Carlos Sainz Jr. has work to do.
Carlos Sainz Jr. has gotten very, very comfortable with the middle of the top 10 in the Formula 1 driver's championship. He has finished sixth or fifth in each of the past four seasons, a time period that included a switch from McLaren to Ferrari. It means he should be in Formula 1 as long as he wants to be, but it also means he has the potential for a leap to championship contention that has never come. Until last season, he had never won a race.
This is the seventeenth installment of our driver-by-driver preview of the 2023 Formula 1 season. This weekend, we will be covering Ferrari. You can find the rest of our previewsNow, the situation is complicated. Sainz spent 2021 fighting teammate Charles Leclerc for position in the mid-field, but in 2022 the Ferrari team briefly tasted championship contention and Leclerc emerged clearly ahead of his teammate for most of the season.
That led him to a contract with Renault for 2018, but the team decided to move quickly and hire him for the remainder of 2017 for the final four races of the season. Sainz left Renault after just one full season for McLaren, where he started in 2019. Two years of outperforming Lando Norris got him a call from Ferrari, where he replaced Sebastian Vettel in 2021. Sainz went on to narrowly beat out Leclerc to lead Ferrari in 2021.That advantage over Leclerc did not last into 2022.
The concern is that he has fallen out of favor at a team that has won so many titles by heavily prioritizing a lead driver. That was not the case in 2021, but if Sainz wants to return to equal footing with Leclerc he will need to perform on Leclerc's level early and often. If he can seize strong finishes ahead of his teammate early, he will put himself in a position where Ferrari will have no choice but to back him for a potential championship push.
The question is whether or not Sainz can go a level further. He is already an excellent professional Formula 1 driver, surpassing the likes of Valtteri Bottas and Sergio Perez. Can he reach the level of the Verstappens and Hamiltons of the world? To do that, he first has to once again show he is on the level of his own teammate.
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