Sainz makes Williams F1 debut in Abu Dhabi take a look at

Carlos Sainz has made his first public look as a Williams Components 1 driver within the official post-season take a look at in Abu Dhabi.

After getting an early style of the Williams FW46 in a personal filming run on Monday, Sainz returned to the monitor on Tuesday morning to start out his new stint with the British workforce in earnest.

Sainz accomplished a complete of seven laps on his first run, setting a finest time of 1m26.484s. For comparability, he certified third on the grid for final weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a 1m22.824s flier within the Ferrari, albeit in a lot totally different circumstances.

He appeared for his first official day at Williams in a plain white race swimsuit, whereas his helmet was additionally devoid of any sponsorship branding.

In contrast to earlier years, groups are allowed to enter two vehicles within the Yas Marina Circuit, permitting the Spaniard to get a headstart along with his preparations for 2025.

Being a race driver, Sainz is allowed to run the homologated model of Pirelli’s 2025 tyres, which his former workforce Ferrari had developed this yr.

He could have 10 units of tyres at his disposal one C2, three every of the C3 and C4, two C5 and one C6, the last-mentioned being the brand new ultra-soft compound that may be a new addition to Pirelli’s 2025 vary.

Pirelli will not be defining its personal programme for the tyre take a look at, that means groups can organise their run plans as they see match – and provide the info to the Italian agency.

Williams has nominated Components 3 race winner Luke Browning as its designated rookie driver for the one-day take a look at on the Yas Marina Circuit. 

All rookies should use 2024-specification of Pirellis, however will be capable to select between C3, C4 and C5 tyres.

Sainz selected to maneuver to Williams after having to vacate his seat on the Scuderia for seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton, who’s becoming a member of the squad after 12 years at Mercedes to accomplice Charles Leclerc.

Williams is Sainz’s fifth totally different workforce in F1, having made his debut with Toro Rosso (now RB), moved to Renault in 2017 and spent an extra two years at McLaren from 2019-20 previous to his time at Ferrari.

In the meantime, RB driver Yuki Tsunoda is getting his first alternative to check Crimson Bull’s F1 automobile at Yas Marina. Because the power drinks big finalises the way forward for the underperforming Sergio Perez at its flagship workforce, Tsunoda is getting a long-awaited run within the RB20.

Nonetheless, all indicators level to Liam Lawson getting the nod to maneuver as much as Crimson Bull ought to it resolve to drop Perez after 2024.

Monitor motion, which started at 9am native time, continues till 6pm within the night.