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The son of the Spanish champion is going fast into F1 and landed, at his 15 years of age, in the program of young promises of the team, like Vettel and Alguersuari, and will race next year in Formula BMW

October 6, 2009

“Of the guys who come from behind in karting, I think the best is Carlitos Sainz, and maybe soon he can get his chance" Words of Fernando Alonso, who has raced alongside the son of the Spanish rally champion and has seen a special thing on him. And the opportunity will soon become official. AS has learned from sources close to the team, he has been signed over the next five years as a driver of the Red Bull Junior Team program. And, to begin his development in the cars, will compete in 2010 in Formula BMW.

A few days ago Sainz Jr. was the brightest in the selection process of that competition that coincide with some of the races of the F1. And, although he arrived without experience in those cars, he has been able to do private tests on other types of cars. In karting he has been runner-up in Europe and Asia-Pacific champion, regardless of being struggling to win the National. He has ways, but now he must take the right steps if he wants to be, with 19 or 20 years in Formula 1, as has Jaime Alguersuari, who also comes from this quarry.

Jul 12 2009

Carlos Sainz, son of the former world rally champion, has been proclaimed in Zuera (Zaragoza) runner-up of European karting, behind the Dutch Nick de Vries.

The Dutchman Nick de Vries has been proclaimed today European champion of KF3 in the Circuit of Zuera beating the Spaniards Carlos Sáinz and Gerard Barrabeig, who had dominated the qualifiers of the last two days. Sáinz and Barrabeig could not finish their excellent performance in this weekend leaving the final protagonism to the new champion of Europe in KF3, that returns to repeat victory in Zuera after taking the VSK celebrated last year in the same track.

The victory of Nick de Vries has come as no surprise to viewers who have come to Zuera defying the more than forty degrees of temperature that was on the track, as he had dominated the final from start to finish, surpassing in more than four seconds to Sáinz. The Dutchman has thus completed his journey in Aragon lands after having spent more than two weeks rolling in the circuit of Zuera to prepare in detail this Championship that has come to conquer.

Despite the victory of the Dutch driver, the results of the Spanish reconfirmed the good health of the quarry of the Spanish motorsport. To the second position of Sáinz, who could not keep pace with the winner but did maintain a safe enough distance from his pursuer, joined Adrián del Río's fourth and Victor Colomé's seventh.

Carlos Sainz Jr. (Madrid, 1994) has established himself in 2009 as one of the Spanish drivers with the best track record in karting, and also has said goodbye to the specialty, as next year will make the leap to Formula BMW. Readers have chosen him as the new AS Promise Award.

29 Nov 2009

Are you excited about achieving the AS Promise Award?

It gives me tremendous joy, but at the same time these things surprise me. In 2008 it was Jaime Alguersuari, and sometimes I think giving it to me now, at 15, is a little hasty. In a way it is a pressure, but I appreciate the trust and I can assure that I will not fail you.

What taste did your last season in kart left you with?

It has been a positive year, in which we have taken the definitive step in this category. We have achieved all the goals we had set ourselves, which were to be on top internationally. I have learned a lot and, although everything will be different from now on, karting teaches you a lot about racing, tension or reflexes.

How have the first kilometers running the Formula BMW been?

Very good, and I am very happy. The team is great, and they have helped me a lot, as did those responsible from Red Bull. Now the collective trials are left, with the whole grid, where you will see who will be ahead. But in the first tests our team has been the strongest.

Was it a dream to have signed five years with Red Bull, as did Vettel or Alguersuari to get to Formula 1?

I am very grateful for the trust they show when I am so young, and I hope not to disappoint them.

Thinking about Formula 1 motivates me, but you have to go step by step, be humble and keep learning. I will not waste these five years, but nobody thinks that Vettel or Alguersuari are there just for his contract with Red Bull, they are very good.

At least you're already on the right track ...

I'm already in the formulas and I see it a little better. Formula 1 is a dream, but I don’t want to get obsessed about it. I think I have three or four categories to reach there, and for the moment what matters is next year. It will be my first time with a formula and it's almost like starting from scratch in karting. Nobody has managed to win the BMW in the first year, because it is the most disputed category for drivers from fifteen to seventeen years of age. I will be the youngest, but if I am there it is because I want to go and win.

Does your career affect your daily life?

The Catalan gave him the prize promise: "This guy sure will cause my retirement".

4 December 2009

“That look, those deep eyes of concentration when he goes in his kart, remind me of his father's determination."Juanjo Lacalle, manager and close friend of Carlos Sainz sums up with these words the shine that flashes Carlitos, the boy of 15 years who yesterday received the AS Promise Award.

An award that had a luxury ambassador, Pedro de la Rosa, who also glossed the virtues of this star of karting, runner-up of Europe in 2009: "I’ll only say two things, that I am struggling to races again and this guy is very good and he is going to make me retire very soon. I would not give the prize to someone who was not worth it. He is not the son of, as some may think, he is a very talented driver and can go very far”. Before the gala, Carlitos was a bundle of nerves. Comes from making some great times in his first training with Formula BMW, where he will compete next year.

He has a contract with Red Bull for the next five years and is on his way to glory. But he goes step by step and downplays those times in his first steps in single-seater: "I am learning, I am learning, eh". With the voice in the process of change and almost the height of his father, the promising Madrid driver was delirious with the presence of his football idol Cristiano Ronaldo. Backstage he was able to talk to him and Cristiano said: "Are you nervous? Do not worry, you'll get used to it."

03/02/2008

BERGHEIM (GERMANY) .- The son of Spanish rider Carlos Sainz, a two-time world champion in rallies, will have a luxury sponsor to land in motorsport: no one less than Formula One record man, seven-time world champion, Michael Schumacher, who has hired him as a driver for his new team.

It will not be for Formula 1 nor for the WRC, but for karting. Carlos Sainz (son) will be one of the drivers of the KSM team, founded by 'Schumi' to compete in the next season of the German karting championship. The first race will be on February 17 in Kerpen, the German's hometown.

At the presentation of the brand new team, held last Saturday, attended Carlos Sainz father. "I came expressly from Spain not only to see the presentation of my son, but also to congratulate Michael for the step he took with his partners," said the rally driver, for many years a friend of Schumacher.

The acronym KSM of the new team corresponds to the initials of the three proprietary partners: Schumacher, Peter Kaiser and Thomas Muchow.

Schumacher himself explained his motivation to break into the karting championship with a team of his own, remembering that he started in that category: "Since I was a child I imagined that I would one day go to work in the karting championship, they were times when I did not even dream of Formula 1."

"I started in this category and it was the basis of my subsequent success, I absolutely owe everything that I achieved in motor racing and I never managed to get away from it all.”