Sainz looking for ‘best chance to be world champion’ as he reflects on options for F1 future

Sainz looking for ‘best chance to be world champion’ as he reflects on options for F1 future

Carlos Sainz is planning to take his time in deciding his next move for his F1 future amid his impending departure from Ferrari at the end of 2024, with the Spaniard keen to select the option that will provide him with the best chance of becoming a world champion.

It was confirmed in early February that Lewis Hamilton will join the Scuderia in 2025, with the seven-time world champion set to partner Charles Leclerc. This leaves Sainz without a seat beyond the current campaign, which will mark his fourth and final year with the Italian outfit.

 

With Sainz getting behind the wheel of Ferrari’s new challenger, the SF-24, during pre-season testing in Bahrain, the 29-year-old was quizzed on how it felt to enter into the year with an uncertain future.

“If there’s one thing that I’ve had over the last few years it’s stability,” Sainz responded. “It will be my fourth year in this team and I feel prepared and ready to take my fourth year as a good challenge here in Ferrari.

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Sainz to ‘take time’ when deciding next move

“Obviously next year the team will be different and I will be moving somewhere else, but I still have no idea where. I’m going to take my time to take the decision, the right decision for me, for my career, for the next three, four years that I might be in the next place that I go to.

“In order for that, I need time to see the whole situation, talk to all the teams and see who’s offering the best chance for me to be world champion in the future.”

In terms of the on-track action, Sainz topped the timesheets during the second day of testing at the Bahrain International Circuit, having previously ended the opening day of running in third place.

 

Sainz has been testing the SF-24 ahead of his final season with Ferrari

The Spanish driver was left with a good first impression of the car, having concluded following his initial running: “I feel like [on the first day] we had an optimal day out on track. We ran a completely new car that seemed to be in a good window straight out of the box.

“We scanned the whole set-up, the whole up and down with the car, and it seemed to respond and react well. With the performance, I obviously have no idea, I just can tell that the Red Bull looks very quick, but apart from that, nothing else.”

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Ferrari, along with the rest of the field, will soon find out more about where they stand when the 2024 season gets underway in Bahrain from February 29-March 2.

 

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Not again 😭 in golf community as famous golf players were caught and being sentence to…. recent years, the global pandemic has changed a lot of things, and has me reflecting,” she said. “It is time to slow down a little, focus more on my personal growth, and spend some time with my family.” Feng told AFP in Tokyo it had been an honour to represent her country, for potentially the last time. “We’re representing our own countries and we’re not playing for prize money, we’re playing for honour,” she said at Kasumigaseki Country Club, where she could not repeat her medal heroics of five years earlier, finishing eighth. “Out of all my achievements, I would say a medal at the Olympics is very special,” said Feng, whose only major win came at the 2012 US PGA Championship. “Even though I’ve been a major winner, think about it, we have five majors every year, in four years we have 20 chances to win a major. ‘ “So I would say it’s harder, much harder, to get a medal at the Olympics. It was the most memorable moment of my career.” Brought up in China’s southern Guangdong province, neighbouring Hong Kong, an 18-year-old Feng became the first Chinese player to earn an LPGA tour card in 2007. The easy-going Feng went on to be the first Chinese player, man or woman, to win a major and lifted 10 LPGA titles during her 14 active years on the tour. In 2017, Feng became the only Chinese golfer to date to reach the world No 1 ranking. During a supremely consistent career, Feng registered 18 top-10 finishes in majors, two of them in 2021 even as she was winding down her playing commitments.

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