Purple Bull are speaking to Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz about signing for 2025 however Audi have provided him way more, the staff’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko stated on Thursday.

Sainz, 29, should go away Ferrari on the finish of the season to make method for Mercedes’ seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton.

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The Spaniard, race winner in Australia final month, advised reporters on the Chinese language Grand Prix on Thursday that every one his greatest choices remained open and it will take a while to achieve a choice.

Sainz has been linked to Purple Bull as doable teammate for triple world champion Max Verstappen, recreating their 2015-16 Toro Rosso lineup, if Mexican Sergio Perez doesn’t have his contract renewed.

Marko advised Austria’s Kleine Zeitung newspaper that Sainz was of curiosity.

“We’re speaking to him, he is having his strongest season in System One,” the Austrian stated. “However he has a really profitable provide from Audi that we won’t match or beat.”

Audi are coming into System One in 2026 when Swiss-based Sauber, thus far and not using a level in 4 races this season, develop into the German producer’s manufacturing unit staff.

Marko stated the skilled Perez was additionally having his greatest season since becoming a member of them in 2021.

“If he maintains these performances like these in qualifying in Japan, then he’s definitely the most suitable choice for 2025 at Purple Bull,” he added.

“He’s a employee for the staff and has now additionally realised that the radically totally different path he took final 12 months with set-up was the improper one. Now the automotive is nearer to Max’s set-up and that helps him.”

Australian Daniel Ricciardo has additionally been within the body for a doable return to the principle Purple Bull staff however has but to say himself on the renamed RB, the outfit beforehand often called AlphaTauri and Toro Rosso.

Marko stated that thus far Yuki Tsunoda had Ricciardo “underneath management.”

“The problem for him [Ricciardo] was that he clearly needed to be sooner than Yuki if he wished to have any hope of successful the seat at Purple Bull. That hasn’t been the case thus far, even when, as I stated, it was shut. We’ll see how this develops,” he stated.