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Sirotkin thinks Sauber "unreachable" this year

15:19, 11 Aug 2018

byNicolás Quarles van Ufford

Williams rookie Sergey Sirotkin has admitted that the team won't catch Sauber anymore in the constructors' championship, as the British team trails Sauber by fourteen points with nine races to go.

All four points scored by Williams this season have come courtesy of Lance Stroll. Sirotkin is the only driver on the grid who has yet to score any points.

Sauber, the team who has been in last place for the last two seasons, have seen a spike in form since Charles Leclerc has joined the team at the start of the season. The Monegasque rookie has scored thirteen points by himself, as he even qualified in Q3 on multiple occasions.

“I think where they [Sauber] are, they are, for sure, unreachable because they are well into the midfield,” Sirotkin admitted to PlanetF1.

“For us I think at the moment the key is to try, I wouldn’t say to score concrete results, but to find our concrete and strong recovery way and start to produce the things which are clearly correlated well to our expectations.

“That’s exactly what we want to get an understanding of the car and how it should perform and what it should do in different situations, which already will bring us, I wouldn’t say into the midfield, but so we can do maybe more things in the race and use this as a base for the steps for next year.”

Whether Williams will just leave the car for this season and fully focus on the next, isn't something the Russian worries about. He thinks that there should be a split in workforces between this season's and next season's car.

“I think there is always a balance,” he continued.

“The same as there is an independent group of people who are spending their time doing next year’s car, and this year’s car.

“For sure it should be the balance but again I’m quite sure there are better people than me managing and prioritise the situation.”