As a driver, it’s very important to feel at home and feel that the team wants you. I’ve always felt at McLaren it was pretty much love at first sight since we started talking. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
When I jumped in a go-kart at three or four, with my friends, I was super fast without anyone really teaching me. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
When there’s a rule that you can use only three engines for the whole season, and you are a team that is not worried about 2018, you are worried about being world champions in 2020, you need to make progress. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
My Dad has given me a lot of advice, but this advice comes especially from the attitude point of view. He’s never told me how to drive a car, how to do a corner, nothing like that. He believe this comes from the talent. You are born with it or you are not born with it. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
Having two teams with the same engine and being used to being really close to each other which is the case with Red Bull and Toro Rosso, I think we can do a big step forward if we work together and there’s a good relationship between the teams. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
Everyone on the grid gets nervous before a Formula 1 race. It’s just how you manage it. It’s impossible not to be a bit nervous before a Formula 1 start or even before a World Series start. You have nerves. The thing is, you know how to control them. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
I had no idea at two or three years of age that my dad was a rally driver and he was doing doughnuts around the world. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
Politics is something that is bigger than many people would think and you just need to learn how to deal with them and how to accept it and how to treat them. I think that from when you are 10 years old and you look at F1 and don’t realise it’s there and then it is. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
There is clearly this gene inside me or this thing inside me that I’ve always had in my blood. I don’t know, but since very little I’ve always wanted to be in racing cars, and that was without knowing who my dad was and what he was doing for a living. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
You can imagine the long process and what you need to do as a driver to extract the maximum out of the car, what you need to do as a driver talking to the team about what you need, but what also the team can do for you to make that happen. Carlos Sainz Jr. Read Quote
