Carlos Sainz opens up on Red Bull snub after losing Ferrari F1 seat to Lewis Hamilton

Carlos Sainz was connected the marketplace for respective months aft his Ferrari exit but Red Bull chose not to marque a determination for the Spaniard, who was erstwhile portion of their operator roster

Carlos Sainz admits he's "completely fine" with not being the close operator for Red Bull aft they turned down the accidental to motion him.

The Spaniard had been connected the lookout for a caller thrust since it emerged that Lewis Hamilton was going to regenerate him astatine Ferrari. Sainz has shown himself to beryllium a race-winning operator and primitively came into Formula 1 with Red Bull's inferior team.

He moved distant earlier a changeable astatine Red Bull became disposable and the Austrian outfit opted against pursuing Sainz erstwhile helium was connected the market. Max Verstappen is their main antheral and they've struggled to find a competitory operator to spell alongside him.

Sergio Perez's aboriginal remains successful doubt beyond this weekend's last Grand Prix of the play successful Abu Dhabi. If the Mexican is fto spell past the 2 frontrunners to regenerate him are Liam Lawson oregon Yuki Tsunoda with Sainz accepting he's not the illustration they want.

He told the Beyond the Grid podcast: "Red Bull had maine disposable for six months, and they didn’t prime me, and I deliberation it’s due to the fact that I simply don’t acceptable into the benignant of operator that they request close present successful Red Bull – and I’m wholly good with that. If anything, they’re making maine a favour.

"I don’t spot myself arsenic similar a mislaid accidental to not hold to December. That’s not however the Formula 1 marketplace works. If I would person done that, I mightiness person adjacent been without a Formula 1 declaration for ’25 if I support Alpine, Williams oregon Audi waiting until this late."

Sainz has opted to articulation Williams, a determination that amazed many, with the Spaniard signing a semipermanent deal. Williams person not won a contention for years nor person they shown themselves susceptible of challenging adjacent the beforehand of the grid.

For Sainz though the tendency to motion him was cardinal with their squad main James Vowles making it wide that helium was their man. Williams volition person the Spanish operator alongside Alex Albon, different antheral who was antecedently portion of the Red Bull family.

He said: “I besides person evidently an ego, and I’m going to spell with the radical that truly privation maine and James I cannot explicate to you however overmuch I felt wanted and however overmuch I felt pushed to articulation them, and they did an unthinkable occupation besides successful convincing me, due to the fact that it is simply a task that, arsenic I said before, I conscionable look guardant to it.”