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Expressing his surprise that the more competitive teams didn’t try harder to make a deal with Sainz, Vowles said: “I rate him as one of the top four drivers, if not at times the number two driver on the grid. Why wouldn’t you want that in your stable?
“When you’re in Red Bull’s position, where you’ve got a constructors’ championship at risk, it’s always a hard decision but, yes, I would have Carlos alongside Max. If you’re in Mercedes, it’s a hard choice. They’ve swayed between not being competitive – in which case it makes sense to invest in the future – to being very competitive. Now it’s a harder decision as to whether you invest in known entities or unknown.
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“They’ve made their decisions sensibly and if Red Bull decided to do similar, again there’s reasons behind it that I won’t be aware of because they’re multiple world champions and don’t make decisions lightly. But I was surprised.”
Williams have struggled over the last few seasons with their best recent finish in the constructors’ championship coming in 2023, when they achieved 28 points and narrowly took seventh-place ahead of then-named AlphaTauri.
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