Carlos Sainz claims he’s learned to trust ‘very few people’ over POLITICAL 2025 seat tussle

Carlos Sainz is currently without a designated seat on the grid for the 2025 season.

Carlos Sainz claims he’s learned to trust ‘very few people’ over POLITICAL 2025 seat tussle

Carlos Sainz (via IMAGO)

Scuderia Ferrari driver, Carlos Sainz has opened up about his thoughts regarding current speculations and rumors over the Spaniard’s future in F1. Sainz is set to leave Ferrari at the end of the season and awaits a decision for 2025 from different teams on the grid.

Carlos Sainz joined Ferrari at the start of the 2021 campaign and has been a faithful performer since, winning three races and scoring 20 podiums in just over three years. However, the talented Spaniard was on the receiving end of shocking news from Ferrari, which agreed to sign Lewis Hamilton to the team for the coming season.

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Sainz has hence said that his experience in F1 has made him learn several important lessons with the politically laced nature of the sport being one of them. The three-time race winner has been rumored to have links with Williams Racing and Sauber but is yet to make a concrete decision.

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By talking to teams it has kind of showed me how tough this sport is and how little sometimes you have to believe what people say at the beginning of negotiations, conversations, and mainly people. Also to trust very little people in the paddock because it's really a very political sport.
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Sainz claimed the need to be very critical of statements and decisions advocated by people while emphasizing the need to trust only a select few in the paddock. The 29-year-old currently chases a second win this season in the upcoming race in Spielberg after undermining performances in Montreal and Barcelona.

Carlos Sainz backs Ferrari to perform better in Austria

Carlos Sainz has asserted Ferrari will be better during the Austrian Grand Prix amid lackluster performances in Montreal and Barcelona despite bringing in more upgrades. The Maranello-based outfit faced issues around the high-speed corners of Barcelona while succumbing to an unfortunate double DNF during the Canadian Grand Prix.

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Carlos Sainz and SF-24 (via IMAGO)
It's the high-speed nature of the track and the long, combined [corners], we seem to be always struggling when it's long corners like China, here or Suzuka. I remember Austria not being an issue for track characteristics, so I think we will be more competitive because of the corner types.
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Ferrari has been in good form this season and is currently second in the championship with impressive performances in Monaco and Australia. But the Italian outfit has not been clinical since their race-winning endeavor in Monte Carlo and has scored just 18 points in the past two races.

Carlos Sainz has claimed that Ferrari has been battling a persistent problem in gaining pace around tracks with long fast past corners in F1. However, he feels that the upcoming race around the challenging Red Bull Ring will be in the groove of the Maranello-based outfit, which has been victorious around the circuit as recently as the 2022 season.

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