As if Ferrari’s day was not difficult enough in Budapest on Sunday, Carlos Sainz discovered after the race that there was a plastic bag stuck to the side of the car. The Spaniard had started the race second behind George Russell after the polesitter’s superb lap in qualifying, and he went longer in the first stint than the Mercedes. A slow stop for the 27-year-old denied him the chance to clear Russell in the pits, and also cost him a position to team-mate Charles Leclerc. The Monegasque managed to pass Russell in the middle stint, before the Scuderia inexplicably called him in for a set of Hards, responding to a stop from fourth-placed Max Verstappen, who was not even a threat at that...
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