A few days after recovering from acute appendicitis,
Carlos Sainz
returned to the tracks to become the most coveted driver of the moment.
The Golden Boy.
Faced with an inevitable reconfiguration for next year's championship, the Spaniard has clear priorities: he must attract attention, and what better way to do it than by taking first place in the
Australian GP
.
Knowing that for next season his place at
Ferrari
will be occupied by
Lewis Hamilton
, Sainz is taking charge of making use of his talent.
"It only took one race for everyone to agree," said Italian media La Gazeta del Deporte.
Today,
Carlos Sainz is the most valuable driver on the circuit
, and all the teams have him in their sights.
Sainz returned to shine.
In the weekend's race, after the retirement of
Max Verstappen
, the Spaniard took his best tricks from the galley.
He got first place with a key strategy:
knowing how to stretch the life of the tires in the best way to obtain good performance
.
"I'm still out of work for a year, so I guess this will help," the 29-year-old Spaniard told reporters after dazzling on the slopes of Melbourne.
His teammate and who took second place in the weekend's race,
Charles LeClerc,
stated that "he is one of the most highly rated drivers in the paddock."
It can be assumed that he will not be unemployed for much longer.
In fact, the comments of
Christian Horner
, boss of
Red Bull
, served to fuel some rumors that the Spaniard could begin to be part of Max Verstappen's team.
facing 2025. "We want to have the best pilots, and sometimes we have to look outside. Today an unemployed pilot won," he told the press.
For his part, his former teammate at McLaren, Lando Norris also commented on the talents that Sainz possesses: "
I think that the people who know him know what he is capable of doing
, they know his level of effort, his concentration and dedication to wanting to be one of the best, exactly as he has shown today and over the last few weeks.
If Carlos continues to play all his cards well, he could be the one who chooses his next team and not the other way around.
Among his options are
Mercedes
, although for a very short term (until 2025),
Aston Martin
, and
Audi
.
The most interesting speculation points to Red Bull, but as Horner says, "the market is very fluid with certain drivers."