Carlos Sainz Jnr doesn’t consider he gained’t struggle for victories once more after leaving Ferrari for Williams on the finish of the yr.
Ferrari introduced firstly of the yr that Sainz will likely be changed by Lewis Hamilton for 2025. Williams later named him as Alexander Albon’s subsequent staff mate.
Though Williams haven’t been in competition for race victories for a number of seasons, Sainz mentioned he’s excited in regards to the prospect of becoming a member of the Grove-based staff.
“I’m actually wanting ahead to subsequent yr and the problem with Williams,” he mentioned. “Initially, it’s additionally good to see how a lot they’ve improved not too long ago and the way that automotive now can get to the factors very often in the previous few races. So there’s encouragement, and searching ahead to that, clearly.”
Sainz took a memorable victory earlier within the season within the Australian Grand Prix, his third profession win in Formulation 1 over his 4 seasons with Ferrari. Requested if he goals to attempt to safe one other win earlier than he leaves Maranello, Sainz mentioned that “nothing would make me happier than reaching one thing like that earlier than the tip of the yr.”
“I’m going to offer it my best possible,” he continued. “If it comes, nice, and I’ll be for certain celebrating. And if it doesn’t, I don’t consider will probably be my final likelihood of combating for wins or podiums in Formulation 1.
“I’ll stay working laborious to attempt to get myself ready, even when it’s with Williams or sooner or later forward, to place myself ready to win one other race as a result of that’s what I’m hungry for and that’s what I consider I can do and that’s what I’ve confirmed that I can do in Ferrari. It doesn’t finish there.”
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Williams has gained momentum in latest races, having scored 13 factors during the last 4 rounds with the addition of rookie Franco Colapinto to the staff’s line-up changing Logan Sargeant. Sainz says he has been inspired by discussions he’s had with Williams staff principal James Vowles about his plans for the longer term.
“We did discuss so much about this yr, how a lot they have been going to enhance and which place they have been going to be on for 2025,” Sainz mentioned. “And, to date, he’s been a person of his phrase and his expectations. With upgrades in Formulation 1, you by no means know, however you noticed it clearly this yr that bringing three tenths to the automotive doesn’t at all times imply three tenths on paper.
“He’s been a person of his phrase on this sense, and the staff appears to be taking their steps in the correct path. On the identical time, this information that I used to be receiving from him and these guarantees – as a result of they weren’t guarantees, they have been expectations of the automotive getting faster by means of the season and into subsequent yr – didn’t have an effect on that a lot my determination. As I mentioned, my determination was much more primarily based on the folks and the sensation that I used to be getting from speaking to the administration, speaking to the house owners and the sensation that I used to be getting from the entire organisation and never a lot in regards to the short-term efficiency positive factors that they have been getting.
“Undoubtedly what satisfied me greater than the downforce they have been going so as to add or the place the staff was going to be in six months, one yr’s time, was the folks and the professionalism and the imaginative and prescient of the venture that that they had. This was the primary differentiator to me.”
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