After finding himself eliminated in Q2 during Qualifying on Saturday and down in thirteenth position on the starting grid, Carlos Sainz Jr. drove a superb British Grand Prix on Sunday to claim best-of-the-rest honours in sixth place. The Spaniard started the race on Pirelli’s medium compound of tyre and was able to go deep into the race before making his one and only pit stop, with the McLaren F1 Team racer capitalising on the mid-race safety car intervention to jump his way ahead of many of his closest rivals. One of those was Renault F1 Team’s Daniel Ricciardo, with Sainz putting up an almost heroic defence against the Australian for pretty much the second half of the fifty-two-lap...
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