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Sainz ‘confused' as pre-season pace vanishes

Mar.24 Carlos Sainz is leaving Shanghai scratching his head about 'one of the strangest drops in performance I've had in my career'. Having lost his Ferrari race seat and accepted a backwards step down the grid, the 30-year-old Spaniard actually impressed in his new Williams early on. He crashed in the opening moments of the treacherous season opener in Australia, and so Shanghai sprint and main races ultimately came as a big shock to Sainz. 'I'm a bit confused,' the four-time grand prix winner told DAZN. 'I was very fast in the (2024) Abu Dhabi tests, I was very fast in Bahrain, and for some reason, all the pace I had in the tests has vanished in one fell swoop in this first real race...
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