With the Formula 1 world in Barcelona for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, the dialog within the paddock is centered totally on one driver: Carlos Sainz Jr. With almost half the seats on the 2025 grid nonetheless open, Sainz’s choice concerning his future seems to be the domino following which the remainder of the lineup will fall into place.
And now Sainz admits that such a call will come “quickly.”
Speaking on the FIA Press Conference Thursday, Sainz was requested about his future, and whether or not he had reached a call concerning his trip for 2025. The Spanish driver admitted that such a call was coming “quickly,” as a result of the questions on his future had been “house out of [his] head.”
“The newest is {that a} choice will likely be taken very quickly,” answered Sainz on Thursday. “I don’t need to wait any longer. I feel it’s getting to some extent the place it’s clearly taking house out of my head for fairly a couple of weeks now and months and I feel it’s clearly time to decide. The choice will likely be taken quickly. And yeah, so hopefully quickly we could have issues to speak about.”
However, Sainz conceded that he nonetheless has not made up his thoughts.
“I’m nonetheless undecided a technique or one other. It’s nonetheless one thing that I’m discussing with my staff and brainstorming and clearly I would like a few days again at house and earlier than the Spanish Grand Prix,” continued Sainz. “I’ve been at house, however you don’t have you ever head sooner or later, you have got your head within the Spanish Grand Prix. It’s been a really hectic couple of weeks after Canada for me. So I haven’t had time to essentially sit down and take a call. And that is what I’ll goal within the subsequent few weeks.”
It will not be solely the F1 media awaiting a call from Sainz, however different drivers. Kevin Magnussen, whose personal F1 future stays unsure as his contract with Haas expires on the finish of the 2024 season, pointed to Sainz because the “cork within the bottle” in terms of the 2025 driver lineup.
“He is,” stated Magnussen, pointing to Sainz throughout Thursday’s FIA Press Conference. “Carlos is the cork within the bottle. I feel plenty of guys are ready for him to make a transfer after which finally all the opposite items of the puzzle will fall. That’s the reality of that.”
So if you’re rising a little bit impatient concerning Sainz’s choice, you aren’t alone.
Other F1 drivers are in the identical boat.
