Sainz reveals how he has found harmony with his Williams F1 car

As for his own adaptation at {Williams}, Sainz has revealed that he has implemented a series of setup tweaks over the last weeks to extract the maximum from his {Williams}.

After Ferrari had announced last February that seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton would replace Carlos Sainz from 2025, the Spaniard has been linked with several outfits.

Following month-long paddock chatter, the talks ended last August when Williams confirmed that they secured the services of the three-time F1 race winner who joined the Grove-based outfit from Ferrari on a two-year agreement with options to extend.

His Ferrari replacement Hamilton admitted earlier that he has been struggling struggling with engine braking which did not cause an issue for him during his Mercedes tenure.

Speaking about this issue and his transition from Ferrari's F1 car to Williams' F1 machine, Sainz added that some difficulties are natural when drivers change teams as different outfits prefer unique methods of achieving lap time.

““For me, this is just one of the 15 things that you have to re-learn. Some teams like to use engine braking to turn the car, others just prefer using more differential, and others prefer to use brake migration.

"With others, the set-up of the car and putting front-end with the aerodynamics, others with mechanical and others with pitch or ride, you cannot imagine the amount of variability to make the car do a similar lap-time in so many different ways.”

As for his own adaptation at Williams, Sainz has revealed that he has implemented a series of setup tweaks over the last weeks to extract the maximum from his Williams.

“I’m trying high-engine braking in the Williams to see if it works. I’m trying differential maps, I’m trying mechanical balance, I’m trying everything every week to see what the car likes and what it doesn’t.”