At the press conference to show the new Ferrari SF24 for the 2024 F1 season, Carlos Sainz He is one of the great protagonists. A few weeks after learning that he will not continue with Ferrari in 2025 due to the surprise arrival of Lewis Hamiltonthe pilot is confident about the future that opens up beyond Maranello. He admitted that he can accept any challenge after wearing red and pointed out to MD’s question that there are many options open to him for 2025 which could allow him to think about fighting for the title in the coming years. year.
“Is 2024 my last chance to win the title in the next two or three years? I don’t know. Hopefully this won’t be my last chance to win the title. “Many options are opening up for 2025 in the pilot market and I want to make sure I’m looking for the most interesting option in this regard.”argument.
“This is an important year for me because I will continue to wear red and I still have the goal of being champion with Ferrari and I have another option this year, but my ultimate goal is to be F1 world champion in general, I want to achieve it and I hope it can be achieved perfectly this year with Ferrari, but if not, there will be more opportunities in the future. AND“I’m ready for everything that’s coming and I’ve prepared myself more than ever this season and I just want to start the year and focus on 2024,” he expressed.
“I don’t know my next team yet and now we have a little time to decide what will happen. “It’s full of options out there and it’s time to make an important decision in the coming months,” he added to a question from another Spanish journalist.
“The level of pressure I put on myself and my engineers and everything will be exactly the same. The hunger to win races and win championships doesn’t change because of what happens in 2025. We have the same goals and the same ambitions this year and just because I won’t be a Ferrari driver in 2025 doesn’t mean we can’t be champions this year or win races this year. I think it will be exactly the same. I have to focus more on the present, on the race by race, on the car, the sensations and not focus too much on the future,” said the Madrid native.
HAMILTON’S SIGNING
“Obviously, it was a bit of a surprise, like for everyone, when the news of what happened broke. For my part, it can be understood that I learned the news a little earlier. I have a few weeks to reflect and get ready and prepared for the start of the season. “I am focused on the 2024 season. But the fact that it is a little surprise for everyone in F1 is not new.”.
THIS YEAR’S SUCCESSES
“Hopefully we can get more than one win. This is the goal of the whole team. We have everything to close the gap to Red Bull and I think although Red Bull may have a very strong car, I think Ferrari has the ability to close that gap and put us in a position to fight for more achievements. We have to wait a bit until the tests in Bahrain and the first race to see how competitive we are.”
FERRARI’S FIRST KM AT FIORANO (demo)
“We did about 5 kilometers, less than the thousands you completed in the winter test. But it went well. We had no problems in the installation lap and we did 5 laps in total, I did 2 and Leclerc did 3.”
Source: La Verdad
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