Two weeks after an appendectomy, Sainz raced to the victory at the Australian Grand Prix and remains the only non-Red Bull driver to win a race, now having done so twice, since 2022.
Fred Vasseur will ‘not talk’ about 2025 after Carlos Sainz’s Aus GP win
And yet he is, as he put it, “jobless” for next season after Ferrari opted not to renew his contract and instead signed Lewis Hamilton as Charles Leclerc’s 2025 team-mate.
Having confirmed in January that Leclerc would continue with the team “beyond” the 2024 season, it was thought it was only a matter of time before Ferrari announced a new deal for Sainz.
Instead, they shocked the F1 paddock when they revealed they’d signed Hamilton after the Briton activated an escape clause in his Mercedes contract that meant he could leave at the end of this year.
Sainz, now in the hunt for a new team for next season, put all that – and his appendectomy – behind him to win the Australian Grand Prix ahead of Leclerc raising questions about whether Ferrari have made the right call.
Vasseur refused to be drawn on that when speaking to DAZN, saying: “I’m not going to talk about next year.
“We reached an agreement with Carlos a few weeks ago to focus only on this championship and not talk about the future.
“There are still twenty races to do, which are twenty opportunities to win. We have to focus on that.”
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