F1 Driver Carlos Sainz Reacts to Childhood Photos, Friendship with Lando Norris & 4 Grand Prix Wins — Transcript

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1. 0:00When I put a helmet on,
2. 0:03I want to destroy Lando and I want
3. 0:06to beat him and I want to
4. 0:08beat Alex, beat
5. 0:09Charles, beat all of them.
6. 0:13I see things at 200 miles an hour at
7. 0:15quite slow. I know in an F1 car I could
8. 0:17text and drive.
9. 0:19Hi, I'm Carlos Sainz and this is my life
10. 0:21in pictures.
11. 0:24Well, this is
12. 0:25probably one of my first
13. 0:27ever times in a in a go-kart. I'm
14. 0:30probably 3 4 years old maximum and I
15. 0:32remember probably being the highlight of
16. 0:34the every week. We would go on Sunday to
17. 0:36drive and
18. 0:38it would just make me so happy.
19. 0:40And yeah, just great memories from it. I
20. 0:42don't think I knew how to drive. I do
21. 0:44believe in talent and I believe in
22. 0:47genes.
23. 0:48>> Carlos Sainz's WRC career spanned 18
24. 0:51years and in those 18 years, there is no
25. 0:54doubt that he deserved his nickname King
26. 0:56Carlos.
27. 0:57>> For whatever reason I learned how to do
28. 0:58donuts and I learned how to do drifts.
29. 1:02And I was 2 years old. It's impossible
30. 1:04my dad taught me because he was never at
31. 1:06home.
32. 1:07Um and I remember there's a video at
33. 1:09home my dad coming back from a rally and
34. 1:11suddenly seeing me do that by myself and
35. 1:13him going like, "Who Who's taught him
36. 1:16this?" I think that must be a cool cool
37. 1:17thing as a dad.
38. 1:20That's actually my first podium in um
39. 1:23McLaren. This was uh 2019. It came the
40. 1:26day that I expected it the least because
41. 1:30I was starting last this race. The The
42. 1:31day before I couldn't even contest in
43. 1:33qualifying. I just thought I'm I'm
44. 1:35starting last. If I can get into the top
45. 1:3710, that would be a great comeback.
46. 1:40But I would never expect it to to go all
47. 1:42the way from last to third.
48. 1:45My best race of my career, a lot of over
49. 1:47good overtaking.
50. 1:49I had the mindset of nothing to lose.
51. 1:51This race taught me that I should often
52. 1:54apply that mindset more often. I think
53. 1:56that's one of the best feeling when know
54. 1:57you're doing a good race and have the
55. 1:59confidence to do overtaking at 200 mile
56. 2:02an hour and I think that's the kind of
57. 2:04flow state that every driver or every
58. 2:05every athlete you want to go into.
59. 2:08And you're chasing that flow state
60. 2:11as often as possible.
61. 2:15The speed for me is is not that
62. 2:17interesting because
63. 2:18I see things at 200 miles an hour
64. 2:20actually going on quite slow. We have
65. 2:22time to do things on our steering wheel.
66. 2:25Time to think about our racing, our
67. 2:27strategies. I know in an F1 car I could
68. 2:30text and drive. I know
69. 2:32like how much in control I am of the
70. 2:34situation. But uh
71. 2:36on the road, never text and drive and be
72. 2:39respectful to everyone around you.
73. 2:42Smooth Operator is something I started
74. 2:44singing on the radio once after a good
75. 2:47race in McLaren.
76. 2:48>> Do you think that was a
77. 2:50smooth operator?
78. 2:53>> [laughter]
79. 2:54>> Smooth
80. 2:56operator operator.
81. 2:58>> It's a song that for whatever reason had
82. 3:00been stuck on my head for that whole
83. 3:02weekend of that race.
84. 3:04And I was whistling it or and people
85. 3:06around me were like, "You're singing
86. 3:07Smooth Operator?" Yeah, I'm singing
87. 3:08smooth I don't know why. I had a really
88. 3:10good race, a good comeback again and I
89. 3:12sang Smooth Operator on the radio as a
90. 3:13joke to my engineers that have heard me
91. 3:15sing it all weekend. Fans loved it and I
92. 3:17just sing it only
93. 3:20when I've done something very special.
94. 3:21Whenever I have a really really really
95. 3:23good race, not a good race, it has to be
96. 3:25really really good, I will sing a Smooth
97. 3:27Operator on the radio.
98. 3:29Another good friend, Lando.
99. 3:31We had a lot of fun together when I was
100. 3:33driving in McLaren.
101. 3:35We again
102. 3:36formed our relationship of respect and
103. 3:39and also friendship. We we tend to have
104. 3:42a lot of fun like our sense of humor
105. 3:44match.
106. 3:50It's just scary.
107. 3:52EVER since we remain good friends and
108. 3:55we play a lot of golf together. We
109. 3:58we play paddles together. We do a lot of
110. 4:00plans together.
111. 4:01And I guess some is a guy that I really
112. 4:04respect. A guy that I enjoy spending my
113. 4:07time with and yeah, even if we are
114. 4:09rivals on track, we know we
115. 4:11we can also be good friends out of it.
116. 4:13>> He's got the bare golf score right now.
117. 4:14>> He's still catching up.
118. 4:15>> Lando Norris is the new world champion
119. 4:18and he's
120. 4:19>> I was happy for him to win that
121. 4:20championship. I think he's deserved it.
122. 4:23We are extremely competitive and when I
123. 4:24put a helmet on, I want to destroy Lando
124. 4:27and I want to
125. 4:29beat him and I want to
126. 4:31beat Alex, beat
127. 4:32Charles, beat all of them and
128. 4:35when I'm driving, I I
129. 4:37I don't see Lando in front of me or I
130. 4:38don't see I just see a Ferrari or
131. 4:41McLaren and I just know I need to
132. 4:43overtake him.
133. 4:44But it is true that when you take off
134. 4:46the helmet, you can see things really in
135. 4:47relative, you know, not maybe with
136. 4:50the pressure of having the helmet on and
137. 4:52and racing for
138. 4:54racing to death like we we do.
139. 4:58In this picture, you see obviously me
140. 5:00just being
141. 5:02had surgery from appendicitis. I think
142. 5:04it was not so much the appendicitis
143. 5:06itself and having to miss a race.
144. 5:09I think it's more the moment that it
145. 5:10came in. I think it had just been
146. 5:13announced that
147. 5:15Lewis Hamilton would replace me in in
148. 5:16Ferrari. I had just done probably one of
149. 5:18my best season starts, finishing third
150. 5:22in Bahrain and
151. 5:24and driving really well all the
152. 5:25beginning of the year and suddenly, if
153. 5:27it wasn't enough during the winter with
154. 5:28those bad news, on top of that,
155. 5:31this appendicitis had to come and
156. 5:34and that made me miss a race, the
157. 5:36effects that that has in a championship
158. 5:37battle, I mean like
159. 5:40the world has been a bit against me the
160. 5:42last few months. The good thing is 10
161. 5:45days later,
162. 5:46this probably gives me the greed and
163. 5:48passion and the will to to come back
164. 5:50from this and
165. 5:52yeah, I came back with a win.
166. 5:53>> What a comeback. A Ferrari 1-2 headed by
167. 5:57Carlos Sainz.
168. 5:59>> That's the most proud I felt as an
169. 6:01athlete and as a human probably in my
170. 6:03life.
171. 6:05My dog's name is Piñón and he
172. 6:08he's a very very
173. 6:11active hyperactive dog. He He lives in
174. 6:14the countryside. So I he loves running
175. 6:17around hunting little birds, little
176. 6:19rabbits, or whatever he has in front of
177. 6:21him. He reminds me a bit of me because
178. 6:23I'm always running around.
179. 6:26I always need to be doing something. I
180. 6:28always need to be playing paddle, golf,
181. 6:29cycling.
182. 6:30And I think we have matching
183. 6:32personalities which in the end they say
184. 6:33you know that the dog in me and then
185. 6:35ends up always matching the
186. 6:37the owner and good hair, good beard.
187. 6:40Um
188. 6:42yeah, I'm very hyperactive. That's the
189. 6:43way I would summarize Piñón.
190. 6:45Is the real side of me probably the most
191. 6:47real is
192. 6:48in the end we all have our loved ones
193. 6:50and part of my loved ones is my dog for
194. 6:52sure.
195. 6:54This guy is Charles Leclerc, my
196. 6:58ex-teammate in Ferrari.
197. 7:00>> One and two, three.
198. 7:02>> Carlos Sainz leads home his teammate.
199. 7:04>> He definitely deserves that victory.
200. 7:06>> Four amazing years together in Ferrari
201. 7:08where we
202. 7:10had some great racing, some great
203. 7:11battles, but most importantly a lot of
204. 7:14good quality time together getting to
205. 7:16know each other. We were flying back
206. 7:18together from a race back into Monaco
207. 7:20and our plane had to had to be diverted.
208. 7:22Kind of okay to land,
209. 7:25but he said no way. Like if there's any
210. 7:27kind of 1% risk of the storm and and I
211. 7:30said to him, "If you say to the pilot we
212. 7:32divert, I drive the car home." He said,
213. 7:34"Okay, deal."
214. 7:36Little did I know when we landed that
215. 7:37the only car available was this van that
216. 7:39wouldn't go above 70 mile an hour.
217. 7:42>> I thought
218. 7:44he couldn't get anywhere else.
219. 7:46But
220. 7:52>> Look at you.
221. 7:53>> I don't think [laughter] anyone would
222. 7:54have expected two Ferrari Formula 1
223. 7:57drivers
224. 7:58driving this van.
225. 8:00With all our luggage in the back, it was
226. 8:03Honestly, you see the van from the
227. 8:05outside it was quite a funny funny
228. 8:06scenes.
229. 8:08It's just celebrating with my team, the
230. 8:10team that supported me along the way
231. 8:12through our Yeah, that
232. 8:14tricky start to the year. We were all
233. 8:16like, "Why is this all of these things
234. 8:17happening to us?" Like
235. 8:19we're doing things well. The car is
236. 8:20quick. I'm quick. I'm super fast with
237. 8:22this car. Since the result is
238. 8:25sometimes it's strategy, sometimes it's
239. 8:26bad luck, sometimes it's reliability,
240. 8:28sometimes was maybe my mistake, but it
241. 8:30was not clicking. And we were all like,
242. 8:33"But it will come."
243. 8:351 2 3 4 5 6 7 races and it still doesn't
244. 8:38come.
245. 8:39You start to feel the pressure, but
246. 8:40suddenly it came and when it came, it
247. 8:42came
248. 8:43in a more spectacular manner than than I
249. 8:46ever thought it would be. As long as you
250. 8:48believe in the fact that you're doing
251. 8:52everything in your power to make things
252. 8:54work, and you need to stay put. My
253. 8:55experience tells me that it eventually
254. 8:57ends up happening. Fortune in the end
255. 8:59favors the ones that work hard.
256. 9:04It's the second year in a row that I
257. 9:05attend
258. 9:07the premiere of the film festival. It's
259. 9:09a very
260. 9:10Yeah, honestly good moment.
261. 9:12I never knew how I was going to feel in
262. 9:14those environments, but
263. 9:16Pharrell always made me feel
264. 9:18super comfortable and
265. 9:20they just Yeah, received me with open
266. 9:22arms and with the rest of the
267. 9:24ambassadors, we just have a great time.
268. 9:27Different kind of suit, but a suit that
269. 9:28I like wearing, to be honest. A
270. 9:30combination between classic and modern
271. 9:32gentleman, but always gentleman, and I
272. 9:33think a suit
273. 9:35always fits well on a man. It's a bit of
274. 9:37a stigma
275. 9:38on on men that
276. 9:40maybe they don't talk too much about
277. 9:42skin care or her routine. You don't hear
278. 9:45many men talking about it. And I think
279. 9:47telling them with my close friends who's
280. 9:50doing it and you're like,
281. 9:52you've been hydrating your face or
282. 9:53you've been doing this and
283. 9:55and they look at you like, how do you
284. 9:57know? It's like, cuz you can tell. You
285. 9:59can tell who who takes a bit more care
286. 10:00of of of themselves, no? And
287. 10:03you do I think also. And I think
288. 10:06there is absolutely no no issue, no
289. 10:08problem with with that.