Damon Hill hands Carlos Sainz huge backing above Charles Leclerc for Mercedes
“Charles Leclerc, maybe, rel💝ies on his speed quite a lot," Naomi Schiff added
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz is a better fit for Mercedes’ 2025 vacancy than 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc, believes Damon Hill.
Sainz finished the season-opening F1 Bahrain Grand P🧸rix on the podium, behind the Red Bull duo, with Ferrari teammate and pole-sitter Leclerc ൩in P4.
Sainz, wh♈o was also the only non-Red Bull driver to win an F1 grand prix last season, will be out of a seat in 2025 when L💞ewis Hamilton replaces him at Ferrari.
Naomi Schiff said about Sainz on Sky Sports: “We saw today, again, that sometimes he asks his engineers questions and they don’t quite h🎃ave the answers.
“He almost alerts them tꦉo the information that he would like.
“That’s a really good sign. He’s thinking ahead.
At some point, he came on the radio ဣand said ‘you are not thinking about wha♐t I’m thinking about’.
“He is planning, constantly thinking.
“He’s꧅ not just a good driver. He’s a good racer and a 🎃thinking driver. He has his head wrapped around everything.”
Ex-F1 champion Hill added: “If you remember 𒁃Carlos, famously at Silverstone, countered the strategy that Ferrari suggested he did.
“He knows what he’s doing.
“He’d do v✤ery well in a team that is♌ used to running at the front.
“When you come from Fe🍸rrari, you know how a big team works.
“You can deal with all that stuff.
“It’s a big feather🥂 in your cap. Apart froꦚm the fact that he is a feisty driver.”
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur famously does not ha𝄹ve a No1 and No2 driver policy, instead choosing to treat ꧃them equally.
But Ferrari opted to extend Leclerc’s contract, then sign Hamil𓃲💙ton, allowing Sainz to walk free.
Hill 𒉰compared Ferrari’s duo: “It seems like Charles has awful bad luck and probl🌸ems in races.
“It could be a case of: does he manage it as well as Carl♐os? Or is Carlos a thinking driver who maybe doesn’t have the ultimate pace, but in a race it’s not about ultimate pace, it’s about management.”
Schiff added: “There have been moments where things have happened on Charles’♛ side of the garage that weren’t necessarily happening on Carlos’ side, on race♐ day.
“That’s because ෴it seemed like Carlos was ahead on a few things.
“Charles, maybe, relies on his speed q🐼uite a lot.”
Hill replied: “You’d never say that Charlꦍes has got the upper hand over Carlos.
“Carlos is able to beat him on many occasions, and has don𒁃e over a season.
“I think that is a point to be made.
“Have we seen the best of Charles? Has he matur💯ed to the point where you can look at him and say he could take a title fight right the way through, without dropping the ball?”
The question was ꦿposed: would Mercedes’ Toto Wolff prefer to welcome Leclerc or Sainz in 2025 as a replacement for Hamilton?
Hill answered: “If I wa💧s Toto, I think that I’d pick Carlos.
“Carlos is someone who could work well with 🏅the team. The engineers would understand. And he gets the engineering.”
James was a sport🌜s j⛄ournalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
