To the Tifosi screaming his name underneath the Monza podium, he was a god. To the muggers he chased down on the streets of Milan later that night, he was justice incarnate. To the members of the Formula 1 press corps listening to his reflections on the 2023 Italian Grand Prix, he was the same charming, erudite Carlos Sainz.
Was this his best F1 race weekend performance, this writer asked him? You know how his childhood hero-turned-racing rival Fernando Alonso would have answered… Sainz’s reply, wonderfully predictably, was as
