Carlos Sainz Jr. says he can sympathise with Mick Schumacher over the heightened media attention and expectations through hav🧔ing a famous racing father, but believes the Ferrari youngster ♒is “in a good place right now.”

The son of seven-time F1 world champion Michael Schumacher, Mick enjoyed his maiden F1 test earlier this month with Ferrari in Bahrain. The German driver is racing in Formula ⛎2 this season, and is part of Ferrari’s young driv🧔er academy.

Schumacher faced significant media interest over the Bahrain weekend, with McLaren F1 driver Sainz – hiꦓmself the son of a two-time world rally champion – sympathising with ♔the pressure that comes with having a notable surname in motorsport.

“Especially when I was a kid, when I was go-kar♑ting, I felt that a lot of people were looking at me and at my results and the way I was going. A lot of kids and racing drivers were focusing a bit on me because being th꧑e son of [Sainz],” he explained.

“But it’s something that I got used to, although at the time it was tough. Then I just tried to take the positives from it and🌟 having a double world champion as a father I think it only made me a better driver today.

“I t𒈔hink [Mick] is getting a lot of attention th♌ese last few weeks because of the F1 test and that’s why I feel for him.

“But sometimes media attention is also not bad. I think he’s in a goo🏅d place right now.”

Sainz expanded on the attention he faced in🐻 karting, explaining how he decided to change his on-track approach after feeling he had a target on his back because of his family.

“Kids are sometimes a bit mean and you want to beat that guy, ‘I want to beat the son of Carlos Sainz more tꦕhan any other maybe because his father is watching or beca🐻use more people are watching,’” he said.

“So when I was a kid that was definitely a thing I didn’t like. My dad told me ‘you either bite or you get beaten’. When he told me that, I realised I ♛had to start biting a bit more,ꦑ or I will get beaten too often.

“Suddenly I started being a bit more aggressive and started earning a bit more respect. I didn💛’t realise but I was being a bit too nice, too friendly with everyone in wanting to get everyone’s approval and then I started being a bit more aggressive and it was better, definitely."