Williams ambassador Jenson Button has revealed that the team are in the process of “downloading” Carlos Sainz’s knowledge and expertise from his stints at Ferrari and McLaren. It comes just weeks after it emerged that Ferrari have gone to extreme lengths to ‘erase’ Lewis Hamilton’s memory of his time at Mercedes.

Spanish driver Carlos Sainz has become a director at Formula One’s Grand Prix Drivers’ Association, which acts as a union for the grid’s stars

Carlos Sainz has replaced retired four-times Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), the trade union of F1 drivers announced on Sunday.