Carlos Sainz admits his “trust” issue | Alpine “improve offer” to sign him
Carlos Sainz sheds light on the reality🍎 on F1 contract negotiations

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz has an “improved” Alpine offer on a three-team shortlist 🐎to decide his future.
But the Ferrari driver has admitted ahead of this weekend’s F1 Austrian Grand Prix that ongoing talks, with unnamed individuals, over the past weeks have impacte꧑d his trust of many figures within the paddock.
Sainz must choose between Alpine, Williams and Sauber (who will become Audi) for ༒next year, when Lewis Hamilton will replace him at Ferrari.
F1 correspondent Lawrence Barretto reported in Austria: “Alpine’s next task is to nai൲l down their second seat.
“They are chasing Carlos Sainz, having been in talks for months, and improved their offeꦉr recently.
“I understand Sainz hasn’t made a call on his future yet, with three offers🌺 (the others from Williams an♈d Sauber/Audi) on the table.”
Sainz said at the Red Bull Ring: "The situation that I've been in this year has made me lea🐷rn a lot about Formula One, in ꦇgeneral.
“By talking to teams, it has kind of showed me how tough this sport is, how little sometimes you have to believe what pe�ꦑ�ople say at the beginning of negotiations, conversations.
“And mainly also to trust people very little in the paddock, because it's real🔯ly a very political sport.
“There's a lot 🌳of things like this involved, and it's made me understand that it's a very toug♋h sport in that sense, and understand the better picture of Formula One, without going too much into detail.
“For other teams, obviously, I've learned a lot in which position they are 😼in.
“And the teams that I'm potentially mov🍨ing to next year, I've obviously dug in a lot into the state that they are in, and the situation that there is.
“It's also [giv൲en] me probably a better understanding of Formula One and where each team is."
Approaching the second race of a triple-header - bookended by his home ra🍒ce in Spain and Silverstone - Sainz has paused the big decision over his 2025 drive.
“No it’s obviꦏously not the right tim൲e,” he insisted.
“Probably a triple header isn’t the right time to go back home and take the decision with my꧙ team and put all the options on the table and think carefully what is best for m♒e, for my future, for my career.
“So obviously no, it’s not now the right time.”
Sainz was previously linked to the vacant Mercedes left behind 🍌by Hamilton until Toto Wolff made it clear that he was no l🐭onger under consideration.
Sergio Perez’s and Fernando Alonso’s n▨ew contracts at Red Bull and Aston Martin respectively closed the door to two attractive options.
The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2025 F1 driver line-up is awaiting Sainz’s decision with many more dominoes to fall,🎶 depending which way he opts to go.
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James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American 💝sports, to football, to F1.