Carlos Sainz news

McLaren Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr has explained why his "Smooth Operator" messages from the 1984 song by Sade became a recurring joke in 2019 read more »

Norris and Sainz's on-track flair has been seen through much of 2019, pleasing team boss Seidl. read more »

Carlos Sainz believes that the 2021 regulation changes present a "great opportunity" for McLaren to return to the top of the grid. read more »

Following his most successful season since entering F1, Carlos Sainz believes the 2021 regulation changes represent a significant opportunity for McLaren. read more »

Many questioned the move at the time, but Carlos Sainz's decision to join McLaren for 2019 has paid dividends. read more »

Carlos Sainz believes F1's 2021 rules overhaul has the potential to provide McLaren with a crucial "shortcut" back into front-running contention - but stressed... read more »

McLaren's Carlos Sainz has made it clear that he is "totally against" expanding the F1 calendar any further. read more »

Despite the reduction in the length of F1 race weekends from 2021, Carlos Sainz says he's "totally against" a rapid calendar expansion read more »

Carlos Sainz believes a new-found "comfortable environment" at McLaren helped him turn in the best season of his F1 career in 2019. read more »

Video: McLaren's 2019 rewind with Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris read more »

Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris went into the final qualifying session of the season locked at 10-10 in their head-to-head battle. With F1 Insights powered by AWS we break down... read more »

For one last time in 2019, Jolyon Palmer dissects the latest race to discuss Max Verstappen's battle with Charles Leclerc, McLaren's brave strategy to secure Sainz P6... read more »

Lining up Nico Hulkenberg for a final lap pass in Abu Dhabi, Carlos Sainz reckoned if "it worked with" Sergio Perez, it would work with the German. It did. read more »

Carlos Sainz has again voiced his displeasure that a key moment in a midfield battle was not shown on television coverage, with the cameras instead focused on the stale battle... read more »

Carlos Sainz says his last lap move on Nico Hulkenberg to snatch a crucial point in Formula 1's 2019 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix felt like a world championship-winning moment read more »

The season finale in Abu Dhabi was hardly a thriller - but the battle for sixth in the championship went down to the very last lap of the year. read more »

Carlos Sainz says the intensity of the battle to seal sixth spot in the 2019 F1 world championship made him feel like he was fighting for a title. read more »

Carlos Sainz: Last lap battle for sixth 'like a world championship for me' read more »

Lando Norris claimed victory in the one unsettled team-mate qualifying head-to-head for 2019 with a midfield-leading performance in Abu Dhabi on Saturday. read more »

Thursday's press conference with Charles Leclerc, Kevin Magnussen, Max Verstappen, Kimi Raikkonen, Carlos Sainz, Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat. read more »

The fight for sixth could be one of the closest in Abu Dhabi this weekend as the 2019 F1 season comes to a close. read more »

McLaren F1 Team are hoping to carry on the trend of good results throughout 2019 as they head to the 2019 Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Carlos Sainz, has the team on high... read more »

Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris relationship is the stuff of memes but also respect with the Spaniard hailing his team-mate's response to his Brazilian GP podium. read more »

Carlos Sainz says that even though it is "very, very early" to be discussing team options for 2021, at the moment he is looking nowhere but McLaren due to the... read more »

Carlos Sainz Jr says there is "nowhere else to look around" for his next Formula 1 contract beyond McLaren, which he says has "very attractive" momentum on... read more »