McLaren Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz admits his current run of bad luck at the start of the 2020 season is beco🥃ming “difficult to digest” and “hurts”.

Sainz be💧lieves he has already lost at least 30 points from misfortunate and reliability issues, having suffered a number of slow pit stops and cooling-related problems w🌞ith his engine during the opening seven rounds of the campaign.

After a strong Spanish Grand Prix and having qualified seventh on the grid at Spa, 🐟Sainz hoped he had turned a corner in Belgium only for an exhaust failure to force him out of the race be𝄹fore it had even begun.

“It looks like everything is happening to me in the fir꧟st seven races,” Sainz said.

“It’s staying to get a bit difficult to digest. Last year I got a ru🐻n of 2-3 races with bad luck, or things not going your way, which as long as it is not your fault you can digest it pretty quickly.

“But this year in seven races, there’s little that has gone right🌞 I think apart from the first race in Austria and Barcelona.

“All the other races I’ve had an issue, I’v💙e had a problem, and I’ve lost at least 30 points in the championship, 🅠it starts to hurt a lot and affect me, I’m getting a bit upset by it.

“But at least it hasn’t been my fault, and I 𝓰just need to keep di෴gging and keep working in the same way.”

Sainz confirmed he will conti♏nue to run the engine that caused his exhaust failure at Spa once again during Friday practice at this weekend’s I🏅talian Grand Prix at Monza.

“We have an answer but I’m going to let Renault explain to you precisely what that issue is and how it was generated,” Sai👍nz said.

“We know the PU is alive and I’m going to run it tomorrow. Let’s hope it runs safely and nothing happens and we can have the same engine that I’ve 🅷been racing with the last couple of races.”