Mattia Binotto has said 'many people congratulated' him at the end of last season for choosing Carlos Sainz as the next Ferrari driver. Ferrari made their intentions for 2021 clear two months before the 2020 Formula 1 action had even got under way when they announced Sebastian Vettel would leave the team and be replaced by Sainz, who was to move from McLaren. That transition is now bedding in, with Sainz having taken part in the first half of the Scuderia’s launch for the forthcoming campaign alongside his new team-mate Charles Leclerc. The Spaniard has already driven an old-spec Ferrari in a test at Fiorano and also during the team’s trial of the 2022 prototype Pirelli tyres at Jerez....
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