Carlos Sainz has spoken in regards to the impromptu highway journey he and Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc had been compelled to take after the Components 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
After celebrating his first podium end with Williams, the Spanish driver hoped to return residence as regular that very same night. However storms in Good meant that he and Leclerc, together with the Monegasque driver’s associates, Joris Trouche and Antoine Truchet, had their flight diverted to Italy.
Sainz, who then drove the group of 4 again to Monaco in a rental van, defined that whereas it was a irritating state of affairs, it led to recollections that he’ll look again on when he’s previous.
“Bit hectic touchdown in an airport so late, having to hire a van, having to leap in a van with all the baggage and having to drive again residence for a few hours,” Sainz defined throughout an occasion for Hackett London.
“However ultimately, I used to be reflecting on it, we had been very pissed off as a result of we actually wished to land in Good and [have a] 20-minute drive, however then you consider it and also you say these are the sort of days that you just keep in mind.
“If we might have landed in Good and we might have simply taken the conventional 20-minute residence taxi or no matter, we might by no means do not forget that day or that second. But it surely’s these little adventures that you’ll keep in mind if you find yourself older.”
Leclerc initially shared a video of the group as they launched into their sudden highway journey.
“So, after a tough weekend in Baku, I assumed it could not get any worse, however…” Leclerc stated as he confirmed the darkish highway forward of them.
“We’re driving a van!” Sainz stated. “In the course of Italy,” he stated when requested the place they had been. “We had been diverted for a storm, we could not land in Good, so we landed in the course of Italy. We rented a van, and now we’re on our approach to Monaco.
“A two-hour drive, and we’ll make it in a single hour and a half,” he joked.
Reviews later emerged on social media of a close to miss between two planes at Good Côte d’Azur Airport, the place Sainz and Leclerc had been planning to land. An easyJet flight was moments away from taking off when a Nouvelair flight began to land on the unsuitable runway, narrowly lacking the easyJet airplane. Fortunately, no accidents had been reported.
