Some of the biggest rivalries in F1 history have been between teammates especially when they are evenly matched. Many feel that current Ferrari drivers Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc belong in this category and even though they had a cordial relationship in 2021, it could implode next year. Sainz has given his views on this while speaking to AS

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Can Carlos Sainz And Charles Leclerc Get Along As Teammates In 2022?

Sainz began by speaking about his debut season at Ferrari

“I knew it would be a season of adaptation, tough, especially at the beginning, and the most important thing was to finish the year stronger than I started, with a good progression. And that I have more than fulfilled”

He managed to finish ahead of Leclerc in the championship. Sainz explained if he did anything better that Leclerc

“I don't know what I have done or not done. I know that I focused on myself, I understood the car, I adapted and put it to my liking. And I know that when I have a car to my liking, and I adapt to the way it has to be driven, I am very fast”

He then spoke about the dynamics within the team

“My philosophy is that, to have a comfortable environment within the team and not have to be worried about it. In F1 there is enough pressure and competition, and bad times, to have to put on a bigger weight within your own team”

He signed off by giving his thoughts on getting along with his teammate

“The atmosphere has to be positive. I also want the team to improve and I know it will be like that when the two drivers get along and go in the same direction. Getting along with the teammate in the end is self-interest. It is pure logic”


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Retired F1 world champion Jenson Button pointed out that he “was with [Honda] at the start of this [V6 hybrid] project and it wasn't easy for them” [Autosport]

“In the hybrid era, they struggled when they first came in. They were obviously a couple of years behind everyone else. [There were] lots of reliability issues”

“And I think it's a shame that McLaren didn't hang on with them. It was very easy for them to point the finger when they weren't competitive and they pointed to the most unreliable part, which was the engine”

Honda boss Masashi Yamamoto has revealed that “it was actually [AlphaTauri team principal] Franz Tost who said that Honda can do it” [The Race]

“He had spoken to board members and said we have to continue, to recover. Before talking to Helmut [Marko], we talked to Franz a little bit”

“Even if we had continued with the McLaren project, I don’t really think we could have been successful, nor McLaren either”

Aston Martin’s chief technical officer Andrew Green is of the opinion that basing their 2020 car on the 2019 Mercedes “definitely opened [their] eyes to new ways of working – new concepts, new ideas” [The Race]

“And it has enabled that thinking then to follow through to some degree on the 21’ car but the 2022 car definitely”

“We did our own learning. There’s no shortcut to doing it. It’s not a copy, it’s developing a solution where you’ve got a rough idea of what you think the answer is”

Andrew Westacott, CEO of the Australian GP pointed out that “when you are doing the track modifications we’ve done, you don’t do those just for the three or four years we’ve got of the current contract” [Speedcafe]

“The intent of it is to make the racing more exciting, so what we did was make subtle changes”

“The combination to some of the parts is designed to introduce more tyre strategy, hopefully get more tyre deg with the more aggressive asphalt mix and make for more overtaking”

F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali is “disappointed and also sad that we do not have a German Grand Prix at the moment” [Sport1]

“Unfortunately, I see no real interest from Germany to be part of the Formula One calendar again. It's regrettable”


Will Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz still get along if they are given a title contending car?