The battle for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz’s future is heating up at Silverstone.

The Ferrari driver will be replaced by Lewis Hamilton next season, so is plotting his next mo🍬ve.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:2025 F1 driver line-up hinges on where Sainz pledges his future.

Williams, Sau𒀰ber and Alpine are the three teams𝄹 credited with the strongest interest, but Mercedes could surprisingly re-enter the mix.

Andrea Kimi Antonelli, their 17-year-old prodigy, is ninth in Formula 2 after seven rounds and Mercedes haven’t yet com🌸mitted to him by offering him an F1 deal.

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff was asked by  if🐷 Sainz is still an option for him.

“I don't want to makཧe a decision quickly. But yes, he is,” Wolff replied.

“If we have more time to decide, Carlos is definitely still an opportunity, but Carlos needs to make a decision about what he does💛 with the other teams.

“I think we have narrowed down the group of drivers we want to work with iಌn the future. And w﷽e want to make a decision in favour of what Mercedes can have in the next five-six years.

“And Kimi and George have been our junior🍒 drivers for a long time and I would like to stay true to the prog🔜ram.

“That said, with Carlos, you have a certain value, especially in a very close champiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚonship next year you have another driver who is going to be very competitive, who if our car is good, could help us secur🔴e a fight for the constructors' championship.

“There are certainly many arguments in favour. That's why I also want to take my time with the𓄧 deciꦯsion and keep all options open for as long as possible.

“And when I spoke to Carlos I already told him: ‘I'm not sure you can wait as long as I would like you to w♑ait.’”

Wolff appeared to hin�🐠�t at Silverstone that Sainz had re-entered his thinking.

Wolff said about Antonelli, the apparent 𓆏frontrunner for the 2025 Mercedes seat: “He has a lot of pressure. ಞHe’s been talked a lot about.

“His junior formula and go-karting track record is one of a ki🏅nd. And that’s clear that the pressure ramps up.

“It’s like his father꧂ says, a champion needs to be thrown into cold water and nee🐲ds to swim. So they are very clear about that.

“But the driver market at the moment is quite a dynamic, interesting thing. I think because some of the drivers have more options, and some of the teams have more optio🥃ns.

“So it’s… interesting. And yꦐou know it’s like Ber🔥nie said, last week I have an opinion, this week I have a different one.”

Have Alpine won the race for Sainz?

However, in Italy they are certain that Flavio Briatore’s Alpine will win the race for Sain🐠z’s signature.

Briatore,🐼 who signed Michael Schumacher to Benetton🔯 and Fernando Alonso to Renault, has made an F1 comeback with Alpine.

He will convince Sainz to sig🦹n on the dotted line for Alpine in a project tail🙈ored to the 2026 engine rules, report.

Willia🐎ms team principal James Vowles said at Silverstone he has prepared a Plan Y and Plan Z, if he losesꦓ out on Sainz.

“I’ll go ꩵback to saying he’s a world class driver💞,” Vowles said.

“The decision isn’t imminent. It’s not that we need to make it today, and what I’ve said all along is th♛at the timeline isn’t important to me.

“What’s important is that whatever decision we come to or the driver comes to it’s about forging a long-term relationship with each other – i.e. we both see the journey we’re on and want that to be a part of𒊎 their lives.

“I’m fairly sure you’ll see this all cl🗹eaned up before we get to September, which is▨ the normal time if you look at it as a team.

“We are just now going back into a normal schedule where August is spent doing co🌞ntracts, but I’m pretty sure you’ll find it all finalised by then.”