STAND AND DELIVER

Whisper it, but for a while it was looking as if Ferrari wasn’t quite as keen for Carlos Sainz to stay on as Carlos was to sign a new contract – but he’s turned it around this year and, as Andrew Benson explains, that Singapore win is only part of the reason Carlos has convinced the powers that be at Maranello that he’s the man for the job…

WORDS ANDREW BENSON

IN THE MIDST OF ANOTHER TOUGH YEAR for Ferrari, Carlos Sainz has had his best season yet for the team, and it looks as if it will secure him a long-term future at Maranello. Just after the summer break, Sainz’s position at Ferrari looked less guaranteed. He wanted to stay beyond the end of his current contract, which finishes next season, but the team wasn’t as sure. There were questions about the dynamic between Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc; about some of the ways the intense competition between them had occasionally frayed more than the matey official Ferrari social media posts would suggest; about whether Sainz really was the best long-term partner for Leclerc, who remains the team’s primary driver in heart and mind, even if Ferrari doesn’t designate them as one…

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