Carlos Sainz to Williams for 2025.
On a multi-year deal
Perhaps he knows Adrian Newey has signed there 
Apparently Ferrari felt Neweyâs salary request was âtoo highâ !
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And Perez is staying at Red Bull. For now (2024 season) at least.
Bizarre - however much Max wants to keep any real competition at armâs length, it seems demented to keep banging their collective heads against the brick wall of Chicoâs lack of performance. At his best, he was middling, and heâs not been at his best for way too long.
I donât understand why he would want to go there.
I can understand Merc using Williams to blood contracted young drivers like they did Russell but why would would Sainz want to start at the back of the grid for every race?
Is th bottom of F1 still better than any other form of racing out there?
Williams have been talking up revenues/funding and development lately. Granted itâs not unusual for them but maybe there is summat in it 
Seems Checo is staying after all?? That Twatter link I posted was misleading
Another F1 neophyte question but this is also something I wondered for a while. When I last really watched F1 in the mid-late 90s, I remember wondering what drivers like Pedro Diniz and Olivier Panis were doing, who always languished at the bottom of the table (with their constructors like Arrows, Minardi Ford, etc.). Like were they still doing better professionally than they would joining any other racing series? I guess itâs the equivalent of playing for a bottom tier Premier League team rather than a top Championship one?
Did not know about thisâŚ
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Jonathan Wheatley to Audi F1 as Team Principal.
The way itâs being reported Binotto will do the meatânâveg stuff at the factories, Wheatley will be the show-pony trackside. Seems a curious division of labour if thereâs any germ of truth in it.
I know both of them quite well and that sounds like a sensible way to share the load. Jonathan was no 3 mechanic on Schumacherâs Benetton in 1993 when I was chief engineer and we keep in touch. Mattia was the engine designer at Ferrari.
It is a very strong pairing IMO.
Jon took the mediocre race team at Jaguar and put some discipline in. He knows what is important when loads of people donât, it helps to be very young and learn what it takes to win.
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Thanks Frank
Ferrari have rejected the conditions Newey wanted, so Newey is now looking at a move to Aston Martin.
Who (allegedly 
) have been courting one Max Ver-something-or-other. Really canât see that being an imminent change.
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Aston Martin are said to have impressed Newey with their plans for substantial team investments, including a $1 billion investment in facilities.
Newey is expected to receive $100 million if he spends 4 years with the team.
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