Carlos Sainz has expressed his willingness to assist his teammate Charles Leclerc upon Ferrari’s request, regardless of his impending departure from the workforce after the 2024 F1 season concludes.
The Spaniard is about to go away Ferrari by 12 months’s finish, making room for Lewis Hamilton’s extremely anticipated entry.
Sainz goals to conclude his tenure at Ferrari on a constructive observe, hoping to construct on his present tally of two race wins.
Amid speculations that Sainz may resist taking part in a supportive function and even act opposite to workforce pursuits because of his substitute, he clarified his stance. Following the disclosing of the SF-24 earlier within the week, Sainz affirmed his dedication to following any directives from the workforce.
“In fact. I’ve at all times been a workforce participant,” Sainz stated. “The whole lot I’ve performed in Components 1 I feel I’ve been an ideal workforce participant, I’ve at all times been exemplary in that sense as a driver for any workforce.
“I’ll positively assist Charles if I’ve to, the identical method that I count on Charles to assist me if I struggle for a World Championship myself too.”
Regardless of his tenure with Ferrari drawing to an in depth, the 29-year-old has declared that his ambition stays unaltered – to safe the world championship.
“I feel the quantity of strain that I’ll put in myself, within the workforce and my engineers and everybody concerned, I feel can be precisely the identical,” he added.
“The starvation to win races, the starvation to turn into 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 12 months.
“And the truth that I’m not going to be a Scuderia Ferrari driver in 2025 doesn’t imply that we don’t wish to turn into champions collectively this 12 months or win races this 12 months.
“So I feel it’s going to be precisely the identical. If something, I can focus much more realizing within the current after which focus extra on the race by race, ensuring I’ve the very best automotive and feeling beneath me and never having to focus a lot on improvement and sooner or later.”
