ANPSergio Perez and Max Verstappen
NOS Sport•yesterday, 17:10•Modified yesterday, 21:52
Components 1 driver Carlos Sainz will make the change from Ferrari to Williams subsequent 12 months. Not a lot later it was introduced that Sergio Pérez will end the 12 months as Max Verstappen’s teammate at Pink Bull Racing.
Sainz indicators a two-year contract with Williams, taking an enormous step again. Ferrari is at the moment the third crew within the Constructors’ Championship standings, Williams is ninth and penultimate. Earlier this 12 months it was introduced that Sainz must depart Ferrari to make means for seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.
ReutersCarlos Sainz
Williams might be Sainz’s fifth crew, having beforehand pushed for Toro Rosso (as Verstappen’s teammate), Renault and McLaren earlier than becoming a member of Ferrari in 2021.
Sainz has gained three Grand Prix and stood on the rostrum 23 instances in his profession and is at the moment fifth within the battle for the world title.
Sainz’s most up-to-date victory was in Australia, the third Grand Prix of the season. He gained Down Below ten days after having surgical procedure on his appendix. This 12 months he has stood on the rostrum 5 instances in whole. At Williams Racing, the Spaniard might be teammate of Alex Albon.
Pérez
Whether or not Sainz’s switch has something to do with it stays to be seen. However a couple of hours after the information broke, Pink Bull introduced, based on varied media, that Sergio Perez might be allowed to complete the season.
AFP Disappointing outcomes led to hypothesis about Perez’s future
Resulting from disappointing leads to the primary half of the season, the Mexican got here beneath heavy hearth from the crew of world champion Verstappen.
On Monday, there would have been a prime assembly at Pink Bull, with prime executives Christian Horner and Helmut Marko amongst others. Though Pérez is disappointingly seventh within the World Championship standings and has not progressed past seventh place within the final eight races, it was determined to maintain confidence within the 34-year-old driver.
“Checo stays a Pink Bull driver regardless of latest hypothesis. We look ahead to seeing him carry out on observe, as he has carried out properly beforehand after the summer season break,” Horner is quoted in a message to Pink Bull workers in varied media.
On August 25, Components 1 will emerge from its summer season break with the Dutch GP in Zandvoort.
