From a “wasted” year with Stake to “a year” with Mercedes, Carlos Sainz does not have an easy decision to make for 2025, except not to sit out the season.
Dropped by Ferrari even before the first race of the 2024 F1
season, Sainz is using the season as an audition for a 2025 job.
‘Does Carlos want to be thrown around team to team?’
And it’s a case of so far, so great for the Spaniard.
On the podium in Bahrain, he sat out the Saudi Arabian GP
having undergone an appendectomy on qualifying day, and came back from that to
win the Australian Grand Prix just 16 days later.
And yet it is Sainz who is, in his own words, “jobless” for
next season after Ferrari signed Lewis Hamilton in his stead.
The Spaniard has been linked to Audi, which is Stake/Sauber
team through to the end of 2025, as well as Mercedes and Red Bull.
