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Carlos Sainz

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Movies: 7Series: 4

TMDB ID: 2888425

IMDb ID: nm2298126

Known for: Acting

Born: April 12, 1962

Age: 63

Place of birth: Madrid, Spain

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1978 - 2025

Years active: 48

Average TMDB rating: 7.69

Wikidata: Q211204

Also known as

Carlos Sainz Sr.

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Biography

Carlos Sainz Cenamor (born 12 April 1962) is a Spanish rally driver. He won the World Rally Championship drivers' title with Toyota in 1990 and 1992, and finished runner-up four times. Constructors' world champions to have benefited from Sainz are Subaru (1995), Toyota (1999) and Citroën (2003, 2004 and 2005). In the 2018 season, he was one of the official drivers of the Team Peugeot Total. He received the Princess of Asturias Sports Award in 2020. Sainz founded the Acciona | Sainz XE Team to join Extreme E and competed in the first two seasons alongside Laia Sanz. Nicknamed El Matador, Sainz previously held the WRC record for most career starts until Finnish co-driver Miikka Anttila broke the record. He was also the first non-Nordic driver to win the 1000 Lakes Rally in Finland. He came close to repeating the feat at the Swedish Rally, finishing second four times and third twice. Alongside his WRC successes, he has won the Dakar Rally (2010, 2018, 2020, 2024), the Race of Champions (1997) and the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship (1990). His co-drivers were Antonio Boto, Luis Moya, Marc Martí, and Lucas Cruz. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carlos Sainz Sr., licensed under CC-BY-SA