Carlos Sainz, Audi further away? Possible turnaround on the way

Ahead of next season, è a possible breakthrough is coming.

Carlos Sainz and Ferrari will see their paths part at the end of the season, as the Spaniard è under contract with the Maranello team only until 2024 and the Cavallino has already made official the arrival of Lewis Hamilton alongside Charles Leclerc for the next championship. This is precisely why the winner of the Australian Grand Prix continues to be in the hunt to stay on the grid in 2025, with an overtaking move reportedly materializing in the last few hours.

Indeed, an Audi hire for Sainz has long been on the horizon, given also his father’s excellent relationship with the four-ring manufacturer. Yet the outgoing Spaniard from Ferrari seems less and less convinced to say sì to today's Sauber, in great difficulty during this 2024. And it is precisely in this sense that the overtaking of Williams would be ready to materialize.

The British press è agrees in calling the rumor, first spun by experienced journalist Joe Saward, well-founded. What is claimed across the Channel is that Williams would be tempting Sainz thanks to an ideal contract in view of the novelties that will characterize the Formula 1 of the future: a two-year.

By signing for 2025 and 2026, in fact, Sainz would have the certainty of staying on the grid in the coming seasons, while at the same time getting the picture on the new forces on the track after the rule changes and being able to afford a more lucid choice for 2027. A scenario so well defined that on British soil it is thought that the sì of the driver now at Ferrari could come as early as June 21-23, the weekend of the Spanish Grand Prix.