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Ferrari should announce on May 15 or 16: Sebastian Vettel’s successor is Carlos Sainz. Madrilene, 25, had already signed, for the years 2021 and 2022, with an option by Ferrari for 2023. For the sixth World Championship in 2019, Ferrari will be the fourth employer in Formula 1 after Toro Rosso (2015 -2017), Renault (2017/2018) and McLaren (2019/2020). Carlos Sainz is the fifth Ferrari driver in Spain, after Alfonso «Fon» de Portago (1956/1957), Marc Gené, Pedro de la Rosa (both only as test pilots) and Fernando Alonso (2010 to 2014).
Sainz has four reasons: He is still young at 25, but he also has five years of Formula 1 experience with 102 World Cup appearances. Ferrari costs only a fraction of the salary that had to be paid by Sebastian Vettel. And team boss Mattia Binotto is convinced that Sainz and Leclerc are easier to handle than Vettel and Leclerc.
Former GP rider Marc Surer praises: “Carlos Sainz has become an extremely reliable rider who always performs. That was not the case in the first part of his Formula 1 career. From the beginning it was clear to me that Sainz would hardly reject an offer from Ferrari.
With this, Ferrari twice trusts a young driver within two years. This was not the case for decades. Before and after Felipe Massa 2006 (the Brazilian was 24 at the time), Ferrari generally relied on experienced drivers in the modern era of Formula 1, never the young. As regular drivers, you always hired drivers who had at least one podium or who were already GP winners and world champions. The thought here: Only two proven GP winners allow Ferrari a word for the constructors’ cup.
As a best result, Sainz brings third place in the 2019 Brazilian GP. It is his only podium in Formula 1 so far.
Already in May 2016, it was circulating for the first time that Sainz could one day sit in a Ferrari. In May 2016, world rally champion Carlos Sainz extended the antennas to Maranello for his son. Dakar winner Sainz wanted to make sure his offspring didn’t fall between the saddle and the bench, if Toro Rosso could be replaced in late 2016 and Carlos would lose.
But Sainz stayed with Toro Rosso (now AlphaTauri), then was loaned to Renault by Red Bull in 2017, where the young Madrilene drove until the end of 2018; The band broke up into a friendship for many years when Sainz moved to McLaren, where he has been driving since 2019.
Last winter, Carlos Sainz commented on new rumors about joining Ferrari: “Sure, it’s good if you’re associated with Ferrari. I see it as a compliment.
In a live chat organized by the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit, former Ferrari test driver Pedro de la Rosa said: “Carlos showed an excellent season in 2019 and achieved a great sixth place. I see Leclerc and Carlos as a young and extremely talented duo, as a team with a great future. “
Carlos Sainz in Formula 1
2015 with Toro Rosso: World Cup 15, 18 points
2016 with Toro Rosso: World Cup 12, 46 points
2017 with Toro Rosso, then Renault: WM-9., 54 points
2018 with Renault: WM-10., 53 points
2019 with McLaren: World Cup sixth, 96 points (third in Brazil)
2020 with McLaren
2021 with Ferrari
