Carlos Sainz Snr is one tough son of a gun. 60 years old and still racing like he is in his twenties.
If it wasn’t for terminal damage to his machine Carlos Sainz Snr, 60, would have righted his car and continued the Dakar Rally despite a terrifying flip that caused spinal fractures.
The father of Ferrari driver Carlos Jnr has issued an update on his condition, having been forced to abandon the extreme Saudi Arabia event on Stage 9. Sainz’s 2023 Dakar was action-packed. The rally icon was victorious on Stage 1, suffered a costly mechanical failure on Stage 3, ripped a tyre off his Audi in a Stage 6 incident and had victory retroactively whisked away after being caught speeding on Stage 8.
But the drama ramped up again on Stage 9, when the double Dakar winner and co-driver Lucas Cruz were chasing lost time. Soaring into the air after speeding over a sharp lip, they front-end nosedived into the dune, shunting hard before flipping onto the roof. The Spanish pairing scrambled onto the sand and immediately rolled their stricken Audi back onto four wheels. Sainz was forced into an air ambulance bound for Riyadh complaining of chest pains – only to order the helicopter to turn back so he could rejoin Cruz at the crash site!“On my return to Madrid from the Dakar Rally, the back pain I suffered after the incident of this year’s event persisted longer than usual,” Sainz Snr wrote on social media.
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