Mercedes, Toto Wolff closes the door on Carlos Sainz

No Mercedes for Carlos Sainz

After seeing fade the possibility of landing in Red Bull accomplice the renewal of Sergio Perez, for Carlos Sainz arrives the rejection also from Mercedes. At the end of the first day of free practice at the Montreal circuit, in fact, Toto Wolff during an intervention at the microphones of "Sky Sport Deutschland", spoke clearly about the future teammate of George Russell from 2025.

"We just want to focus on Kimi and the young drivers. This è our future and this è what we have also told Carlos Sainz" began the Mercedes team principal.

"Both Mick and Kimi, in the tests at Silverstone, completed the program we gave them and the performance was exactly what we expected. Some statements here that Antonelli was clearly superior to Schumacher and Russell are absolutely meaningless. All three drove with different programs" added the Austrian manager.

"All three were very fast. George è was by far the best, but we just focused on continuing our development work. It was not about setting better times, but just gathering the data we needed to improve the car for the remainder of the season" concluded Toto Wolff.

On the future he è also expressed himself clearly Carlos Sainz to the microphones of "Marca": What I can say è that I have not closed anything. All the options I have on the table are good, with everyone I have talked to I have felt appreciated, so I am positive about the future. As soon as I haveò something to announce you will be the first to know and I will talk about it" openly".