Carlos Sainz will mark two main objectives this season with Williams

Carlos Signs Appeared at the first official press conference for the next season Lewis Hamilton and Andrea Kimmi Antonelli. It’s not a coincidence. F1 sits with one of the protagonists of this course, the British, and at its premiere Ferrarinext to the pilot he replaced Maranello And then a young man liberates at Mercedes. The Spanish, the final winner of Formula 1 in Australia in 2024, is dressed in red and returns to Albert Park with very different expectations. He knows he won’t fight for victory, but he doesn’t like not talking about the outcomes he’s waiting to see the actual performance of the car on free training. However, two priorities have been marked in this new challenge. Glove: It was my first big purpose as a team, and the other one personally.

“What do I hope for?at least in the first race, Carlos was expected to lead the mid-zone and compete with cars that are aiming to score points with Q3 and good weapons.

“Results? I’m hoping to see what I can fight if I miss two or three races and see where the car is and fight without Q2, Q3, points, points… And I try to build things that will be a good season and achieve these goals. But before Madrid pilots confirmed that it is almost impossible for the car to score goals in terms of position in championships and points and so on.

He was then asked about the results he was satisfied with Williams on his first date. “It’s very difficult to answer this question. After a free 2, we start to understand whether you’re a fifth, seventh team or an eighth team, so we can tell you more about where we are. I don’t know… Top 10? It could be the best out of the 10, but we probably can’t even get close to it. You need to adapt your expectations. Let’s talk after Free 2. But yes, I don’t think last year’s victory is possible,” he explained.

What was undoubtedly uncovered was that, when referring to his sense of good beginnings with his new set and his new car, he ended with the best time of Bahrain’s preseason test, but this result revealed that it was not real because of the greatest potential the dominant team had been hidden.

“It was a very positive start. The positive beginning began in Abu Dhabi (the 2024 postseason) as soon as I got into my car and started working with people who were planning to work this year. I found a team full of motivation and the people and cars who wanted to go back to Williams did not disappoint me. It was a good test in Abu Dhabi, we had a good winter development and obviously we were about to start strong this year. We took a positive test, but we don’t know if we’ll be a leader’s second or half second. I want to show progress, and that’s what this year says. I want to show progress and see where it ends. ”.

Williams won eight races to score in 2024

“I’m not, but you’ll never know about this sport. It makes you happy and motivates a lot of people, and that’s what’s most important to me.

About his former partner at Ferrari

“I think Charles Leclerc did a good job when representing the Ferrari brand with colour in the last six or seven years of his career. I’m working, progressing as a pilot and as a person this year.