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Sainz will get permission to drive for Williams in 2024 Abu Dhabi take a look at
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Sainz will get permission to drive for Williams in 2024 Abu Dhabi take a look at

By Miles Cooper November 15, 2024
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Williams has introduced that Carlos Sainz has acquired Ferrari’s permission to look in Components 1’s season-concluding Abu Dhabi tyre take a look at to get an early pattern of his new staff’s automotive.

Sainz will be part of Williams alongside Alex Albon in 2025, along with his present deal to race for Ferrari expiring on the finish of the yr and his seat being taken by present Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.

Each Sainz and Hamilton will stay contracted to their present squads till the top of the calendar yr, which implies if their new groups needed them to end up within the Abu Dhabi take a look at they would want to hunt permission.

Mercedes has organized end-of-year promotional commitments for Hamilton after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with Motorsport.com revealing earlier this week that he’ll due to this fact get his first style of Ferrari F1 equipment in a Testing of Earlier Automobiles run at an unspecified date in early 2025.

However Sainz can now bounce straight from Ferrari’s SF-24 to testing Williams FW46 within the Abu Dhabi take a look at that may happen two days after the 2024 season finale – through which he’ll hoping his present staff can beat McLaren and Purple Bull to the constructors’ title.

In a press release launched on Friday afternoon, Williams mentioned it’s “happy to announce right now that Carlos Sainz will be part of the staff for the upcoming Abu Dhabi end-of-season take a look at, marking the primary steps in his preparations for the 2025 season”.

The assertion added: “This early alternative will permit each Carlos and Williams to start constructing their relationship.

Sainz will get permission to drive for Williams in 2024 Abu Dhabi take a look at

Alex Albon, Williams Racing, and Carlos Sainz, Scuderia Ferrari, chat on the grid

Photograph by: Mark Sutton

“The take a look at session will present a precious likelihood for Carlos to start integrating into his new staff setting, and he’ll drive the FW46 for the primary time.

“Carlos will drive for Williams alongside Alex Albon in 2025, forming one of the formidable driver line-ups on the grid.”

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The Abu Dhabi take a look at is run by Pirelli, with F1’s guidelines requiring every taking part staff to subject each its automobiles, however with just one stuffed by a daily driver or new signing (reminiscent of Haas will do that yr with present Alpine racer Esteban Ocon). However it’s unclear who Williams will get to check the opposite FW46 alongside Sainz.

Since he changed Logan Sargeant after the Dutch GP, Williams junior Franco Colapinto has now accomplished greater than the utmost permitted two races to qualify as a rookie, with a driver of that standing required to be fielded by every staff within the Abu Dhabi take a look at.

Motorsport.com understands that outgoing Haas racer Nico Hulkenberg can also be set to drive within the take a look at for the Sauber staff with which he’ll race subsequent yr.

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