Damon Hill hands Carlos Sainz huge backing above Charles Leclerc for Mercedes
“Charles Leclerc, maybe, relies on his speed𒊎 quite a lot," Naomi Schiff𝄹 added
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz is a better fit for Mercedes’ 2025 vacancy than 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Charles Leclerc, believes Damon Hill.
Sainz finished the season-opening F1 Bahrain Grand Prix on the podium, behind the Red Bullও duo, with Ferrari teammate and pole-sitter Leclerc in P4.
Sainz, who was also the only non-Red Bull driver to win an F1 grand prix last season, will be out of a seat in 2025 when Lew🦄is Hamilton replaces him at Ferrari.
Naomi Schiff said about Sainz on Sky Sports: “We saw today, again, that sometimes he asks his engineers questions and they 𝔉don’t quite have the answers.
“He almo🌌st alerts them to the information that he would like.
“That’s a really good sign. He’s thinking ahead.
At some point, he came on the radio and said ‘you are not thinking about wh🍎at I’m thinking about’.
“He is planning, constantly thinking.
“He’s not ♋just a good driver. He’s a good racer and a thinking driver. He has his head wrapped around everything.”
Ex-F1 cham🎐pion Hill added: “If you remembeꩲr Carlos, famously at Silverstone, countered the strategy that Ferrari suggested he did.
“He knows what he’s doing.
“He’d do very well in a team tಞhat is us༒ed to running at the front.
“When you come from Ferrarওi, you know how a big team wor෴ks.
“You can deal with all that stuff.
“It’s a big feather in your cap. Apart from🥂 the fact that 🎶he is a feisty driver.”
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur famously does not have❀ a No1 and No2 driver policy, instead choosing to treat them equally.
But Ferrari opted to extend Leclerc’s contract, then sig🎃n Hamilton, allowing Sainz to walk free.
Hill compared Ferrari’s duo: “It seem๊s lik👍e Charles has awful bad luck and problems in races.
“It could be a case of: does he manage it as well as Carlos? Or is Carlos a thinking driver who maybe doesn’t have the ultimate pace, but in a race it’s ಌnot about ultimate pace, it’s about management.”
Schiff added: “There have been moments where things have happened on Charles’ side of the garage that weren’t necessarily happening on Carlos’ side, on race ওday.
“That’s because it seemed like 🌱Carlos was ahead on a few things.
“Charles, maybe, relꦡies on his speed quite a lot.”
Hill replied: “You’d never say that Charles ꦺhas got the upper hand over Carlos.
“Carlos i⭕s able to beat him on many occasions, and has done over a season.
“I think that is a point to be made.
“Have we seen the best of Charles? Has he matured to the point where you can look at him and 𝓰say he c🌱ould take a title fight right the way through, without dropping the ball?”
The question was posed: would Mercedes’ Toto Wolf✅f prefer to welcome Leclerc or Saiꦚnz in 2025 as a replacement for Hamilton?
Hill answered: “If I was Toto, I think thꦫat I’d pick Carlos.
“Carlos is someone who could work well with the team. The en💃gineers would understand. And he gets the engineering.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for𒁏 a decade covering everything f💦rom American sports, to football, to F1.
