Grand Prix winner backed to achieve F1 title with perfect alignment

The Spaniard signed with Williams after Lewis Hamilton joined Ferrari for the 2025 season.

In his first year with the Grove-based team, the Spanish driver managed to score Grand Prix podiums in Azerbaijan and Qatar, as well as a Sprint podium at the Circuit of the Americas, leading the team back to the top three for the first time since the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix.

Williams also secured a confident fifth-place finish in the constructors’ standings, behind the frontrunners, ahead of the upcoming regulation change.

According to Sainz Sr., his son can win the Formula 1 drivers' title one day. Speaking to El Desmarque, he explained: "I have a lot of confidence and I want to believe so. It's only natural that I think so; I'm his father and I've been with him. I know his ability and talent.

"And I think he does have the talent to achieve it. He just needs to be in the right place at the right time; everything has to align perfectly. I think he's fighting and working hard to try and achieve it, and that's what he's focused on," the rally world champion concluded.

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