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My 2018 was better than points tally suggests - Carlos Sainz Jr.

Carlos Sainz Jr. has asserted that his final points total is not reflective of the strong performances he put in during the 2018 Formula 1 season. Sainz Jr. finished 10th in the championship on 53 points, three positions and 16 points adrift of Renault team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, who wound up as the lead midfielder. But Sainz Jr. reckons his prospects of classifying higher were hamstrung by situations out of his control striking on weekends where he performed strongly. Sainz Jr. was poised to head the midfield group in France, before an MGU-K failure dropped him from sixth to eighth, while a battery issue was deemed the culprit in Mexico, where a promising performance was prematurely...
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