Carlos Sainz

If you ask me in three, four years' time where I would like to be, I'd say ideally fighting for a championship with Williams.

There's nothing that would make me happier.

than putting all my effort using the peak of my career to bring back one of the greatest teams in F1 back to the top.

And if we manage to achieve that, I'll look back being very, very proud for sure.

How was the shortest off season of your career?

I'm good, thank you.

But yeah, it was a short time away from the circuits.

But at the same time, I think everyone was so excited with the new regs and like looking forward to get back to the track that

Yeah, I didn't care too much about having a short break because I also wanted to get back soon to see how these new cars feel.

Yeah, I think you said it well.

I think it was...

Pure weeks off was only two weeks, because for us as drivers, we are normally busy all the way until the 20th of December after the season ends.

We have the Abu Dhabi test, then we go back to the factory, do our last simulator sessions of the year, maybe some end of year Christmas celebrations with the team, which still commitments all the way, sponsor things all the way until the 20th.

And then we have obviously Christmas off,

probably until the beginning of New Year's where we start our training again.

And it's only two weeks.

If it wasn't for how early we had to be in the simulator mid-January, early January, we would have got maybe a bit more time off.

But yeah, you need to start training all over again and you need to start going to see the team again.

No time for any half Ironman competitions.

No, not for me.