‘We paid a price today for the penalty in Austin’ – Sainz on his P17 finish in Mexico

Carlos, that looked like a long, difficult afternoon for you out there, the pit lane issues, the speeding, can you talk us through it from your side? Yeah, in the end, we had contact in Turn 1, a big melee of three or four cars side by side. In that contact, we damaged the rim of the first sets of tyres, which were giving massive vibrations. We lost all the sensors of the front tyres, which meant we lost the possibility to engage the pit limiter, which every time I was going through a pit lane, we were having issues because the sensor wasn't reading, and I didn't know at which speed I was going, so every time we were in the pits, we were getting a penalty, which in the end, even if we were on for point scoring position today, we just had too many issues in the car, too many issues from that Turn 1 race. Still a great qualifying this weekend, that pre-race penalty putting you out of position in the first place. Still positives for you to take from this one? In the end, probably we would have started P7, none of this would have happened, so the unfair penalty of Austin, in the end, we paid a price today.