Carlos Sainz Jnr mentioned the information Purple Bull had dropped Liam Lawson after simply two rounds got here as no shock to him.
The previous Purple Bull junior staff member mentioned their resolution to ship Lawson again to their junior squad so early is typical of how they run their younger driver programme.
“I simply assume it’s nothing new,” he informed the official F1 channel. “It’s simply the Purple Bull and the best way issues are dealt with in Purple Bull and the best way issues go in Purple Bull.
“We’ve seen it within the final 10 years in Components 1, or since I’m in F1, that’s the best way issues are performed there. Someday you get the prospect, the subsequent day in the event you don’t do precisely the best way you’re anticipated to do you get the improve or the downgrade.”
Sainz spent nearly three seasons driving for Purple Bull’s second staff in F1 earlier than leaving the staff. Whereas Max Verstappen, his first staff mate in F1, was promoted to Purple Bull in his second season, the staff by no means did the identical for Sainz and didn’t take the prospect to rent him as a substitute for the struggling Sergio Perez final 12 months.
Nonetheless Sainz declined to say whether or not Purple Bull is dealing with a scarcity of succesful staff mates to Verstappen now as a result of it failed to provide him a chance.
“Everybody says it’s the hardest job in Components 1 being subsequent to Max in a automotive that Max is aware of so nicely,” he mentioned. “If that’s what persons are [saying], I assume it’s a great factor for me, however on the identical time I don’t care as a result of I’m within the place that I need to be proper now and in a great place additionally for my future, for myself and I can’t wait to see the place we go.”
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Purple Bull has a observe document of creating early adjustments to its driver line-up. 4 races into 2016 they demoted Daniil Kvyat, in his second 12 months on the staff, in favour of Verstappen. Three years later Purple Bull dropped Pierre Gasly after giving him simply 12 races.
Gasly acknowledged he “can clearly relate” to Lawson’s state of affairs however mentioned it’s “very troublesome to evaluate something from the skin” after Purple Bull changed him with Yuki Tsunoda.
“I feel solely Liam can know his state of affairs and know all the main points from it and [you’ve] simply obtained to respect that we’re all making an attempt our greatest with the instruments now we have,” he mentioned. “I’ve obtained no doubts each of them are going to do very well however it’s probably not for me to remark since you by no means actually know what’s happening.”
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