McLaren thanks Sainz: "There is some bad blood here and there with others"

"We actually had to give him permission to go speak with Ferrari, and we gave him that permission, so it was very above board", Brown said in conversation with Sky Sports. So the relationship between Sainz and McLaren remains untouched and with a view to the 2020 season that still has to be driven, that is of course positive news. “I think you can see by the way we are eventually going to part that we are very much going to race together this year."

McLaren looks at situation other teams

At the race stables in Woking, they are happy with the way in which the switch from Sainz to Ferrari has come about. “I think it’s great to see that drivers and teams can separate and there not be animosity", said the American, who sees that this is not the case at every race stable at the moment. "Because I think that if you look at some of the other movements, it looks like unfortunately there’s some bad blood. And yet those people still need to race together this year."

This could be the case, for example, of Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari or Renault with Daniel Ricciardo. They still have more than fifteen Grands Prix with each other through a door, while behind the scenes they have said goodbye before 2021 in a perhaps not so nice way.

Relationship Sainz with Norris

Brown hopes that the attracted Ricciardo will be as happy with Lando Norris as he was with Sainz. "He worked really well with Lando, He’s very fast, he’s a team player, I never felt nervous when Lando and Carlos were round each other in the track. Some of the other teams you see the team mates get near each other, and they seem to have magnets", he concludes.