Carlos Sainz poses no threat to Checo Perez at Red Bull

hourA few weeks ago The renewal of Carlos Sainz’s contract with Ferrari has reached a dead end. and not because of differences between the two sides, but because negotiations were carried out in Maranello in another way, seven-time Formula 1 champion such as Lewis Hamilton. Enabling one of great champions in historywith motives pointing to marketing, a priori almost as important as purely sporting ones.

Sainz will complete his final season with Ferrari in 2024, but his future as a regular driver on the grid is secure. how MARCA can support. Drive several very important proposals from 2025, Being the great driver he is today, he is the only one capable of beating Red Bull in 2023, which is what he achieved in Singapore. There the window opened for Hamilton, Russell, Norris, Piastri and Leclerc himself, recently rejuvenated as if he had been a multiple World Championship winner, with a total of five victories since 2018. the winner was the Spaniard, with a superb performance in which the Italian press compared him to Gilles Villeneuve.

Sauber and Audi

The first and most logical thing is to come to the current Stake F1 or the old Sauber that Bottas and Zhou currently drive. It is expected to land at Hinwil before a name and team change in 2026, where the Swiss entity will become Audi F1. This is not a cosmetic acquisition, as the four-ringed brand, recently crowned a hybrid car at Dakar, lands with its engine in Formula 1, in the year of the regulation change, with a power unit in which half of its supply, about 450 horsepower, will be from an electric motor, and the rest, up to 900 hp, from a gasoline thermal engine similar to the current one, 1.6, V6.

WITH Andreas Seidl at the helm his former director at McLaren (2019-20) and with the arrival of a winning brand (World Rally Championship, 24 Hours of Le Mans and Dakar)the Audi project will rely on Sainz as its first driver, an award he has hard-earned since his Toro Rosso debut in 2015. beat Verstappen (in qualification) in mechanical inequality, the one who did not give the opportunity Lando Norris at McLaren and the one that has Leclerc’s life has become bitter from 2021 at Ferrari, despite fulfilling all the team orders, which the Monegasque on a whim missed without redirecting. Who tried it like Mattia Binottowas removed from the project at the end of 2022 to accommodate Fred Wasser.

Level Sainz, as one of the four best current drivers, along with Verstappen, Alonso and Hamilton, This is the one that is managed by the headquarters of all the Formula 1 teams, and which provides it with proposals from other places that are not the future Audi.

Mercedes

Toto Wolf He was already in talks with Carlos in 2020, before Russell arrived in 2022, about a possible replacement for Bottas. Ferrari came onto the scene during the pandemic year to find a guy capable of helping the Italian marque return to winning ways, both on and off the track. WITH Hamilton away from Brackley, Sainz is a very attractive option to become Russell’s team-mate. on the way back to the start of the grid.

Red Bull, no.

But there are more interested parties as there will likely be a vacancy at Red Bull in 2025 if Checo does not renew his contract. one of the McLaren drivers could land next to Verstappen. The British press have linked Sainz with the Austrian team, but MARCA can now confirm that This is not one of the options open.

Carlos could have continued with the squad and become Max’s partner today, but he decided to move first to Renault (on loan) and then to McLaren, escaping a role bordering on that of a Dutchman’s tourist. Hellmut Marco Lately he has been reminded of his worth, but Sainz has already experienced first-hand a plan in which he was completely overshadowed. In this sense, Ferrari was much more impartial in terms of means and considerations.

Sainz’s next Formula 1 team will soon be known, but spending a year without racing is not in his plans in any case.