Carlos For GQ France In Cannes

carlossainz55 Enjoyed the weekend off. Time to get back to work, triple header coming up!

So glad to hear from Marta herself that she's fine, what a scary crash it was

carlos spun out of the race due to a sudden torque surge, and no fault of his own, and still proceeded to go back to the pit walls and make calls regarding strategy that resulted in alex finishing in p4. people need to quit comparing and pitting the two against each other and instead look at what they're doing for the team. carlos is a big part of how much the car has improved from last year, and alex has been loyal to the team for years and is very deserving of his good result today. if you're doing anything other than celbrate williams' p4 in the team standings above some big teams, shut up.

alex has lost all patience with strategy blunders now that he knows what it's like to have a good strategist at williams (carlos)

I have said this before (and will probably say it again and again) but I am so happy that Carlos is in Williams. He is an extremely talented driver and intelligent, he knows his stuff. Williams loves and appreciates him. He has a great teammate in Alex Albon who also is an extremely talented driver and very intelligent who also knows his stuff and they seem to have so much fun together

I'm too easily pleased...damn it

okay. not that anyone asked but here's My Take on the williams torment nexus

honestly a communication breakdown on the pit wall

similar to vegas last year actually, with charles told carlos wouldn't overtake and carlos not actually told that. alex's engineer was like "go ahead" when alex said he could overtake, but carlos was told the opposite thing

the real things that fucked up carlos's race were a) the regular ass first lap incident in turn 3 and the resultant damage; b) building a 3sec gap so the team could double stack for inters (didn't happen) and then coming out behind hulk as a result; c) the timing of the vsc; d) team using his new mediums for the sprint

his pace was good despite the damage (very positive)

good to get the growing pains out now while they're fighting for p5-p9 than when they're fighting for p1

alex mostly blameless and also extremely brave and strong in p5!!!

the synchronized pass on merc + ferrari at the same time was absolutely gorgeous i'm so happy

honestly when the main reason you end up behind the ferraris (and he might've had the pace to get kimi) is because of vsc timing and some damage, that's still honestly a good race

Chinese GP '25 // Thurs Interview

“[On his crash in Australia] On my way back from the car to the paddock, (I beat myself up). Then, once I had a look at the data and saw what happened, I felt a lot more relieved... There's still these very small details that sometimes, in 99% of the cases, will not [catch] you out, but the first time that you run a certain mode, with certain quality of upshift, in certain low grip situations that, obviously, I've never experienced before in this team, it caught me out. And it meant a very bad ending to what had been, until then, a positive weekend. So, we learn from it. But it's these kind of experiences that you need to go through to make steps with the team and to move forward and progress.”

Presenting you the New and my favourite member of Team 55, Dominique Heyer-Wright 😻

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