Damon Hill hands Carlos Sainz huge backing above Charles Leclerc for Mercedes
“Charles Leclerc, ♕maybe, relie🐽s 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 Prix on theꦰ podium, behind the Red Bull duo, with Ferrari teammate and pole-sitter Leclerc in P4.
Sainz, who 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 Lewis Hamilton replaces him at Ferrar🍰i.
Naomi Schiff said about Sainz on Sky Sports: “We saw today, again, that sometimes he asks his engineers questions and they 🐽🍌don’t quite have the answers.
“He almost alerts them to the information that he would like🌸.
“That’s a really good sign. He’s thinking ahead.
At some point, ಞhe came on the radio and said ‘you are not thinking about what I’m thinking about’.
“He is planning, constantly thinking.
“He’s not just a good driver. He’s a good racer a𒁏nd a thinking driver. He ha🌳s his head wrapped around everything.”
Ex-F1 champion Hill added: “If you remember Carlos, famously at Silverstone, countered the strategy that Feꦉrrari suggested he did.
“He knows what he’s doing.
“He’d do very well in a team that 🍌is used to r🧜unning at the front.
“When you come from Ferrari, you k🥀now how a big team works.
“You can deal with all that stuff.
“It’s a big feather in your cap. Apart from the fact that he is a feisty drive🐟r.”
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur🎀 famously does not have a No1 and No2 driver policy, ins⭕tead choosing to treat them equally.
But Ferrari opted to extend L🙈eclerc’s co💧ntract, then sign Hamilton, allowing Sainz to walk free.
Hill compared Ferrari’s duo: “It seems like Charles has awful bad luck and problems in race⛦s.
“It could be a case of: does he 🔯manage it as well as Carlos? Or is Carlos a thinking driver who maybe doesn’t have the ultimate꧒ pace, but in a race it’s not about ultimate pace, it’s about management.”
Schiff added: “There have been moments w꧟here things have happened on Charles’ side of the garage that weren’t necessarily happening on Carlo⭕s’ side, on race day.
“That’s because i🏅t seemed like Carlos was ahead on a few thi𒁃ngs.
“Charles, maybe, reℱlies on his speed quite a lot.”
Hill replied: “You’d never say that Charles has got 🅺the upper hand over Carlos.
“Carlos is able to beat him on many ocꦛcasions, and has done over a season.
“I think that is a point to be made.
“Have we seen the best of Charles? Has he matured to the point where you can look at him and say he could take a title fight rꦕight the way through, without droppi꧒ng the ball?”
The question was posed: would Mercedes’ Toto Wolff prefer to we💦lcome Leclerc or Sainz in 2025 as a replacement for Hami🦹lton?
Hill answered: “If I was Toto, I 🌊thin𝔉k 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 sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everythin꧅g from American sports, to football, to F1.
