Carlos Sainz proved Williams worth in F1

As soon as Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Available for 2025 season, Williams The team’s principal James Walls wanted him in Williams. This was not about the reputation of attracting a four -time race winner, but about receiving a driver who introduced a treasure of strategic and technical expertise.

This year’s race in Saudi Arabia explained it. When his team’s companions Alex albon Was Isac Hadzar The second stent was asked to return to his heels, Sainz was asked to return and to ensure that Albon was within the DRS range, to ensure that he has equipment to bat Racing bulls Driver. This duly paid, as Williams scored six points to finish fifth in the standing of the constructors.

Who is better to do that work than Sainz? Eventually, he converted DRS Trick into a winning strategy a year and a half ago.

There were shades of 2023 Grand Prix of Singapore, which were in the desire of Sainz along with Albon. Then Sainz gave Lando Noris A toe with straps to ensure George Russell In that season, the couple were not gauged in the dying lap to win the only non-red bull.

This time the stake was slightly lower: making sure that Williams finished eighth and ninth in the race. But this Grove was important for the team.

Given the claim of Walls that Williams are not spending too much on their 2025 car on the way to their banned resources, making a healthy point will soon play an important role in its final championship – especially if other teams developed more in the year to move forward in the fifth overall year.

The demands of Sainz Williams seem to have their heads. Pay attention to travel Lewis HamiltonAt replacement of Sainz FerrariThose who have seen amazing differences in the operation of a car with a Ferrari Paurtrain; Excessive use of engine braking in corners still needs to fully understand.

This has been a reverse case for Sainz. He does not run with one Mercedes Before Powertrain, and therefore need to rely on braking, feel a little more on the corner entry.

In fact, Sainz was very much on the chip in Bahrain, as he was in the first three races. He excluded Albon and placed the car eighth on the grid there, but he admitted that he was pulled into the battle that they might have not gone – and the fight with the goldsmith finally ended his race after contact, leading to a gap in his sidepod.

Thus, Spaniard took a more circulated approach to proceeding in Jeddah. He was two better in qualifying to secure the sixth on the grid, but did not attend the quarrel with Hamilton and Noris on the grid; He knew that it was more to lose by trying to stick to the sixth or seventh.

Although the team knew that it could bank to work on DRS Tow at the closing stages of the race, Madrid -born racer admitted that he was a bit mitting to do so.

“The team asked me to give the DRS to Alex,” Sainz recalled to ensure that the Hadzar does not have a chance to pass. ” “This is a difficult because you always feel that it exposes you, especially on a high speed track where DRS has a huge impact. You always get a little nervous about it because you know from there, if you make a mistake or a wall or whoever kills, you cannot put one leg wrong.

“But finally it worked, and I could show my speed in the last lap. I had a lot of speed, which is a really good sign.

“This is not when it comes as your thought, because you are 100% sure. When it comes from the team, you always struggle a little more to commit to it because it does not naturally come to you. But I think we have made the right call at the end.”

Over the years, Williams has rarely done both car and driver to flex their chops and play games to play the game to score both drivers. However last year there were moments where both Albon and Colapinto were in the top 10. And there were also Madacap Hungarian Grand Prix of 2021, when Russell asked the team to give priority Nicholas Latifi To ensure that the team made its largest payment in about four years.

Sainz is now almost completely integrated into the team, and with a real midfield car, the future of Williams looks very bright. The walls reforms behind the curtain may take longer to feel perfectly, but the lowest hanging branches are now giving fruit.

The race like Jeddah exhibits why Williams and Walls pin after Sainz for so long. To give his man found, and now to speed him, it must start more regular payment if FW47 remains more competitive than 2025.