Carlos Sons: The pair of Max Versestapin in the Red Bill would have been ‘very strong’ if the F -One team signed it for 2025. F1 News

Carlos Sins believes that he may have created a “very strong” pair with Max Versestapin in the Red Bill, because he admitted that he did not understand why he did not choose not to sign it this year.

In the first half of the last season, the driver was a high -profile free agent in the market when Spaniard lost his seat in Ferrari in 2025 with Lewis Hamilton.

But when the four -time race winning was initially started to replace Hamilton in Mercedes or join the Virtan in the Red Bill, nor did the front running team presented them a contract, finally Sanz signed a multi -year period last July.

Red Bill instead made a preliminary call to Sergio Perez to extend the two -year contract, the decision badly as a backfield, Mexico struggled for the form of the rest of the last season because they had to contract with them to leave quickly with them.

Liam Lawson – who continued the first two races of this season in the second car of the Red Bill before returning to the Sister Team Racing Bulls – and Yuki Sonoda struggled to the same seat.

One of the reasons why Red Bill ignored his ex -junior driver, highly -ranked Senses, was considered a tension between the then 20 -year -old Spaniard and 17 -year -old Virtanopin when he was in the first years of the F1 in 2015, which was now a team in Toro Rosso.

“People have concluded the same conclusion or the way they try to explain it, or try to understand it.” High performance pod cast.

“The only thing I can say is that I am really running well with Max. This is what people do not see from outside. In Formula 1 in Toro Russo, we were enmity in our first year, but in terms of it and the way we racked it was relatively healthy enmity.

“And now we’re really running well, so if that’s why I don’t understand why they don’t want me with Max because I think we will become a really strong pair in Formula 1.”

The pair did only in all the season of 2015, and then as a colleague of the Toro Rosso team, the first four races of 2016, Virttepen were promoted to the senior team of the Red Bill to replace Daniel Kait.

Sonz, which is three years older than Veristapen, removed his level in his qualifying head as a team colleagues, though Dutchman scored more points in the races.

Spaniard remained in Toro Rosso for another 17 months before joining the Renault on late debt during the 2017 season. Eventually he completely cut off his relationship with the Red Bill when he signed for McLaren in 2019.

Since Daniel Ricardo left for Renault at the end of 2018, Verstapin has had five colleagues in seven and a half seasons with the Red Bill-who removed the team’s boss Christian Horner a fifteen days ago-four times for the world champion to seek the global champion.

“I think everyone is having a really difficult time being Max’s fellow,” Sens acknowledged.

“I can only say that when I was Max’s team, I didn’t have this difficult time. I was clearly surprised at how fast he was, with how he was a crazy driver.

“He is about to be the best in history, if he is not already the best of history so far, but after that, this first year has given me confidence to know that I can live against anyone.

“I have been with the team with Charles (Lucknow), with Charles (Lucknow), with Norles. I have been the team with very fast boys and maybe I am excellent in the game. [that]’. I know I can take it, and I know I have been successful in the past. “

Sonz may have accepted the Red Bill offer – but Williams prove to be ‘the right environment for flourish.

The Sins, with Charles Lculler, had established as a permanent driver in Ferrari with Charles Lacker in four seasons, winning four races, a 30 -year -old young man acknowledges that he was neglected by other high -ranking teams with vacant seats for 2025, it was a disappointment and a sense of disappointment.

And although he acknowledges that he had accepted the Red Bill Set to meet with Virtanopine, if his offer was already offered, he believed that he had found the right home of “flourish” in the Mahatkanakshi Williams.

“We have gone a long way as a drivers,” said Sens. So it is impossible to know and we will probably never know. Perhaps this is not going to happen anymore.

“But I can only tell you that if the opportunity comes, I would probably take it. Would it be the right thing for my career or how would life come out of this place? We will never know that I am not able to talk about it, I know that I also need a team that supported me fully.

“I know what my abilities as a driver are, and I feel like Williams has given me the right environment to develop with all these abilities.

“I think the good things started to happen too and when you look at the evolution of the car, the evolution of the team and everything, I think it’s going to be better because they have given me the right environment.”

Schedule Belgium GP Schedule of Sky Sports F1

Thursday 24 July
1pm: Drivers’ press conference

Friday 25 July
7.55am: F3 practical
9.05am: F2 Practice
11 am: Belgian GP Practice One (Sessions starts 11.30am in the morning)
12.55 PM: F3 Qualifying
1.50pm: F2 qualifying
Evening 3 pm: Belgium GP Sprint Qualifying (Sessions starts at 3.30 pm)

Saturday 26 July
8.10am: F3 Sprint
Morning 10 pm: Belgium GP Sprint (Lights Out at 11 am)
12.20 pm: Ted’s Sprint Notebook
12.40pm: F2 Sprint
2pm: Belgium GP qualifying (Sessions starts 3pm)
Evening 5 pm: Ted’s Qualifying Notebook

Sunday 27 July
7.25am: F3 Feature Race
8.55am: F2 Feature Race
10.40AM: Porsche Superkup Race
Night 12.30 pm: Grand Prix Sunday: Belgium GP Blood Up*
2pm: Grand Prix of Belgium*
Evening 4 pm: Checker Flag: Belgium GP reaction*
5 pm: Ted’s Notebook

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