Carlos Sainz came home a solid eighth place at the Hungaroring and admits it was ‘impossible’ to overtake McLaren’s Fernando Alonso highlighting the difficulties of overtaking in Hungary and the improvements made by Honda to their engine.
The Spaniard qualified a joint career best of sixth place, however, was passed by his fellow countryman at the start.
Sainz was unable to overtake Alonso, but he was encouraged by the pace Toro Rosso had shown in Hungary.
“A solid race from us here in Budapest, I’m satisfied with the result. I’m pretty pleased with the race, even if Fernando Alonso got past us at the start.
“We were able to keep up with McLaren’s pace, something that during the practice sessions on Friday and Saturday didn’t look like we’d be able to do… It was just impossible to overtake him!”
Sainz now sits 10th in the Drivers’ Championship and has his sights on Felipe Massa, who is eight points ahead in ninth.
“If you would have told me I’d finish P8 after the bad start to the weekend that we had, I wouldn’t have believed it!
“I think we can be very happy and pleased with ourselves – the team did a great job to turn things around and I’d like to thank them for this! We can now go to Germany feeling confident.”
