Carlos Sainz believes Turn 2 at the Sochi Autodrom “shouldn’t exist” thanks to its tendency to cause incidents. The large run-off area at the end of the main straight often encourages drivers to leave the track if they can’t make the first turn, though in doing so they have to also miss Turn 2 and instead follow a route marked out by boards to return to the track. And at the start Sainz did this, but while trying to weave through the boards he got it all wrong and clattered the wall, causing him to retire from the race with the front-left area of his McLaren ruined. Sainz held his hands up for the incident but said that configuration at Turn 2 shouldn’t exist anyway....
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