Carlos Sainz has stated that his timeline\u00a0to get back to winning ways in F1 has been \u201cdelayed\u201d\u00a0by Williams’ slip in the pecking order.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Williams targeted the 2026 regulation reset as an opportunity to escape the midfield fight and get itself in the fight towards the front of the pecking order.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, it faced various setbacks at the start of the year and has been chasing car performance all season, leaving it down on its 2025 position.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
It marks a disappointing situation for Sainz, who pinned his hopes on a rapid ascension back to the front of the grid after leaving Ferrari.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI think there\u2019s no secret that my expectations, or let\u2019s say my timeline for how long it would take me to win a race again and for Williams to be the place to do that, have been delayed by a year or two,\u201d Sainz told media including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt depends on how quickly we manage to bounce back from this situation.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, I had in my mind a timeframe that I was willing to accept in order to help this team get back into a winning position, and how long I was willing to wait to be fighting for wins again.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly, that timeline, unfortunately for all of us, because obviously the team is also affected by it, is going to be longer than we expected, and that path is going to be longer than expected.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Sainz has not yet confirmed if he will remain with Williams for the 2027 campaign, stating he is using the summer break to mull over his options and come to a decision.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
However, the Spaniard insisted he still has confidence in the future of the Williams project.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving said that, I see what the team is investing in the future,\u201d he said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cI still see the vision of the team being pretty clear. I see how much is going on behind the scenes when you leave the current car performance aside, and this still gives me confidence and motivation that we\u2019re going in the right direction.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just that this year\u2019s car, for whatever reason or reasons, has been very underperforming and has fallen very short of our expectations for many different reasons that I\u2019m not going to talk about again here today.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\u201cClearly, my timings have changed. I need to readapt my thinking into portraying myself now in three to four years\u2019 time and take a decision, but I\u2019m still confident in the path and the project that we are in.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Sainz has stated that his timeline\u00a0to get back to winning ways in F1 has been \u201cdelayed\u201d\u00a0by Williams’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-850490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}