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Sainz confused over issues which impacted his qualifying last season

Sainz "confused" over issues which impacted his qualifying last season

04-12-2018 13:06

Carlos Sainz is still "confused" about an instability issue he had at Renault which impacted his ability to score quick times in qualifying sessions.  

Sainz has now left Renault but still does not know what caused the instability problems. The McLaren driver said to Motorsport.com, "when it comes to finding the limits of the Renault car, it was where I tend to struggle a bit."

"I apply just a bit more brake pressure, and I pick up a bit of instability. It's just this thing I've been trying to level out the whole year: trying to pick up the stability when you really try to push the limit, that this car doesn't give me." 

Sainz has said that the instability problem first came about early in the season and found that trying to fix the problem resulted in a loss of speed. 

"It has confused me a lot during the year," he said. "I've been playing a lot with set-ups to take it away, but sometimes I was having to do too many compromises to find the right stability.

"In general, I haven't really managed to take it away 100 percent, I've never been comfortable in qualifying to extract the last two tenths."

Sainz has now moved to McLaren and will hope that he can push the car to its maximum in order to score better results in qualifying.