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HAS SAINZ DODGED A RED BULL-ET?

Heads you drive for Red Bull Racing, tails you’re part of the emerging Renault team’s lineup. Not a bad coin toss for Carlos Sainz for the 2019 Formula 1 season. But what if it lands on its side? Then the best laid plans of Sainz and men go awry, which is why the 24-year old currently finds himself as McLaren’s spearhead.

Sainz is clad in papaya in 2019 thanks to a combination of the cascade effect on the driver market caused by Daniel Ricciardo’s defection to Renault and Red Bull’s reluctance to recall the Spaniard given the way he agitated for a loan move away. McLaren

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