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Sainz makes Williams F1 debut in Abu Dhabi check
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Sainz makes Williams F1 debut in Abu Dhabi check

By Miles Cooper December 10, 2024
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Carlos Sainz has made his first public look as a Williams Formulation 1 driver within the official post-season check in Abu Dhabi.

After getting an early style of the Williams FW46 in a personal filming run on Monday, Sainz returned to the monitor on Tuesday morning to begin his new stint with the British workforce in earnest.

Sainz accomplished a complete of seven laps on his first run, setting a greatest time of 1m26.484s. For comparability, he certified third on the grid for final weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a 1m22.824s flier within the Ferrari, albeit in a lot completely different circumstances.

He appeared for his first official day at Williams in a plain white race swimsuit, whereas his helmet was additionally devoid of any sponsorship branding.

In contrast to earlier years, groups are allowed to enter two automobiles within the Yas Marina Circuit, permitting the Spaniard to get a headstart together with his preparations for 2025.

Being a race driver, Sainz is allowed to run the homologated model of Pirelli’s 2025 tyres, which his former workforce Ferrari had developed this yr.

He can have 10 units of tyres at his disposal one C2, three every of the C3 and C4, two C5 and one C6, the last-mentioned being the brand new ultra-soft compound that could be a new addition to Pirelli’s 2025 vary.

 

Pirelli is just not defining its personal programme for the tyre check, which means groups can organise their run plans as they see match – and provide the info to the Italian agency.

Williams has nominated Formulation 3 race winner Luke Browning as its designated rookie driver for the one-day check on the Yas Marina Circuit. 

All rookies should use 2024-specification of Pirellis, however will have the ability to select between C3, C4 and C5 tyres.

Sainz selected to maneuver to Williams after having to vacate his seat on the Scuderia for seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, who’s becoming a member of the squad after 12 years at Mercedes to associate Charles Leclerc.

Williams is Sainz’s fifth completely different workforce in F1, having made his debut with Toro Rosso (now RB), moved to Renault in 2017 and spent an extra two years at McLaren from 2019-20 previous to his time at Ferrari.

In the meantime, RB driver Yuki Tsunoda is getting his first alternative to check Pink Bull’s F1 automotive at Yas Marina. Because the vitality drinks large finalises the way forward for the underperforming Sergio Perez at its flagship workforce, Tsunoda is getting a long-awaited run within the RB20.

Nonetheless, all indicators level to Liam Lawson getting the nod to maneuver as much as Pink Bull ought to it determine to drop Perez after 2024.

Sainz makes Williams F1 debut in Abu Dhabi check

Yuki Tsunoda, Pink Bull RB20

Picture by: Filip Cleeren

Observe motion, which started at 9am native time, continues till 6pm within the night.

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