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The High Performance Podcast · 2025-07-21 · 56 min · 10,825 words

Carlos Sainz: Inside My Ferrari Exit, Red Bull Rumours and Why I Believe In Williams (E361)

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Disappointed, frustrated before the surgery, you are full of doubts. For some reason they've decided this is my character building year. I received a phone call. I went from believing I was gonna be in Ferrari for a while, suddenly Louis is replacing me. It never occurred to me that that could happen.

Every athlete to thrive, they need to be in a team where they feel loved in a way or they feel everyone is behind them. That's what makes me smile now being in Williams. That is the voice of Formula One driver Carlos Sainz, this week's guest on high performance. He invited me over to Monaco for an exclusive conversation that will take you inside the most intense, political and challenging chapter of his F1 career. Because Carlos is about to reveal really for the first time what actually happened when Ferrari picked up the phone and told him.

he was going to leave. He also shares openly why he was turned down by Red Bull, why that was one of his toughest moments, and then how he managed to reset his thinking to embark on a new project with Williams. And when talking of Williams, he tells us how soon James Vowles thinks they might win the Formula One world title and how quickly he thinks they might do it. He also shares in detail how he found being Max Verstappen's teammate at Toe Rosso, and that is very interesting. The personal rules that he set to stay professional

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