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How Carlos Sainz will turbocharge Williams - with James Vowles

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🗓️ 4 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Williams Team Principal James Vowles tells Tom Clarkson and 1996 World Champion Damon Hill why ‘performance machine’ Carlos Sainz will take Williams to a new level when he joins the team in 2025.

When did James begin talks with Carlos? Why does he believe he’s now got one of the best driver line-ups in Formula 1? How much pressure does this put on the team to improve performance? And why does James compare negotiations with the Spaniard to dating?

Damon discusses how Carlos will transition from a frontrunning team to one further down the grid and how he’ll work alongside Alex Albon.

This episode was recorded before Jonathan Wheatley's departure from Red Bull was announced, but Tom and Damon discuss why the team decided to stick with Sergio Perez for the rest of 2024.

Plus, what do we know about new Alpine Team Principal Oliver Oakes? And who are the contenders to fill seats left at Mercedes, Alpine and Sauber?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Carlos Science's future is with Williams, Sergio Perez is staying at Red Bull, and Alpin has a new team principle.

0:13.2

Formula One may be slowing down for the summer break,

0:16.2

but the F1 job market has been moving fast.

0:19.6

And there are still seats up for grabs, most interestingly, at Mercedes.

0:27.0

Welcome to the first of our summer break shows.

0:30.0

I'm Tom Clarkson.

0:31.0

Williams' team principal James Vals will join us very shortly to talk things Carlos

0:36.1

Science, but first, the 1996 World Champion Damon Hill is here as well.

0:41.8

Damon, how are you?

0:43.7

What are your reflections of what happened at Spa last week?

0:46.4

Well, they're very positive.

0:47.6

I mean, I enjoyed the race thoroughly,

0:49.4

and it comes hot on the heels of Hungary,

0:52.3

which is also another good race, and you might add Austria as well.

0:56.0

And yeah, it was great. I mean, obviously disappointing for George Russell, who sadly was under the weight limit and it's made a lot of people

1:07.1

very confused.

1:08.1

It's the first question.

1:09.1

I was, I'm interested to see what happens when I do something after a race and I do something and meet

1:14.7

people what sort of questions they ask and then they were all just making references to

1:19.2

being one half kilas under weight you know I was checking in my luggage to go to a golf

1:23.5

tournament in Scotland and charity golf tournament I'm always available for charity

1:27.9

golf tournaments if you're interested but anyway it was great it was great to be

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