Williams have already left a positive impression on 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz as he prepares for his debut F1 season with the team.

High-profil🀅e signing Sainz was the first Williams driver𓆉 to get behind the wheel of the team’s brand new 2025 car following its launch at Silverstone on Friday.

The four-time grand p🅰rix winner has joined from Ferrari after losing his seat with the Scuderia to make way for the arrival of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

While little can be gleaned from such shakedown outings given the F1 testing restrictions at play and unrepresentative track conditions, Sainz was immediat꧒ely encouraged.

“Honestly positive,” Sainz told media including when asked for his first impressions of the♎ FW47 after driving it for the first time.

“I think most importantly this is a good show of Williams’ progress. To be bold enough to prepare a test where all our main partners are here and all the media are invited to see the first ⛦laps 🥀of the car, shows the trust Williams have in their new tools to produce a car that is going to be working well like it did today without any issues.

“It’s a good sign, a good s🏅howing to the outside work and I think shows the prog🌠ress that Williams is intending to do. Proud of the first day.”

Sainz got to sample Williams’ 2024 challenger in the post-season Abu Dhabi test in December and admitted he was pleasantly surprised by how good the c✱ar was. 

“First impressions are very important because you only have once chance to make a first 🀅impression, and that was very positive,” he explained.

“In Abu Dhabi I found a car that was a ওbit better than I expected. Obviously with some deficiencies compared to the cars I have been driving, bu🔯t not massively far off.

“You can tell the midfield has caught up a lot with the top teams. That’s why in Abu Dhabi Q1 we were all within half a second of each other. To feel that half a second over a full lap, you are talking about half a tenth♎ per corner. You have to really good to feel it.

“I did feel some things for sure and I can just te🔴ll you that I found t💫he team full of motivation, full of energy. Not easy after a triple header, Abu Dhabi test, I normally just see people wanting to go home.

“The energy that I saw that day, and the run plan that we managed to🔯 follow to perfe𒆙ction and execute that day, was important to me. It was a very important test that I think will help going into Bahrain.”

However, Sainz would not be꧒ drawn on his expectations for the upcoming campaign at thiℱs early stage.

“Give me at least Bahrain test to see,” he insisted. “In terms of results it’s going to be incredibly tight against the midfield. It doesn’t matter if you improve seven tenths if the others improve the same,♎ you are still in the same place the grid.

“Iꦡ need time. I need time to analyse where everyone is in Bahrain and then see what we can do in Australia. One thing that is important for me is to keep the momentum up, the p🍎ositive trend and upward trajectory that Williams is on.

“We 🦩keep seeing progress in all areas and if we manage to keep that momentum and 🌊keep riding the wave, that for me is the most important because the big opportunity comes for Williams in ’26 more than ’25.”