Carlos Sainz Jr. believes not over-reacting to a difficult run of results in the early grands prix of 2019 has been key to his rise up Formula 1’s midfield pecking order. Sainz Jr. failed to finish after his McLaren MCL34 was stranded by an MGU-K failure in Australia, while early clashes put paid to his races in Bahrain and China. It left Sainz Jr. without a point from the opening trio of events but since then he has failed to reach the top 10 just once, and has vaulted up the standings. Successive fifth-place finishes prior to the summer break cemented Sainz Jr.’s status as ‘best of the rest’ and he holds P7 overall, 27 points clear of next opponent Kimi Raikkonen,...
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