at McLaren, I noticed a man who had the pace to be a number of world champion if it was purely down to hurry.
“Alongside the way in which, he is developed his expertise loads and now he is a world champion.
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“Greater than something, I am joyful for him as an individual as a result of he is a driver that does not comply with the standard stereotypes of a world champion. He is at all times stayed true to himself, very trustworthy, very open about his personal struggles, and confirmed to everybody you could be world champion being a pleasant man, that you do not have to be ruthless or badass.
“Joyful for him. I hope he stays the identical, that it would not get in his head that he is world champion and he retains being himself, or even when he relaxes extra, and may get pleasure from F1 extra.
“He should have suffered a bit this yr with all of the social media stress, journalism stress from criticising him when he was struggling within the first half, then when Max was getting shut. It is by no means straightforward to be world champion with Max respiratory down his neck however he is saved it roughly beneath management.”
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