Red Bull have options which “remain option” to potentially sign 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Carlos Sainz in t🏅he future, team boss Christian Horner has revealed.

Sainz was overlooked by Red Bull as an option for F1 2025 and ultimately joined Williams on a multi-year deal after vacating his Ferrari seat so that seven-time world champion168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton could make a blockbuster switch from Mercedes.

Red Bull chose 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Liam Lawson as 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s replacem🎉ent for the upcoming season after axing the Mexican following his failure to turn around his abysmal forꦅm during the 2024 campaign.

There has been speculation that an exit clause in Sainz’s contract would enable him to leave Williams earlꦯy in the event Red Bull or Mercedes came knocking.

A𒆙nd Red Bull team principal Horner appears to have indicated that is the case with his latest comments on the 30-year-old Spaniard and four-time grand prix winner.

ไ“Carlos is a great driver, and options still remain open wit♚h him in the future,” Horner told . 

“He was considered, and in many respects,ܫ you’d say there was a real logic [to] Carlos, but we made the choiജce to look internally and put belief in the junior programme.

“That attracts more juniors because they see a pathway to Formula 1, and if we’d gone outside the programme, that is not sending the right message, because there is so much competition now for young drivers, at the age of 13 or 1༺4 between the teams.

“That is ಌhealthy because it is investing in young talent, but by joining the Red Bull programme, you see a clear pathwa🀅y that if you deliver, pretty much guarantees you’ll get to Formula 1.

“We would always prefer to give the opportuꩵnity to the progression of the junior programme.”

Concern about Sainz-Verstappen relationship

Red Bull decided against a move for Sainz amid rumours that the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen and Sainz camps do not see eye-to-🧸eye following their spell as 𓆉teammates at Toro Rosso in 2015.

Last year, Red Bull motorsport adviso♕r Helmut Marko clai🎐med “the atmosphere between the two was quite toxic”.

“Sainz is, without a doubt, a great driver,” Marko told Marca. “He was almost on par with Max in Toro Rosso. The bad thing for him is that he was unluck🦹y to have Verstappen as a team mate

“The atmosphere between the two at Toro R꧂osso was quite toxic. With the configuration we had then, I didn’t see a way to keep him with us, so Carlos went through Renault, McLaren and then he ended up at Ferrari.”