Formula 1: Williams have signed outgoing Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz for the 2025 Formula 1 season on a two-year deal.
Sainz to join Williams on two-year deal | 00:34 Jonathan Wheatley will quit as Red Bull Racing sporting director to become Audi’s first team principal in another high-profile defection from Milton Keynes.
Mark Ellis left to join Mercedes in 2014, the same year former chief aerodynamicist Peter Prodromou switched to McLaren. His timing was fortuitous, with Audi undergoing a sudden restructure just 18 months out from its formal debut in the sport in 2026.Sauber, the team Audi owns and is taking over to turn into its works constructor, has slid precipitously backwards to last in the constructors championship with the slowest car on the grid.
It’s unclear what this will mean for Sauber ‘team representative’ Alessandro Alunni Bravi, the squad’s de facto team principal. Wheatley has been widely credited for the team’s operational slickness, particularly in pit lane. Red Bull Racing’s status for executing the sport’s most consistently quick pit stops was earnt on his watch.His responsibility as sporting director has been to keep the team on the straight and narrow while simultaneously searching for and exploiting any loopholes in the rule book to his advantage or to the disadvantage of rival teams.
The 2021 campaign was the first and last to broadcast radio conversations between the teams’ pit walls and FIA race control, featuring in the television offering in the same style drivers communicate with their engineers.
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