Williams have introduced Carlos Sainz Jnr will be a part of the staff from subsequent season on a multi-year contract.
The three-times grand prix winner, who has raced for Ferrari, McLaren, Renault and the staff now referred to as RB, will race alongside Alexander Albon subsequent season and into the brand new technical laws period in 2026 and “past”.
The announcement ends months of hypothesis about Sainz’s future after his present staff, Ferrari, introduced that that they had signed Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton to affix them for 2025, leaving Sainz with out a seat. Sainz had admitted he had been taking his time to resolve which staff to affix for 2025, with stories suggesting that Sauber – who will turn into Audi in 2026 – and Alpine had additionally pursued his signature.
The affirmation of Williams’ driver line up for 2025 signifies that Logan Sargeant will now not race for the Grove staff past this season. Nevertheless Williams have indicated that Sargeant will proceed to race for them till the top of the present championship.
Sainz mentioned that he was “very comfortable” to be becoming a member of Williams from the beginning of subsequent season.
“It’s no secret that this 12 months’s driver market has been exceptionally advanced for varied causes and that it has taken me a while to announce my determination,” Sainz mentioned. “Nevertheless, I’m absolutely assured that Williams is the proper place for me to proceed my F1 journey and I’m extraordinarily pleased with becoming a member of such a historic and profitable staff, the place lots of my childhood heroes drove prior to now and made their mark on our sport.
“The final word aim of bringing Williams again to the place it belongs, on the entrance of the grid, is a problem that I embrace with pleasure and positivity. I’m satisfied that this staff has all the proper elements to make historical past once more and beginning on January 1st I’ll give my very best to drive Williams ahead alongside each single member of the staff.”
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Williams staff principal James Vowles says that his staff could have “probably the most formidable driver line-ups on the grid” heading into 2025 and hailed the expertise Albon and Sainz will deliver into the foremost technical laws adjustments in 18 months’ time.
“Carlos becoming a member of Williams is a powerful assertion of intent from each events,” Vowles mentioned. “Carlos has demonstrated again and again that he is likely one of the most proficient drivers on the grid, with race-winning pedigree, and this underlines the upwards trajectory we’re on. Carlos brings not simply expertise and efficiency, but in addition a fierce drive to extract each millisecond out of the staff and automobile. The match is ideal.
“I additionally need to thank Logan for all the things he has performed for the staff and know he’ll proceed to struggle exhausting for us within the races forward.”
Williams presently lie ninth within the constructors’ championship on 4 factors, seven behind Alpine.
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