Scuderia Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz will be in his regular spot on the SF-24 single-seater for the third round of the 2024 Formula 1 championship, the Australian Grand Prix. The Spaniard rested in Madrid after the appendectomy surgery he underwent last Saturday in Jeddah and has planned an appropriately early departure for Melbourne over the weekend to break up the flight to Oceania and adjust well to the time zone.
The Spaniard had greatly impressed the Maranello team because the day after the surgical operation, he was already at the Italian pit box to follow Oliver Bearman’s debut on his car: Carlos sat with the engineers in the pit box and was able to analyze the behavior of the young Englishman’s car from the telemetry data.
Scuderia Ferrari goes to Melbourne to confirm its role as the second force in the championship while waiting for the first updates to arrive in the first Asian trip, the Japanese Grand Prix, which will take place at the Suzuka circuit. Carlos Sainz is eager to get back in the car because he immediately found a good feeling with the SF-24 and is aware of aiming for a positive result at Albert Park as well, after the podium he secured in a comeback at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
In Australia, Formula 2 will also race, so potentially, Oliver Bearman will be there as a reserve driver. The team has not activated alternative plans, trusting in the recovery of the Spaniard: Carlos Sainz wants to be regularly in his place, also because the team managing him wants to give themselves a month to sign a contract for the next season, after Carlos Sainz found himself without a seat with Lewis Hamilton’s joining the Maranello team from next year.
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The Spaniard has many options open, not least Red Bull where he could return to coexist with Max Verstappen just as he did at the beginning of his career. Aston Martin and Audi are also in the mix, while there doesn’t seem to be direct interest from Mercedes, despite the fact that Toto Wolff was seen talking to Carlos Sainz’s father several times in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Among Carlos Sainz’s collateral initiatives (in February the Ferrari driver announced the birth of the CS55 Racing brand in karting in collaboration with the Italian manufacturer OTK), there will be the supply of equipment to the Karting Academy, the new series of the Real Federación Española de Automovilismo reserved for children aged between 6 and 8 years old, which will compete in the Spanish Karting Championship (CEK Finetwork).
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