The next year aged seven, he went on to win his first championship in dominant fashion taking 12 podium finishes. This triumph coincided with the opening of a new indoor karting venue Teamkarting just 400yds from his home. One of their first customers he quickly became a regular visitor and struck up a relationship with the owners, and the publicity helped to promote their successful launch. This relationship is still going from strength to strength with Sandro calling his mentor and friend Matty Street his 'Big Bro'.

Aged eight and moving up from bambino karts to Honda cadets he enjoyed success at various club championship, and also raced in two Kartmasters Grand Prix held at the prestigious Paul Fletcher International circuit where he also raced in the 200cc Extreme class, racking up four podium finishes. Sandro ended his three years of cadet racing on a tight budget in the very competetive Northern Kart Federation series at different circuits around the country, starting every final in the top ten.

Off track he uses his racing to raise autism awareness with his Able Racing project for which he has received two awards, the Anna Kennedy OBE Autism Hero Award, and the Downforce National Autism Society award. In 2017 he was also recipient of a custom painted helmet from Racing with Autism based in Canada, who he assisted on their UK tour. With his partners at Teamkarting, JPC Community Farm, and Teesside Karting he has been involved with numerous disability friendly, inclusive karting sessions, and has inspired and helped numerous others to get started in karting, many of whom are also on the autism spectrum. Inspired by Austin Riley of Racing with Autism, Sandro has also spoken at primary schools with his own autism presentation

and as a result he was invited to speak at an autism conference with an audience of 120 guests including teachers and professionals.

In karting, he is now racing in Junior Rotax and Junior Prokart classes in both sprint and team endurance racing, and also signed with the X-Kart Team. He has recently raced a 24hr race with the TeamBRIT Racing with autism kart team. He also does simulator racing as a member of the eTeamBRIT esports team, and competed online in the Daytona 24hr as part of Racing with Autism international drivers Austin Riley (Radical), Armani Williams (NASCAR), and TeamBRIT star driver Bobby Trundley.

Sandros' success both on and off the track have lead to numerous appearances in the press, radio and TV interviews, (links can be found here (MEDIA page). Now aged 14 Sandro has just had his first taste of a racecar and is putting his blood, sweat, and gears into his plan to race in a junior championship. You can keep up with Sandro#19's progress here and also on social media via.........Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.