F1 News
Sainz: "If Ferrari devours its drivers, what do these teams do?”
- GPblog.com
It remains to be seen whether he will receive the trophy next year for the smartest transfer in Formula 1, but Carlos Sainz has certainly created a stir with his move to Ferrari. He defends his choice by comparing it with the working methods of other teams on the grid.
In an interview with Motorsport.com, Sainz reacted as follows to the flying analyses that claim that Ferrari attracts strong drivers but then swallows them up and deprives them of all their strength. Sainz replied: "Ferrari is not a team that eats and devours its drivers. If you see Vettel's career… what driver wouldn't have wanted to spend five years at Ferrari like he has been?”
"The longest I've been in a team is two years, so if Ferrari is a team that devours drivers, what are Renault, Toro Rosso and all the others?” Sainz has also spent two years with McLaren.
Works in cycles
Sainz then argues that instead of the swallowing rhetoric, Ferrari's strategy can be better explained by a cycle metaphor. Sainz: "Alonso also spent five years at Ferrari. That doesn't seem like a team that devours drivers, but cycles.Of course I want to have a cycle at Ferrari, create a similar environment [to McLaren] there. I already have experience in creating a works team, and I hope I have a team equal, similar or better than the one I have at McLaren. I'm going to do my best to have it."