The 25-year-old Carlos Sainz is one of a growing number of second generation motor racing stars to have come to the fore in Formula 1 in their own right, joining the likes of Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve, Nico Rosberg, Max Verstappen and Mick Schumacher in seeking to make their own mark in an arena where their fathers had already shone bright in the past. Carlos Sainz Senior had won two World Rally championships by the time that Carlos Junior was born on 1 September 1994 in Madrid, Spain. Still revered as one of WRC's all-time towering talents, the elder Sainz would continue to compete in the series through to 2005 before moving on to become a success in the iconic Dakar Rally. At the...
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