Carlos Sainz Jr says his ꧃two-year deal with McLaren provides him with stability for the first time in his🥂 Formula 1 career.

The Spaniard spent a year on loan to Renault while under contract with Red Bull, before McLaren signed him to replace two-time world champion Fernando Alonso in it🙈s 2019 driver l𝔉ine-up.

Following the expiry of his Red Bull contract, Sainz was keen to secure a two-yeaꦡr deal in order to stop speculation about his future. He penned an agreement with McLaren ahead of 2019, while the Woking-based squad confirmed it will retain Sainz and Lando Norris for next season in the build-up to this year’s British Grand Prix.

“I wanted a🎃 bit of stability in Formula 1 and I felt like I▨’ve never had the stability I deserved in a Formula 1 team,” Sainz said.

“I never had time to bed i🐠nto a Formula 1 team. You could argue I was three years with Toro Rosso but those three years every year in June there were rumours, things going on.

“I wanted to make sure there was stability and no talk about my fut👍ure and I could only focus on✱ Formula 1 and extracting the best out of me.

“Under the Red Bull programme you always feel pressure, in the same way in McLaren you feel pressure to deliver becaus🅰e it’s McLareꦐn,” he added.

“In red Bull I was on a contract that renewed every year. I think sometimes its underestimated how much it’s a boost for a driver to know you’re going to be t𓆏here for a couple of years so you can settle in, find your way with a car, with a team, and I think there’s always examples out there to look at.

“I think it’s the best ওway to perform as an athlete with a bit of stability.”

Asked if having security over his future has enabled him to extr🔜act a greater level of performance, Sainz replied: “It’s a very good question actually and I’m not sure if it’s worth it in terms of performance and in terms of tenths, how much it affects you, when you put the helmet on.

“It’s something that you can never quantify, but what I can tell you is working wiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚth a team you know you’re going to spend more than a year with, definitely the team has with 📖the approach towards you, knowing that you’re going to be driving that car next year, developing the car, asking things for yourself to develop as a driver, 1-1 with the car, it’s definitely a difference.

“You ca🐼n see on a medium- or long-term deal how the whole team and driver works a bit more together. I think you’ve seen it this year with a few drivers that it does take a bit of time ꦏto adapt to a new car nowadays in Formula 1, or to extract the last two tenths of a car.

“Sometimes in a new team it’s not always e🐎asy to find the limit of a car and exploit it consistently. Having that extra years gives me that extra calmness and confidence to know I’m going to spend here a few years and the engineers are going toꦕ also respond to it.”