Hungaroring the ‘worst track’ for hurtful Q2 crash – Sainz

Carlos Sainz admits the Hungaroring is the “worst track” to crash out on after doing so during Q2 at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

With Ferrari looking strong as potential midfield leaders, the Spaniard took himself out of contention by finding the barriers at the final corner resulting in, at best, a P15 start.

And explaining the incident, the Spaniard pointed to a rather familiar cause of crashes such as his in recent years…

“I was honestly completely puzzled about it because I didn’t understand what I did wrong or did differently,” he told Sky Sports.

“If anything I went into the last corner slower than in the previous lap, my Q1 lap, because I felt like the tyre and the wind were a bit more different.

“So I went in slower than in the previous lap, and somehow I still lost the car. So I went with the engineers to have a good check, and we found out that instead of having a 10kph headwind I had a 35kph gust, and this probably made me lose the rear.”

Sainz had enjoyed an edge on teammate Charles Leclerc, who eventually qualified P8, before the incident, but now he fears a long Sunday is in store on a circuit that is notoriously tough to pass on.

“I’m not used to doing these sort of mistakes so it hurts quite a lot to do them,” he said. “I apologise to the team and I’m not going to use the wind as an excuse, just take it on the chin.

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“I think it is part of the learning process. Unfortunately, it is the worst track to have this sort of issue.

“Tomorrow will be a challenging day and tonight I will study with the team what we can do to recover as much ground as possible.

“It’s unfortunate because Q1 run one was so strong, and it was one of my strongest laps as a Ferrari driver,” Sainz claimed.

“Then to have this problem here, it hurts.”