A great answer from Carlos Sainz on why its so special and emotional to race in Madrid, his home 🇪🇸
"When I was 10 years old, I remember telling my dad, 'I want to be like Fernando Alonso one day.'"
"For me, having a grand prix in Madrid, I was telling Gabi before and Valtteri that this is the house where I grew up. So I would wake up here, go to my karting track, go and train and come back. It’s the house where, when I was 10 years old, I would wake up at 4am, knock on my dad’s door to say, 'It’s Australian Grand Prix time, we need to watch.'"
"So that kid that was 10 years old, already loving Formula 1, would have for sure never thought that he would be a Formula 1 driver one day and that a Grand Prix would come to Madrid and he would be driving in it. So that’s why it’s so special and so emotional."
According to Pirelli, the Madrid circuit ranks among the 5 most demanding on the calendar, with lateral forces comparable in intensity to those recorded at Barcelona and Silverstone
Charles Leclerc might have activated the Spanish curse again 😳
• Crashes in his home GP in Monaco 🇲🇨 • Next GP is in Spain 🇪🇸 • Also DNFs in Spain 😬 • Crashes in Ferrari’s home GP in Monza 🇮🇹 • Next GP is in Spain 🇪🇸 • …. 😬
Lewis Hamilton - 106 Max Verstappen - 71 Fernando Alonso - 32 Lando Norris - 13 Valtteri Bottas - 10 Charles Leclerc - 9 Oscar Piastri - 9 George Russell - 7 Kimi Antonelli - 7 Sergio Pérez - 6 Carlos Sainz - 4 Esteban Ocon - 1 Pierre Gasly - 1
