[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  This is Formula X [@ThisIsFormu1a1](/creator/twitter/ThisIsFormu1a1) on x 6050 followers Created: 2025-07-22 03:03:58 UTC Carlos Sainz “completely shocked” after learning Ferrari axe from friend: — Carlos Sainz recounted his surprise upon receiving a call in January 2024, confirming his replacement by Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari. Now with Williams, Sainz reflected on the unexpected news during the High Performance podcast: “I think it was around end of January or February. I was in the middle of my training preparation for the 2024 season. I was hopeful that the Ferrari was going to be a competitive car and I had done everything in December and January obviously to prepare myself for that season.” “Contract negotiations with Ferrari were a bit stalled in a weird way because we were talking since October to renew my contract and they kept postponing the point of signing and the point of coming to an agreement.” — Despite his trust in the team and its principal, Fred Vasseur, Sainz was blindsided by the news: “I never felt suspicious, I always felt like they were just busy with something else and I never felt like it was not going to happen because every feedback I was getting was, 'we're gonna continue for sure, this was just gonna take a couple of hours to agree to the economics side of things and the two or three things we need to agree on, on your future contract, but it's going to be an easy contract and we will do it very quickly.'” “And suddenly in the middle of January, end of January, I receive a phone call and they suddenly tell me the news. I heard from a friend that called me, and I was completely shocked. I went from believing I was going to be in Ferrari for a while, still more, to suddenly now I'm out of Ferrari. Lewis is replacing me. What am I going to do now?” — Despite the setback, Sainz remained resilient, finishing fifth in the drivers' standings, XX points behind his former team-mate: “It never occurred to me that that could happen. It was a bit shocking. It took me a good week to accept it and to assimilate it. You never get too much of a reaction from me, I think I’m quite level-headed in that sense, but that gave me a bit of a kick… and I think it made me a better athlete, a better driver.” #scuderiaferrari 🇮🇹 #carlossainz 🇪🇸 VIA: [motorsport]  XXX engagements  **Related Topics** [lewis hamilton](/topic/lewis-hamilton) [axe](/topic/axe) [carlos sainz](/topic/carlos-sainz) [formula 1](/topic/formula-1) [$race](/topic/$race) [stocks consumer cyclical](/topic/stocks-consumer-cyclical) [Post Link](https://x.com/ThisIsFormu1a1/status/1947492788813324705)
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Carlos Sainz “completely shocked” after learning Ferrari axe from friend:
— Carlos Sainz recounted his surprise upon receiving a call in January 2024, confirming his replacement by Lewis Hamilton at Ferrari. Now with Williams, Sainz reflected on the unexpected news during the High Performance podcast:
“I think it was around end of January or February. I was in the middle of my training preparation for the 2024 season. I was hopeful that the Ferrari was going to be a competitive car and I had done everything in December and January obviously to prepare myself for that season.”
“Contract negotiations with Ferrari were a bit stalled in a weird way because we were talking since October to renew my contract and they kept postponing the point of signing and the point of coming to an agreement.”
— Despite his trust in the team and its principal, Fred Vasseur, Sainz was blindsided by the news:
“I never felt suspicious, I always felt like they were just busy with something else and I never felt like it was not going to happen because every feedback I was getting was, 'we're gonna continue for sure, this was just gonna take a couple of hours to agree to the economics side of things and the two or three things we need to agree on, on your future contract, but it's going to be an easy contract and we will do it very quickly.'”
“And suddenly in the middle of January, end of January, I receive a phone call and they suddenly tell me the news. I heard from a friend that called me, and I was completely shocked. I went from believing I was going to be in Ferrari for a while, still more, to suddenly now I'm out of Ferrari. Lewis is replacing me. What am I going to do now?”
— Despite the setback, Sainz remained resilient, finishing fifth in the drivers' standings, XX points behind his former team-mate:
“It never occurred to me that that could happen. It was a bit shocking. It took me a good week to accept it and to assimilate it. You never get too much of a reaction from me, I think I’m quite level-headed in that sense, but that gave me a bit of a kick… and I think it made me a better athlete, a better driver.”
#scuderiaferrari 🇮🇹 #carlossainz 🇪🇸
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