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#4 Spectacular weekend for Carlos Sainz
The repeated safety car call-ups, the indecision between which tire choice was most suitable and of course the Lap 1 crash helped some of the mid-tier teams make huge advances. The biggest winner of them all was Spaniard Carlos Sainz. He finished 4th, the career-best.
He's sure to go out and celebrate this result but that wasn't the only he had to smile about from this weekend. A by-product of the new deals for 2018 between Honda and Toro Rosso, and McLaren and Renault was the transfer of Sainz from Toro Rosso to Renault 'on loan'.
So while his current team goes agrees to a deal with an engine partner that hasn't shown reliability, Sainz will move on to a manufacturer team that has shown scope for growth.
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