Forward of his debut with the Grove-based outfit, Williams have revealed a video of Carlos Sainz’ debut drive within the British staff’s 2024 F1 automobile, the FW46 on the Yas Marina Circuit.
After Ferrari introduced final February that seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton would exchange Carlos Sainz from 2025, the Spaniard had been linked with a number of outfits.
Following month-long paddock chatter, the talks led to August when Williams confirmed that they secured the companies of the three-time F1 race winner who will be part of the Grove-based outfit on a two-year settlement with choices to increase.
With Ferrari granting Sainz an early launch final December, the Spaniard managed to have a primary style of the FW46 as he accomplished a filming day with Williams on the Yas Marina Circuit yesterday earlier than participating within the Pirelli post-season tyre take a look at the day after.
Following the the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Sainz admitted that whereas he was feeling emotional on his final laps with Ferrari, he already switched his focus to Williams, attempting to determine why Ferrari’s SF24 felt fast in sure corners to hold his information over to the Grove-based squad.
“Being very sincere with you, I do not suppose so. I feel, I am not going to lie, my final laps, as a lot as I used to be pushing like hell for this staff and attempting to, I used to be already beginning to really feel issues within the automobile and attempting to say, keep in mind how this feels, as a result of I want to recollect why is that this automobile fast on this nook and why does it really feel good?
“I am extraordinarily motivated for the problem that I’ve forward of me,” concluded the four-time F1 race winner.
