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Friday is a special day for the 26-year-old Spaniard, a new Ferrari driver who will team up with Leclerc next season. Sainz arrived at Red Headquarters, met his colleague Charles as well as engineers and mechanics before greeting Mattia Binotto
Surely he will remember Friday for a long time, the first for him in the Ferrari. The Maranello era of Carlos Sainz, 26-year-old Spanish driver who from next season (his seventh in Formula 1) will team up with Charles Leclerc at Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow. They will be the youngest prancing horse duo from 1968 to the present. Born in 1994, son of art and driving the McLaren in the last World Championship, Sainz arrived at the headquarters to make a first seat adjustment for the 2021 season. Carlos then met with the engineers and some of the mechanics of the one who will work on her adventure with the team. At the end of the morning he was joined Leclerc, turn in Maranello for some end-of-season encounters. The 2021 drivers also took part to greet the virtual lunch organized by the Team Principal and Managing Director of the Scuderia, Mattia Binotto, with Italian and foreign journalists.
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At the end of March he will compete in his first GP with the SF21 (the name of the car next season), just enough to make Carlos the third Spanish driver to compete with the team after Fernando Alonso (96 GP with the team between 2010 and 2014) e Alfonso of Portago, a nobleman who competed in 5 Formula 1 GPs with the Prancing Horse between 1956 and 1957. The Maranello team also had two Spanish test drivers: Pedro de la Rosa me Marc Gene who remains linked to the brand as an ambassador and tutor to the drivers of the exclusive programs XX and F1 Clienti.
