Chip off the old block revving towards motoring future in F1

As a rallying legend, Carlos Sainz knows a couple of things about motorsport. Watching his son in the sprawling karting centre he owns, it soon became apparent that the boy was doing more than messing about.

A decade or so later, Carlos Sainz Jnr is aiming to make it to Formula One as part of the Red Bull Junior Team. The Carlin driver has looked impressive in his second attempt at the Macau Grand Prix this week, starting from fifth place on the grid for today's qualifying race.

He's not the only relative of a famous driver here in Macau: Lucas Auer is the nephew of former F1 driver Gerhard Berger, while Tom Blomqvist's father is another rally legend, Swede Stig. And in F1 throughout the years there have been many other examples: Graham and Damon Hill, Gilles and Jacques Villeneuve, Nelson Piquet and Nelson Jnr, Keke and Nico Rosberg and Ayrton and Bruno Senna to name a few.

So can driving talent really be passed through the genes? Or does the role model aspect and access to facilities make the difference for the second generation? Sainz Snr thinks nature and nurture both play a role.

"For sure [Carlos Jnr] has grown up with motorsport around him all his life and I think all that has helped him, but at the end either you have certain natural talent or you cannot do it," said the Spaniard. "It looks like he's well talented, but he's still very young and it's a long way to go.

"I have an indoor karting back home in Madrid - at the beginning it was more or less playing for him, then it looked like he had some good natural talent. From there he start to race in karting and immediately he was doing quite good and it was then I said, 'Okay let's help him a little bit more,' and from there he took it more and more seriously."