Carlos Sainz has played down the disruption F1 sessions could endure at Madrid next weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Madring will make its F1 debut when it hosts round 14 of the 2026 season, taking over as the location of the Spanish Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The track has been under construction for several years and recently held an in-season Formula 3 test in anticipation of the maiden race event.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
During the test, 19 red flags were deployed across two days, 11 of which were for contact with the barrier.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It has generated concern that it could mean chaos for F1 this weekend, with Sainz acknowledging that the track will be a major challenge.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the way they’ve put the barriers and the design of the track, it’s going to be one of the biggest challenges in F1 recently,\u201d\u00a0he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThe track reminds me a lot of Jeddah, reminds me a lot of Baku, even reminds me a bit of Macau in some ways.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cSo having that in F1 with 1,000 horsepower is going to be quite an interesting challenge.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, Sainz insisted that F1 is no stranger to dealing with the challenge of high-speed street tracks with close barriers.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As a result, he does not expect the weekend to to feature many chaotic incidents.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking at the track and hearing of what happened in the F3 test, I think we are all expecting safety cars and red flags and yellow flags in quali.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it’s been a fashion or a tendency of F1 to go to these kind of tracks like Jeddah or Baku that are closer to the city.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have more walls, and we haven’t had any issues with it. The races actually seem to be going quite well at every place we’ve gone.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s that same similar trend that we’re going towards.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has played down the disruption F1 sessions could endure at Madrid next weekend. The Madring will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17886,17889,17887,17890,17888,11454,315,13765,82,17609,13755,801],"class_list":["post-83205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-madrid","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}