News Details

Sainz: My best-race ever led to ‘very special’ first F1 podium

Carlos Sainz believes turning in the best drive of his career to date led to his maiden Formula 1 podium at the Brazilian Grand Prix. After a loss of power during qualifying left him at the back of the Interlagos grid, the Spaniard recovered from dead last on a one-stop strategy to finish a remarkable fourth on the road during a hectic race. A post-race five-second time penalty issued to Lewis Hamilton for colliding with Alexander Albon on the penultimate lap elevated Sainz onto the podium, ending McLaren’s five-year wait for a rostrum. “Who would have told me yesterday, when I was so angry about the day that everything was going to turnaround and I was going to go from P20 to P3,”...
Full Story »
5y ago from Crash.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Sainz celebrates maiden podium, cleared of DRS breach

Carlos Sainz claimed his first career podium in 101 starts in Formula 1,...
5y ago from F1i.com

Sainz's Brazilian GP podium confirmed

Carlos Sainz's first podium finish in Formula 1 was confirmed after an...
5y ago from GPFans.com

Hamilton penalised, Sainz promoted to Brazil GP podium

Brazilian Grand Prix – Lewis Hamilton has been handed a five-second...
5y ago from FormulaSpy.com

The provisional Brazilian GP grid

Max Verstappen will start Sunday's Brazilian Grand Prix from pole...
5y ago from PlanetF1.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Red Bull eyeing F1 drive for IndyCar champion Alex...

Red Bull is eyeing a move for IndyCar champion Alex Palou to join Max...
17h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Rasmussen’s aggressiveness praised by Ed Carpenter...

Christian Rasmussen won his first IndyCar race on Sunday, partly due to...
16h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s...

harlison and Martín Zubimendi are changing things up at Spurs and...
10h ago from TheGuardian.com

“Top-quality” star edging closer to Arsenal exit...

Arsenal defender Jakub Kiwior could be on his way out of North London this...
15h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Saka set to miss Liverpool clash and England qualifiers

Bukayo Saka is set to miss Arsenal's Premier League clash with Liverpool...
14h ago from SkySports.com

Arsecast Extra Episode 655 – 25.08.2025

Welcome to another Arsecast Extra, the Arsenal podcast, with myself and...
17h ago from Arseblog.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.