Former Ferrari teammates Carlos Senn and Charles Leclerc went dwelling on a street journey after being caught after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Sainz and Leclerc had been meant to return to a flight to Good following Sunday’s race in Baku, however had been cancelled as a result of storm and the pair resorted to a voluntary last-minute street journey within the “van.”
Leclerc revealed an attention-grabbing state of affairs in a video clip that went viral on social media.
“So after a troublesome weekend in Baku, I did not assume it will worsen, however…” Leclair mentioned earlier than turning again to the digicam and exhibiting Sainz on the wheels with him.
The scale was then defined as follows: “We’re driving a van! In the course of Italy. We had been detoured as a result of storm. We could not land properly, so we landed in the midst of Italy. We rented a van.
The Spaniard jokingly mentioned, “We’ll make it in an hour and a half.”
The contrasting weekend between Sainz and Leclerc
Sainz loved a memorable weekend in Baku.
The four-time Grand Prix winner, who misplaced Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari seat earlier than switching to Williams this season, has declared it the “finest podium” of his System One profession.
“I am unable to clarify how completely satisfied I’m and the way good this feels. This tastes even higher than my first podium,” mentioned the uplifted Sainz.
“We have been preventing onerous all 12 months spherical, however after we had pace, we had all of it 12 months spherical and every thing got here collectively and we might do wonderful issues collectively.
“We nailed the race, not only one mistake. Yesterday we managed to beat quite a lot of automobiles that we did not count on to defeat.”
Signal celebrated the milestone podium in Baku
For Leclerc and Ferrari, it proved to be one other overwhelming weekend to neglect.
Monegasque got here in ninth behind his teammates and seven-time World Hamilton.
“That is proper, however I’ve to take duty for the qualifying spherical,” Leclerc instructed Sky Sports activities F1. “I made a mistake yesterday within the third quarter, so I did not go yesterday.
“However I wasn’t doing an excellent job till this weekend, and in qualifying, I’ll pay for my errors within the third quarter and its phrases.
“I did not try this this weekend. At this time we had been principally caught in site visitors and we had been getting a little bit of a cube that is the perfect technique, so we’ll pay that worth.
“Sadly, we had been in the identical technique because the automotive we had a little bit extra struggling, however Liam was doing a very good job, having actually good straight speeds and it was unimaginable to overhaul us even when we had extra tempo.
