Carlos Sainz Jr. says that the McLaren F1 Team asserted itself as the fourth fastest Formula 1 team over the course of the French Grand Prix. Having locked out the third row of the grid through Lando Norris and Sainz Jr. in qualifying, the Spaniard held his starting position to claim a second top six finish of the 2019 season so far, but a late hydraulics issue dropped Norris from the tail of Sainz Jr. to ninth place in the official classification. Sainz Jr. passed team-mate Norris at the start, but was powerless to keep the recovering Scuderia Ferrari car of Sebastian Vettel behind in the early stages. He held sixth place for the remainder of the grand prix, bar his pitstop for hard...
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