Carlos Sainz clarifies if he’d still support Charles Leclerc to F1 title after Ferrari axing

Carlos Sainz is blissful to help teammate Charles Leclerc if Ferrari ask him to, despite the fact that he’s being changed on the finish of the 2024 F1 season.

Sainz will bow out of Ferrari on the finish of this yr, paving the way in which for Lewis Hamilton’s sensational arrival.

The Spaniard will look to finish his time with Ferrari on a excessive, including to his two race victories.

With Sainz on the way in which out of Ferrari, there have been recommendations that he can be unwilling to play the group sport or go in opposition to them given he’s been changed.

Nonetheless, talking after the launch of the SF-24 earlier this week, Sainz confirmed he would adhere to any group orders.

“After all. I’ve all the time been a group participant,” Sainz mentioned. “The whole lot I’ve accomplished in Formulation 1 I believe I’ve been an important group participant, I’ve all the time been exemplary in that sense as a driver for any group.

“I’ll undoubtedly assist Charles if I’ve to, the identical approach that I count on Charles to assist me if I struggle for a World Championship myself too.”

Regardless of his chapter with Ferrari coming to an finish, Sainz has said that his targets are unchanged – successful the world championship.

“I believe the quantity of strain that I’ll put in myself, within the group and my engineers and everybody concerned, I believe can be precisely the identical,” he added.

“The starvation to win races, the starvation to turn out to be champions doesn’t change simply due to what’s taking place in ’25. All of us have the identical goal. All of us have the identical ambitions this yr.

“And the truth that I’m not going to be a Scuderia Ferrari driver in 2025 doesn’t imply that we don’t need to turn out to be champions collectively this yr or win races this yr.

“So I believe it’s going to be precisely the identical. If something, I can focus much more understanding within the current after which focus extra on the race by race, ensuring I’ve the absolute best automobile and feeling beneath me and never having to focus a lot on improvement and sooner or later.”