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Sainz: Everyone was cheering it was a great feeling

A familiar and famous name was back at the top level of Spanish motor sport on Saturday when Carlos Sainz qualified fifth for the unheralded Toro Rosso team at the Spanish Grand Prix. Sainz, 20, is the son of two-time world rally champion Carlos Sainz, and has until recently competed with the additional sobriquet of ‘junior'. In hot May sunshine at the Circuit de Catalunya, he cast that aside by outpacing not only his Toro Rosso teammate, Dutch teenager Max Verstappen, but also a clutch of far more experienced drivers in so-called ‘bigger' teams. 'Yes, it's something special,' he said with disarming honesty. 'Dreaming is free, no? A P5 tomorrow will be very difficult, but we'll...
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