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Formula 1: Ferrari reveals Carlos Sainz's official start date
23/01/2021
TEAM Ferrari has confirmed when Carlos Sainz Junior's first day at work will be as Spanish Formula 1 fans get set to watch the son of a four-wheeled legend shift his career up a gear.
Currently the only Spaniard at the élite end of motor racing – at least, until twice-world champion and Sainz's mentor Fernando Alonso's eagerly-awaited comeback – Carlos was born with the bar raised high in his field and, now, having joined one of the top scuderie on the circuit, it has just been whacked up another few notches.
The giant leap to team Ferrari is not necessarily going to see Carlos scooping up victories or becoming welded to the podium for a season in the way Sebastian Vettel, whom he will be replacing, once did – it has been made clear to the up-and-coming Madrid-born driver that he will be playing second fiddle to his promising star team mate, Monaco's Charles Leclerc.
Personal glory relegated to the back seat, Carlos will be able to concentrate on improving his technique and gaining experience with the crème of Formula 1 teams – while he remains a small fish in a big pond, the pressure to prove his worth through significant results will be far less full-on.
He officially gets behind the wheel of what will be his racing car for the next few years this coming Wednesday, January 27, Ferrari has just announced.
Carlos is also set to drive it again on Thursday, January 28.
“This week's test drives are a chance for Sainz to get to grips with the team's procedures and get to know the engineers he will be working with this season,” Ferrari explains.
His car will be the 2018 SF71H, the one Leclerc and Vettel used last June during training in Mugello just before the season started after the global lockdown delayed its beginning, and which was also used in the young drivers' tests in late September.
In these, Robert Schwartzman, Callum Ilott and Michael Schumacher's son Mick took part – the latter, who looks set to be a chip off the old block, has signed up with team Haas.
Ferrari, which announced Carlos Sainz's start on Twitter using flame emojis, said its initial plans were for Leclerc to begin his test-drive on Tuesday this week (January 26), which will be 44 days after his last race – the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final date of the 2020 season – although this will depend upon how his health progresses.
Leclerc was found to be positive for Covid-19 on January 14, meaning his scheduled test drive will only be 12 days after he was diagnosed and could be too soon – although his condition is not said to be serious and his symptoms are 'mild'.
Sainz's future scuderia colleague said at the time that he immediately self-isolated at home in Monaco after finding out he had been in contact with a positive, and told everyone he had been near in the previous two weeks or so.
Leclerc is the fifth Formula 1 driver to have caught Covid, after Sergio Pérez, Lance Stroll, Lewis Hamilton and, a few days before Leclerc himself, Sainz's old McLaren colleague, Brit Lando Norris.
Norris said on Twitter that his only symptoms were having lost his senses of taste and smell – signs that immediately aroused his suspicions and made him decide to take a test - and revealed he was self-isolating in Dubai.
Despite his past and future team mates both having become infected, Sainz, fortunately, has escaped catching Covid so far.
His dad, Carlos Sainz Senior, was hoping to clinch a fourth Dakar Rally win this month after his hat-trick in January 2020, but although he won one stage – beating local legend Yazeed Al-Rajhi – the 58-year-old's 7,856-kilometre trek across Saudi Arabia was fraught with problems, from mechanical failure to actually getting lost.
Having won the Dakar first time aged 47 and then again at 55 and 57, Carlos Sainz Senior still refuses to retire, despite having twice broken the record for being the Rally's oldest winner.
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TEAM Ferrari has confirmed when Carlos Sainz Junior's first day at work will be as Spanish Formula 1 fans get set to watch the son of a four-wheeled legend shift his career up a gear.
Currently the only Spaniard at the élite end of motor racing – at least, until twice-world champion and Sainz's mentor Fernando Alonso's eagerly-awaited comeback – Carlos was born with the bar raised high in his field and, now, having joined one of the top scuderie on the circuit, it has just been whacked up another few notches.
The giant leap to team Ferrari is not necessarily going to see Carlos scooping up victories or becoming welded to the podium for a season in the way Sebastian Vettel, whom he will be replacing, once did – it has been made clear to the up-and-coming Madrid-born driver that he will be playing second fiddle to his promising star team mate, Monaco's Charles Leclerc.
Personal glory relegated to the back seat, Carlos will be able to concentrate on improving his technique and gaining experience with the crème of Formula 1 teams – while he remains a small fish in a big pond, the pressure to prove his worth through significant results will be far less full-on.
He officially gets behind the wheel of what will be his racing car for the next few years this coming Wednesday, January 27, Ferrari has just announced.
Carlos is also set to drive it again on Thursday, January 28.
“This week's test drives are a chance for Sainz to get to grips with the team's procedures and get to know the engineers he will be working with this season,” Ferrari explains.
His car will be the 2018 SF71H, the one Leclerc and Vettel used last June during training in Mugello just before the season started after the global lockdown delayed its beginning, and which was also used in the young drivers' tests in late September.
In these, Robert Schwartzman, Callum Ilott and Michael Schumacher's son Mick took part – the latter, who looks set to be a chip off the old block, has signed up with team Haas.
Ferrari, which announced Carlos Sainz's start on Twitter using flame emojis, said its initial plans were for Leclerc to begin his test-drive on Tuesday this week (January 26), which will be 44 days after his last race – the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final date of the 2020 season – although this will depend upon how his health progresses.
Leclerc was found to be positive for Covid-19 on January 14, meaning his scheduled test drive will only be 12 days after he was diagnosed and could be too soon – although his condition is not said to be serious and his symptoms are 'mild'.
Sainz's future scuderia colleague said at the time that he immediately self-isolated at home in Monaco after finding out he had been in contact with a positive, and told everyone he had been near in the previous two weeks or so.
Leclerc is the fifth Formula 1 driver to have caught Covid, after Sergio Pérez, Lance Stroll, Lewis Hamilton and, a few days before Leclerc himself, Sainz's old McLaren colleague, Brit Lando Norris.
Norris said on Twitter that his only symptoms were having lost his senses of taste and smell – signs that immediately aroused his suspicions and made him decide to take a test - and revealed he was self-isolating in Dubai.
Despite his past and future team mates both having become infected, Sainz, fortunately, has escaped catching Covid so far.
His dad, Carlos Sainz Senior, was hoping to clinch a fourth Dakar Rally win this month after his hat-trick in January 2020, but although he won one stage – beating local legend Yazeed Al-Rajhi – the 58-year-old's 7,856-kilometre trek across Saudi Arabia was fraught with problems, from mechanical failure to actually getting lost.
Having won the Dakar first time aged 47 and then again at 55 and 57, Carlos Sainz Senior still refuses to retire, despite having twice broken the record for being the Rally's oldest winner.
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