The Las Vegas Grand Prix noticed—but once more this season—Carlos Sainz racing with out contemplating Ferrari’s greatest pursuits.
Charles Leclerc can not tolerate his dismissive conduct, particularly when the main focus must be on the Constructors’ Championship.
Carlos Sainz like Didier Pironi: defying orders
The Spanish driver made headlines on Saturday in Nevada by securing a podium end. Nonetheless, post-race controversies have been removed from absent; in actual fact, they have been greater than justified given his unacceptable perspective.
In the course of the race, the 29-year-old disobeyed workforce orders on two events: first, delaying a place swap with a sooner Charles Leclerc by demanding that the workforce name him into the pits as a substitute of letting him move; then overtaking Charles Leclerc as he exited the pit lane after his ultimate cease, securing a transfer that finally earned him the rostrum.
To be clear, Ferrari’s workforce end result wouldn’t have modified; a 3rd and fourth place was the utmost achievable. Nonetheless, that’s not the purpose. The problem is that Carlos Sainz persistently ignores pre-agreed workforce methods, as famous by his teammate.
“Not following workforce orders is comprehensible; in any case, he’s already been let go by Ferrari,” one would possibly argue. But his outright disregard for the workforce is way from respectable.
Disagree with what you’re being requested? Provide a short clarification and make sure you’re continuing in a different way—it might actually earn you extra respect.
Given how a lot pleasure Carlos claims to have, why undermine Ferrari’s Constructors’ Championship struggle? At that stage of the race, the precedence was to maximise the end result for each drivers to realize as many factors as potential in opposition to McLaren.
To reiterate, in hindsight, Ferrari achieved the very best end result (making the ending order between the 2 irrelevant for the workforce). Nonetheless, throughout the race, nobody might have recognized that.
What’s undeniably vital, although, is Carlos Sainz’s dismissive perspective, exhibiting no dedication to a title that—on the subject of “private pleasure”—ought to matter to him.
What higher strategy to depart Maranello than by serving to the workforce win a championship after 16 years? What higher legacy than to be fondly remembered by the followers? For Carlos Sainz, nonetheless, it appears extra essential to boost his private report with a podium than contribute to a Constructors’ title.
Charles Leclerc has had sufficient
On the opposite facet of the storage, Charles Leclerc is fed up, having all the time prioritized the workforce’s pursuits. At Silverstone in 2022, regardless of being in rivalry for the Drivers’ Championship (a marketing campaign that ended poorly), he swallowed the inexplicable resolution to favor Carlos Sainz’s late-race victory, even after dominating the race with a broken entrance wing. At Singapore in 2023, he intentionally gave Carlos Sainz a security hole to assist him safe Ferrari’s solely win of the season, stating after the race: “What issues is that Ferrari received.”
Now, nonetheless, he finds himself listening to that Sainz was instructed to not assault him, solely to see him overtake with ease and with out hesitation.
With solely two Grands Prix left in Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari profession, one factor is evident from his 4 years at Maranello: he has all the time raced for his personal pursuits, exhibiting little respect for a workforce working in direction of a shared aim reasonably than a slim, unrealistic ambition of being the higher driver.
Sadly for the followers, not everyone seems to be like Villeneuve or Leclerc; some are like Sainz and Pironi. And the primary to acknowledge this is able to seemingly be Enzo Ferrari himself, who turned his ardour into an impressive actuality and all the time emphasised: “Ferrari first, all the time earlier than the drivers.”
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