Carlos Sainz Jr believes he wi📖ll thrive in his new surroundꦍings at McLaren with clarity and control over his Formula 1 future. 

Following his loan spell at Renault, the Spaniard has joined McLaren for 🔯the upcoming 2019 season, replacing two-time world champion Fernando Alonso to partner rookie Lando Norris and form a revised driver line-up at the Woking squad. 

Having had the majority of his career thus far managed by Red Bull, a switch to McLaren on a two-year deal has enabled him to become in control of his own destiny, something Sainz🐬 said he is relishing. 

“I’m💟 really grateful 𓄧for Red Bull, without Red Bull I wouldn’t be sitting here today as a McLaren driver,” Sainz explained. 

“So I really need to be grateful for every🌳thing that they’ve done for me. 

“But it is true that this is nꦚow a new chapter in my career, I am kind of managing myself in a way and I am independent. 

“This independence comes with a two year contract with McLaren so something that I really wanted, [to] find my first t꧟wo year deal with a team. If that team is McLaren eve𝕴n better!

“[I’m] looking forward to it,” he added. “I’m going💛 to be a new Carlos and I’m really looking forward to this new chapter in my life.” 

McLaren will continue its recovery bid to return to winni🌳ng ways in F1 in 2019, after fi⛄nishing sixth in the 2018 constructors’ championship in the first year of its new engine partnership with Renault. 

The team has been bolstered by the signing of former Porsche LMP1 chief Andܫreas Seidl, while former Toro Rosso technical chief James Key will also com⛄plete his anticipated mov𒁏e this season. 

Sai𝔉nz has already warned McLaren against getting “overexcited” with its aims for the upcoming campaign, adding his new team will have to work “little by little” to๊ find a way back up F1’s pecking order.