Carlos Sainz: “It would hurt” if Ferrari fight for 2025 title, “I had influence”

"I obviously had🔯 a bit of an influence in building this 🦩team"

Carlos Sainz
Carlos Sainz

Carlos Sainz confessed he would be disappointed if Ferrari w🎃in a drivers’ title after he leaves.

Lewis Hamilton’s arrival at Ferra♋ri in 2025 means Sainz was forced out, and he has since si🐎gned with Williams.

It also means Hamilton could win an all-time record eighth F1 championship with Ferrari, who are aiming to end their winless streak which dates back to 🧸Kimi Raikkonen in 2007.

Sainz, who has laid the groundwork for Ferrari to return to grand ܫprix-winning ways, doesn’t want t🐻o miss out.

“I am a driver who loves getting involved in the development stꦺuff, living at Maranello to improve the team,” he told Sky Sports.

“When I arrived🌜 at Ferrari in 2021 my target was to win a championship. We might do it this yea♔r in the constructors'.

“It would hurt more if, next year, they are fightiওng for the drivers’ ti𒐪tle.

“I will feel like I obviously had a bit of an influꦍence in building this team to be a championship-fighting team, [then] to not be here next year.

“But you turn the pa🍎ge. I can’t wait to be at Williams.

“It’s just the way things have panned out.”

Will Sainz return to Ferrari?

Raikkonen famously retur𝓀ned to Ferrari, and Sain🍷z was questioned about whether he would come back.

His replacement, Hamilton🐬, is already 39 years old.

Sainz sꦺaid: “I am a big believer that you can never say ne🐻ver.

“In everything I have been through, I try to leave on🎃 good terms.

“I try to put myself in good positions. I am a guy who has good relationships with people,𝄹 I am relaxed ༺in that sense.

“I will leave that door open.

“For🥂 the next few years Ferrari is not an option for me, because I am committed to Williams.

“But in four, six, eight, 10 years time?”

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