Flavio Briatore has revealed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz’s lack of long-term commitment🐻 is the reason Alpine weren’t interested 🅘in signing him for the 2025 F1 season.

After Ferrari signed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, Sainz was left without a drive for next year.

This ultimately left him with three options.

Audi🍌/Sauber had been consistently linked with Sainz amid their association withജ his father.

Williams and Alpine were other🌼 options, with Sainz opting for the former after being impressed with James Vowles’ leadership of the Grove outfit.

It was hin🌜ted that Williams’ mo🐎re favourable contract terms, which would potentially allow Sainz to leave for a top team, made them a better option than Alpine, which wanted long-term security.

In 👍Alpine’s case, Briatore confirmed they wanted to sign Sainz for⭕ four years.

He told German publication AMuS: “I spoke to Sainz. He was interesting for us, but only for four years. It makes no sense to ta🍬ke a driver like Carlos for one or two years.

“ꦺEither he believes in our programme or he doesn’t. I don’t need a driver who costs me a lot of money and is looking to go to another team when the opportunity arises.”

“A generation change” in F1

Sainz was also overlooked by Red Bull and Meꦗrcedes.

Red Bull are likely to choose 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen’s teammate for next year, while Mercedes promoted 18-year-old wonderkid Andrea Kimi Antonelli as Hamilton’s replacemen🍷t.

Briatore believes it’s “time for a gen🐻eration change.”

“It is now time for a generation change,” 𒐪Bri💖atore added.

“Sainz is a very good driver. But when he was on the market, no🅘ne of the top teams took him on.

“They prefer to ꦇfocus on young drivers. Toto Wolff on [Andrea Kimi] Antonelli, Christian Horner on [Liam] 🦄Lawson.

“Young drivers are hungrier than someone who has a w𓂃ife and two children💯 and 30 or 40 million in the bank.

“Even Enzo Ferrari said that drivers slow 🗹down w🍨hen they have children.”