Sainz: "If the drivers don't see anything, you're telling fate to do whatever comes to mind"

MADRID, 9 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish driver Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) has regretted the decision to contest the Japanese Grand Prix in extreme rain conditions, a situation that caused him to lose control of his car on the first lap of the Suzuka Circuit.

"What is clear is that if the pilots do not see anything, you are telling fate to do whatever it occurs to do on a day like today because the eighteen pilots who came behind me apparently have not even seen me. I was stopped in the middle of the track and it was pure luck that they didn't hit me," he told DAZN.

In addition, the man from Madrid explained that all the single-seaters started "with the intermission", but when the start "the conditions were extreme". "There was a lot of aquaplaning, there was practically no visibility. In one of these I tried to get out of the wake of 'Checo' to see something and I ran into a puddle and I did 'aquaplaning' and I lost the car," he said.

"The worst has come later, when you are right in the middle of the track and you know that the others do not see you. They are conditions a bit on the limit, I do not know what they will think to do because the track and the visibility at the end were impracticable", he concluded.