Sainz once told a story of how his father came home one day to see his two-year-old son doing Scandinavian flicks in a battery-powered toy car.Īnd later, as a young teenager, he followed his father to an ice-driving experience in Porsches and was getting close to his times after several laps of the course – only for Carlos Sr to then declare they’d do the course in reverse. “I’m just the first one to jump in and try and be as fast or faster than him.”
I love everything that has a steering wheel and two pedals. And I say motorsport because I also loved rallying, I loved driving on ice. “I guess he transmits to me very well that passion for motorsport. “You can imagine that you must like a lot racing, and you must like a lot rallying or the Dakar rally, to keep risking your life – with everything you’ve done in life and still at 60 years of age, you still go to the Dakar and try and win it, no? “That is what is keeping him also racing at nearly the age of 60. “He’s always told me that he’s enjoyed racing a lot in his career,” says Sainz of his 59-year-old, two-time World Rally champion father who is still so competitive he won last year’s Dakar Rally. Underpinning all of that is simply that they love to drive. In the case of the Sainz, father and son are two of a kind: talented and hard-working men, who are likeable characters, and who are very, very good at making relationships because they never underestimate someone’s value.
Being his father’s son always gave him a fighting chance of reflecting his best attributes as well.īut the contrasting fortunes of the litter of second (and third!) generation drivers over the last few decades shows that the apple doesn’t always fall so close to the tree. Sharing a name was always going to tie Carlos to… Carlos. Where he so closely mirrors his father is very much as the rounded racing professional. That’s probably the laid-back side of Sainz away from racing. Which actually is a bit more similar to my mum’s than to him!” “Obviously as I grew older, I also have my own character. “Inevitably, I’m going to tend to have a philosophy of racing and a philosophy of life, relatively similar to him.
“It’s inevitable that I’m gonna end up being a very similar kind of driver and character to my dad because we spend so much time together in my racing career, and I’ve been so long with him and he’s been my mentor and my advisor all my career,” Sainz says when asked by The Race about their shared characteristics on-track and off it.Īug 16 : What to expect from Ferrari's upcoming 2021 upgrades Perhaps none of that should be particularly surprising for the son of a rally legend and, to this day, the consummate motorsport professional. Sainz’s wet-weather prowess and feel in low-grip conditions is extraordinary at times and that makes him a great contender to pull something special out the bag when things get tricky. But his personality is the sum of those parts (and more). OK, we’re cheating and classing this as one thing, when it’s really a mix of his intelligence, work ethic, love of driving and affability.
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