{"id":37904,"date":"2025-09-22T10:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sainz-podium-in-baku-feeling-superior-to-first-f1-success\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:00:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T14:00:57","slug":"sainz-podium-in-baku-feeling-superior-to-first-f1-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/sainz-podium-in-baku-feeling-superior-to-first-f1-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Sainz: Podium in Baku, Feeling Superior to First F1 Success"},"content":{"rendered":"Williams driver Carlos Sainz expressed that his third place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was even more satisfying than his first podium in Formula 1.\n\nSainz, 31 years old, has achieved 28 podium finishes in 11 seasons in F1, including four victories as a Ferrari driver. His first podium was at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix, while competing for McLaren.\n\nHe joined Williams at the beginning of this season after being replaced at Ferrari by Lewis Hamilton, and described his first podium with his new team as a moment full of emotion.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Honestly, I can&#8217;t describe how happy I am, how good this feels. This is even better than my first podium.<\/p><cite>Carlos Sainz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nSainz highlighted the team&#8217;s hard work throughout the year and the ability to achieve great things when everything aligns.\n\nSainz started from second on the grid, taking advantage of a chaotic qualifying session on the Baku street circuit on Saturday. He maintained a solid performance throughout the 53 laps of the race, losing only one position to George Russell&#8217;s Mercedes, who used a different strategy.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0921%2Fr1548923_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Carlos Sainz en el podio\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Carlos Sainz logr\u00f3 su primer podio con Williams. El piloto espa\u00f1ol cuenta con cuatro victorias, 28 podios y seis pole positions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nSainz expressed his pride in the Williams team and the progress made compared to the previous year.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We are on the rise; we are going in the right direction. Unfortunately, we have had a lot of bad luck, many incidents, but now I understand why it all happened, because the first podium had to come like this. It&#8217;s just life, you know?<\/p><cite>Carlos Sainz<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nAfter Williams focused its efforts on 2026 at the beginning of the season, Sainz anticipates that the podium in Baku could be the highlight of his debut year with the team.\n\nThe Spanish driver believes that Las Vegas could be another opportunity to get a good result, although he acknowledges the difficulty of the situation.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Williams driver Carlos Sainz expressed that his third place in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was even more satisfying than his first podium in Formula 1. Sainz, 31 years old, has achieved 28 podium finishes in 11 seasons in F1, including four victories as a Ferrari driver. His first podium was at the 2019 Brazilian Grand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8932,3025,4160,1983],"class_list":{"0":"post-37904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-f1","7":"tag-azerbaijan","8":"tag-carlos-sainz","9":"tag-podium","10":"tag-williams"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}