Carlos Sainz Jr. He has undoubtedly become one of the protagonists of the weekend. First for the pole that he managed to snatch from his greatest rival, Max Verstappen, and then for his third place in Monza that tasted like a first, also being named the best driver of the race.
However, not everything was going to go smoothly for the Madrid Ferrari driver, because on Sunday afternoon, he suffered an assault at the doors of the Milan hotel where he was staying, the Armani Hotel, in the heart of the capital. There he was surprised along with his manager and cousin, Carlos Oñoro ‘Caco’, when they took away his watch, a Richard Mille Alexander Zverev model that has a price of 250,000 euros.
Three people were arrested
A robbery that, luckily, did not end up being carried out, because Sainz ended up chasing one of the thieves, who was caught, and the rest were later arrested.as the Milan State Police itself announced through a statement: “The Police arrested three Moroccan citizens aged 18, 19 and 20 for conspiracy to rob Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz”.
“The Formula 1 driver who was in the manager’s car tried to block the escape of the three and then left the car and, with the help of passers-by, he managed to stop a thief in via Pietro Verri. The second was stopped in via della Spiga by the person in charge of the Ferrari drivery the third was stopped not far away by another member of staff with the help of passers-by”, they add.
Other previous robberies
And it is not an isolated event, since they have already suffered assaults before Sebastian Vettel and his teammate, Charles Leclerc. The first had his backpack stolen from inside his car in Barcelona last year, the latter chasing the thieves on an electric scooter thanks to the real-time location of his AirPods. Meanwhile, the second also had his watch removed from his wrist, taking advantage of the fact that he was taking a ‘selfie’ in Viareggio, which ended with a pursuit of the Monegasque in his Ferrari.
