Carlos Sainz: pushing for progress with Williams

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Five years after Carlos Sainz left McLaren, his former team and his former teammate are the reigning Formula 1 World Champions. As he watched Lando Norris reach the summit of world motorsport, did he ever think ‘that could have been me?’.

Speaking to Tom Clarkson, Carlos reflects on leaving McLaren and becoming a race winner with Ferrari before joining Williams. He remembers feeling ‘powerless’ during a difficult start to the 2025 season, and reveals the work which led him to stand on the podium later in the year.

Carlos gives his first impressions of the 2026 F1 cars and explains why he wants to use the ‘peak’ of his career to take Williams back to the top.

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0:40.3	Carlos Seitz left McLaren in 2020.
0:44.3	Five years later, his former team and his former teammate are the reigning world champions.
0:50.3	But when I asked him if he has any regrets, his answer was immediate.
0:55.0	No, and I tell you why not.
0:58.0	Carlos is working on something, building something with Williams.
1:03.0	As F1 enters a new era, he feels he's in the right team.
1:07.0	He's confident their time will come.
1:09.0	If you ask me in three, four years time where I would like to be, I'd say ideally,
1:14.6	fighting for a championship with Williams.
1:16.6	There's nothing that would make me happier than putting all my effort
1:21.6	using the pick of my career to bring back one of the greatest teams in F1 back to the top.
1:26.6	And if we managed to achieve that, I'll look back being very, very proud for sure.
1:32.3	Hello everyone, I'm Tom Clarkson, and this is the first F1 Beyond the Grid of 2026.
1:48.3	I sat down with Carlos Sites after the first pre-season test in Bahrain.
1:53.2	He'd had a taste of his new car, enough to talk about how it feels behind the wheel and to see
1:58.7	where the team needs to improve.
2:03.2	We also look back at his first season with Williams, how he went from feeling powerless to reaching the podium. And he talks about
2:09.6	what he calls his life's project, winning with Williams.
2:24.9	Carlos, welcome to the show.
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