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Close to 5 tenths faster than his teammate

doing my part as a beautiful woman named anonymous to send you carlos glazing🫡🫡 LOL 

btw shoutout to edd straw (who does the race’s driver rankings) for lowkey turning into a sainzista between the 2025 and 2026 seasons for some reason lol. i literally had the race blocked on twitter last year because the driver rankings (at least pre-baku) were always pissing me off lmao. but this year he’s put carlos in the top 10 of his ratings at every race except australia (Genuinely As He Should.) and even put him first in china (which is especially notable when china is nawt even a good carlos track!! it’s one of the three or four races on the calendar where he still hasn’t got a podium rip and he was STILL able to absolutely maximise the weekend this year and be recognised for doing so!!). and of course i'm joking about the sainzista bit lol but it is nice to see at least some journalists recognising that he’s driving far better than his results in that shitbox of a car suggest. i’ve not really seen many others notice it so. and i know obviously that’s just part of the nature of not being a frontrunner that people are not going to pay nearly as much attention to your performance and all that but it still kind of sucks lmao especially when he’s been driving so well this year. like of course i’m biased but i genuinely think he’s been one of the best drivers of the season considering the machinery he has and no one who isn’t directly paying attention to all the insane miracles he’s been pulling will ever think that or believe me lmfao

At least Carlos seems to think that the Silverstone package will make some difference? Multiple times today he’s either directly referenced the upgrades coming or said something along of the lines of hoping this will be the last really difficult weekend or that they’ll soon be able to start trying to catch the top of the midfield. Misplaced optimism? Knowing Williams, probably!! But at least he didn’t say “I don’t think there will be much difference until the Baku upgrade package” or anything like that (and I feel relatively confident that if he thought that he’d just say it straight up). Either way I guess we’ll all find out next week lol. Also surprised at his comments about feeling like the top teams are able to bring more upgrades and that Williams are maybe not managing the cost cap finances as efficiently… (Maybe that’s something that will also fall under the purview of that Piers guy they signed from Mcl?)

Carlos is such a good qualifier I forget sometimes since it’s not like in his top 3 or so strongest skills as a driver (just off the top of my head I’d at least put strategy, car set up and engineering input/feedback, and tyre + more general race management above, maybe something else if I think through it more thoroughly) and because he was up against the best qualifier on the grid for four years lmao. But he’s still so fucking fast I hate that it virtually makes no difference right now ughhhhhhhh