Yumping.- Despite your young age, you have been dedicating yourself to karting for a long time. How did you start in this world?
Sandro García.- My father read the advertisement in a motor magazine about the 1st Challenger Repsol gas karting and quickly signed me up. I was selected along with twenty-one other children.
Y.- More than half of your life on kart circuits. When did you start competing?
S.G.- Although I have been a driver for a long time, I did not start competing until three years ago, in 2007.
And.- The Repsol Gas Karting Challenge opened the doors for you in this sport. What did this opportunity mean to you?
S.G.- Repsol and the people who directed this project, Mr. Jesús Salmón and Mrs. Teresa Paraja, gave me the opportunity to get on a kart competition and get started in this wonderful sport, which I didn't know about, and be able to compete against twenty-one children from different communities.
Y.- What is the world of competition like? Is there a lot of rivalry in karting?
S.G.- For me it is the greatest thing in my life. As for whether there is rivalry on the track, yes, there is a lot, but once the checkered flag comes down and the race ends, we only think about playing together and we don't usually talk about what happened on the track.
And.- The transition from the Alevín to Cadet category is an important point in your career, as it means not only that you are growing but that you are acquiring more experience...
S.G.- Like everything in life, it is experience that helps you correct mistakes and thus be able to improve your level. The change of category is another challenge in my learning, apart from the fact that we use more powerful engines that are another incentive.
Y.- Your father is very familiar with this world, since he was also a rally driver in his day and now he has become your manager. What is it like working with your father?
S.G.- My father is passionate about motor sports. He likes it especially in races that he is focused. He tells me all the adjustments he makes to the kart so that I can learn its reactions. He is always motivating me and his only goal is for me to have a good time competing.
Y.- You already you are preparing for the new season, in fact you just took a test. How have you felt on the new circuit?
S.G.- The test we did in Campillos with Geruco Motor Sport under the orders of the Canarian technician D. Juan Nieves was a very positive and exciting experience, and I would like my future to be linked to them. Regarding the next 2011 season I want to do the Spanish championship, the Canarian regional championship and the championship of another autonomous community. Everything depends on being able to find a sponsor to make this project possible, which today is only a big dream.
Y.- How can you combine school with the world of competition?
S.G.- At the moment I'm doing very well. If it weren't like that my parents wouldn't let me compete.
Y.- Who is your biggest idol?
S.G.- Fernando Alonso, Jaime Alguersuari, Pedro de la Rosa, Dani Clos and many other young drivers who are standing out in other categories.
And.- What hobbies do you have apart from driving?
S.G.- I really like tennis, soccer and video game consoles.
Y.- You will be the envy of your friends off the track. Has karting given you new friends?
S.G.- Sometimes they come to see me at the track where I train and after finishing we rent some karts and have some races. The friends that I have met thanks to karting are the drivers, their fathers and mothers, the mechanics, the technicians of the Canary Islands motorsports federation and the people who work and attend to the circuits where I compete and train
And.- How do you see yourself in ten years?
S.G.- I don't know how I will look but I do know how I would like to see myself and it would be competing at the highest level.
And.- Your next goal?
S.G.- My closest goal is to try to finish as high as possible in the Canarian regional championship, in which I currently occupy third place with one race left and then try to get a sponsor to help me to face my ambitious 2011 sports project with guarantees, and thus be able to continue evolving in my short sports career.
