Carlos Sainz is a Spanish racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Scuderia Ferrari. He is the son of Carlos Sainz Sr., a double World Rally Champion.

   In 2012, Sainz raced in the British and European Formula 3 championships for Carlin.He raced for DAMS in the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 season, winning the championship before moving to F1 with Toro Rosso.

    Sainz joined Renault for the 2017 and 2018 seasons.

   Sainz moved to McLaren for the 2019 season, while at the same time ending his contract with Red Bull Racing.

   At the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix Sainz took his maiden Formula One podium finish with third.

   Sainz moved to Ferrari at the end of the 2020 season. At the 2022 British Grand Prix, Sainz took his maiden Formula One pole position and career win. He achieved his second Formula One win at the 2023 Singapore Grand Prix, after starting on pole position for the fifth time in his career. He is due to leave Ferrari at the end of 2024 to make way for Lewis Hamilton.

   Sainz joined Scuderia Ferrari on a two-year contract from the 2021 season partnering Charles Leclerc and replacing Sebastian Vettel.

    He qualified and finished in eighth place at the Bahrain Grand Prix, his first race for the team. He started eleventh at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix but progressed to fifth place by the end of the race.

     He failed to score points at the Portuguese Grand Prix despite starting fifth, stating "we got it wrong with strategy".

     He took his third career podium and first with Ferrari at the Monaco Grand Prix, where he benefited from Leclerc's failure to start and a pit stop issue for Valtteri Bottas to finish second.

    Tyre wear issues meant neither Ferrari driver scored points at the French Grand Prix. Sainz recovered from a twelfth-place start at the Styrian Grand Prix to finish sixth. A collision with George Russell on the first lap of sprint qualifying at the British Grand Prix dropped Sainz to the back of the field, but he recovered places in sprint qualifying and in the race to finish sixth.