Williams team boss James Vowles says he rates new signing Carlos Sainz as “one of the top four drivers - if not at times the number two driver on the grid”.
Williams team boss James Vowles says he rates new signing Carlos Sainz as "one of the top four drivers - if not at times the number two driver on the grid".And Vowles said he was "surprised" that neither Mercedes nor Red Bull wanted Sainz next season.
"He will do everything in his power to transform himself and the team around him. And that’s powerful. That’s worth more than what he can drive the car at.Sainz has won three grands prix for Ferrari and finished fifth in the drivers' championship three times. Red Bull preferred to extend Sergio Perez’s contract as team-mate to Max Verstappen into 2025 and 2026, rather than take Sainz.
Vowles, in his first comments to the media since Sainz's signing, said: "Red Bull have a constructors' championship at risk - I would have Carlos alongside Max . Vowles moved to Williams at the start of last year after being part of the Mercedes team that won eight consecutive constructors' titles from 2014 to 2021 and seven drivers' championships from 2014 to 2020.
Vowles has been trying to modernise the team and this has put unexpected strains on them. He said his attempts to update the team's construction processes had led to the car still being overweight.
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