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Biography
Carlos Sainz Cenamor 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. 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.
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Awards & recognition
- Princess of Asturias Award — Sports · 2020
- FIA Hall of Fame · 2018
- Rally Hall of Fame · 2012
- Medal of youth, sports and community involvement · 2008
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Sports Merit · 2001
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- Olympic Order · 1997
- Gold Medal of the Royal Order of Sports Merit · 1994
