Now the "pressure" to win a final time with
Ferrari has dissipated, Carlos Sainz feels he is in the position to capitalise
on "every single opportunity" presented to him over the final four
rounds of the 2024 F1 season.
Carlos Sainz has conceded he was starting to feel
self-inflicted pressure to win a final race with Ferrari before
departing the team at the end of the 2024 F1 season.
The 30-year-old vanquished that self-imposed demand at
the Mexico City
Grand Prix, winning from pole in a dominant display.
When the Spaniard moves to Williams, he will
likely lose the opportunity to grace the podium for the foreseeable future.
That has left him wanting to extract the most out of his remaining time in
race-winning machinery.
Despite winning in Australia earlier in the year, Sainz
wanted to close out his Ferrari chapter with a final victory. In doing so, he
took multiple wins in a single season for the first time in his F1 career.
"I think the important thing is that we got that
win," he told media including RacingNews365 at Interlagos
ahead of this weekend's São Paulo Grand Prix. "I was putting a lot of
pressure on myself, on my shoulders, to try and get another win before the end
of the year.
"I was starting to feel that pressure that I was putting onto myself, so I'm so happy that I did that, and I did it in the way I did it in Mexico - and happy that it coincided with my family [being] there, who have been a great support to me."
