Carlos Sainz was involved in the Thursday press conference at the red Bull ring in Austria where he told journalists that although he planned to remain with the Red Bull Racing family next season, he wasn't looking to contest a fourth season at the Scuderia Toro Rosso team.

Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost, took part in the Friday press conference when he was asked about future plans for the young Spaniard, he was quite adamant in his answer.

He stated that Carlos can say what he wants, but at the end of the day, the decision is not his to make…

“First of all, this is not a decision of Carlos Sainz. He has a Red Bull contract and Red Bull decides what he will do in the future and I'm a little bit confused about this discussion at this stage of the year because Red Bull has paid and financed the complete career of Carlos Sainz,” Tost told journalists.

“They paid his Formula BMW season, Formula Renault, then Formula Three, GP3, 3.5 litre World Series and three years in Formula Three and why Red Bull should give him away to any other opponent when they educated him to quite a high level, and I think sometimes reality – also in Formula One – should play an important game and once more, it's a decision of Red Bull.”