After eight years, 147 F1 races and 10 podiums, Carlos Sainz Jr. has made a name for himself, shaking off many of the “the son of Carlos Sainz” references
“You’re not Carlos Sainz. You’re the son of, the son of, the son of. They say, ‘The son of Carlos Sainz has done a mistake. He’s not good. He’s just there because of his father.’”
“Although rallies were huge in Spain back then because of my dad, I fell in love with Formula One, and I told my dad that I wanted to be a Formula One driver.”Toward the end of the 2013 season, Sainz Jr. was competing in the GP3 circuit, and while he had success, he says he needed to win the following campaign if he wanted any chance to make it to Formula One. “It was probably my last chance to actually make it to Formula One,” he says.
“I actually saw that I could do a lot more. I thought I was doing a lot, but then I realized it actually is not that much. If this is my passion and this is my work, I can actually do a lot more.”A decade after taking his first steps in go-karts, Sainz Jr. made his F1 debut in 2015. But he did more than just start—he finished ninth in his very first race, taking home points from Melbourne for Toro Rosso . And the rest was history.
“There’s so many other factors that come into play inside the sport. There’s the machinery, there’s so many people involved in the sport, there’s an hour-and-a-half-long race, pit stops, strategy calls. It’s a very complex sport to actually nail everything,” Sainz Jr. says. “And you as an athlete might be doing a great job, and then suddenly, there’s one day that you have a puncture and you DNF, and you don’t finish the race and it’s a zero and you were doing a great job.
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