Red Bull's Helmut Marko wades in on Carlos Sainz, Ferrari F1 rumours: "That makes no sense"

Reports in Spanish media have claimed that Sainz’s future at Ferrari is 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:under serious threat with both his team and teammate, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, unhappy.
El Nacional reported that Ferrari are “tired 🦄of Sainz’s excuses” about his performances, while they also claimed Lecler꧅c is “angry” at the Spaniard because he didn’t help him at the Australian Grand Prix.
But Marko, who knows Sainz well from his time within Red B✱ull’s driver stable, does not buy the r🅷umours.
“Today, anyone can more or less post something on the internet. Reports can no l🍬onger be controlled,” the 79-year-old Austrian told.
“Why should Ferrari part with Carlos? That doesn🏅’t make any sense. Carlos is 🌺doing a good job. Ferrari has other problems than thinking about Sainz.”
Sainz recently168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: denied speculation lin🌺king him with a mov🥂e to Audi for 2026, describing the reports as “uncorroborated rumours”.
Does Leclerc have an exit clause?
Ac♌cording to S🍷PORT1, it is actually Leclerc who is giving Ferrari a headache amid uncertainty over his future.
Leclerc’s current deal is due to run out at the end of 2024 and the Monegasque has been heavily linked with Mercedes as a potential replacement for the out-of-contract 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton, who is yet to commit to the Germaꦡn manufacturer.
Marko suspects Leclerc’s contract will include some kind of perfo𝓰rmance clause that would allow𒁏 for an early separation.
“These performance cla💞uses are common today,” said Marko.
“It roughly states that a driver must have a🦩 certain number of points at a certain time of the season, usually in late ꩲsummer, so that the contract is automatically renewed.
“If this is not the case, both p൩arties have the opportunity to dissolve the contract. For this reason, our Sebastian Vettel was able to sw⭕itch to Ferrari so easily in 2015.”

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