In a shock transfer, Carlos Sainz, a three-time Grand Prix winner with Ferrari, signed a two-year take care of UK-based Williams Racing.
System One driver Carlos Sainz has signed with Williams Racing for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
The Spaniard is in his remaining season at Ferrari and at present ranks fifth within the System One (F1) driver standings.
“I’m very blissful to announce that I can be becoming a member of Williams Racing from 2025 onwards,” Sainz stated on Monday. “It’s no secret that this 12 months’s driver market has been exceptionally advanced for numerous causes and that it has taken me a while to announce my resolution.
“Nonetheless, I’m absolutely assured that Williams is the precise place for me to proceed my F1 journey and I’m extraordinarily happy with becoming a member of such a historic and profitable workforce, the place lots of my childhood heroes drove prior to now and made their mark on our sport. The final word purpose of bringing Williams again to the place it belongs, on the entrance of the grid, is a problem that I embrace with pleasure and positivity,” he stated.
Sainz collected his third profession F1 win on the Australian Grand Prix in March. He additionally has 4 third-place finishes this season, most not too long ago on the Austrian Grand Prix on June 30.
The 29-year-old replaces Logan Sargeant and can race alongside Alex Albon at Williams. Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton is changing Sainz at Ferrari.
Sainz, who had additionally been of curiosity to Sauber/Audi and Renault-owned Alpine, stated he was satisfied Williams had “all the precise components to make historical past once more”.
