Components One driver Carlos Sainz has signed with Williams Racing for the 2025 and 2026 seasons.
The 29-year-old Spaniard is in his ultimate season at Ferrari and at present ranks fifth within the F1 driver standings.
“I’m very glad to announce that I will likely be becoming a member of Williams Racing from 2025 onwards,” Sainz stated 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 best 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 a lot of my childhood heroes drove previously 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. I’m satisfied that this workforce has all the best components to make historical past once more and beginning on January 1 I’ll give my best possible to drive Williams ahead alongside each single member of the workforce.”
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 GP on June 30.
“Carlos becoming a member of Williams is a powerful assertion of intent from each events,” stated Williams workforce principal James Vowles. “Carlos has demonstrated repeatedly that he is among the most gifted drivers on the grid, with race-winning pedigree, and this underlines the upwards trajectory we’re on. Carlos brings not simply expertise and efficiency, but additionally a fierce drive to extract each millisecond out of the workforce and automotive; the match is ideal.”
Sainz replaces Logan Sargeant and can race alongside Alex Albon at Williams. Seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton is changing Sainz at Ferrari.
“In Alex and Carlos we can have one of the formidable driver line-ups on the grid and with enormous expertise to information us into the brand new laws in 2026,” Vowles stated. “Their perception on this group’s mission demonstrates the magnitude of the work happening behind the scenes. Individuals needs to be in little question about our ambition and momentum as we proceed our journey again to competitiveness — we’re right here, we’re severe and with Dorilton’s backing we’re investing in what it takes to return to the entrance of the grid.
“I additionally need to thank Logan for the whole lot he has executed for the workforce and know he’ll proceed to struggle laborious for us within the races forward.”
