Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix winner Carlos Sainz reckons handing Lando Norris 'a cheeky DRS boost' to defend victory was risky, but followed recent efforts to trust his instincts.
hacked away at the leaders' advantage to bring themselves into winning contention, Sainz asked to be kept abreast of the gap to Norris so that he could reduce his gap out in front to keep his former team-mate in DRS range.
"The strategy I had to give Lando a bit of a cheeky DRS boost, that helped us to keep them behind," Sainz explained."This is a sort of strategy that you always keep in the back of your head on tracks like Singapore, that might come useful at some point. "It's all about having that commitment to do it and to put yourself under that extra risk. But I felt like that was my only real chance of winning the race, and I wanted to win.
"But it worked, sometimes you need to trust your instinct, trust your feeling. I've been trusting that these last two weekends and it's working well."
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