F1 driver Carlos Sainz Jr. is all of us after New Year’s Day

Williams’ new F1 driver had to make some tough decisions for breakfast

Lewis Hamilton is not the only big-name Formula 1 driver with a new home for the 2025 season.

After all, Hamilton replaced Carlos Sainz Jr. at Ferrari, making the Spanish driver and Grand Prix winner the biggest free agent on the grid a season ago. After months of speculation, Williams announced last summer they had secured Sainz’s services for the 2025 season and beyond, pairing him with Alexander Albon.

As Ferrari continues to roll out Hamilton in Maranello, Williams shared a video on Monday of Sainz’s first full day at their factory in Grove. That video included Sainz flashing his Williams ID badge, and the driver greeting various members of the team.

It also included a moment that many of us might identify with, when Sainz outlined how he saw some bacon and sausage wraps in the canteen and had to “run away” as he was training:

“I saw the bacon and sausage wraps, I went to them and then I reminded myself I was training, and I had to run away,” said Sainz.

Look, at this point in January many of us are still struggling with those New Year’s Day resolutions. I mean, Apple has bombarded us here in the United States with a commercial about “Quitter’s Day” and how people often give up on their resolutions by the second Friday in January. So if you are still sticking to those resolutions by now — and running away from those bacon and sausage wraps like Sainz — you should be proud of what you have accomplished.

It might not get you ready for handling multiple G-forces into a turn at Monza, or the hairpin turn in Monaco, like Sainz needs to be ready for, but it is a start.