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Sainz: Under the radar and starting from zero
Toro Rosso rookie Carlos Sainz will be as disappointed as any Formula One fan that Fernando Alonso will be absent from next week's Australian season-opener. The 20-year-old Spaniard, whose double world rally champion father has the same name, has a treasured photograph from a decade ago of himself as a wide-eyed kid alongside the smiling Alonso. Both men had planned to take another, more significant one, in Melbourne — of them ready to race as rivals. Alonso, whose new adventure with Honda-powered McLaren will now have to wait until Malaysia to get started, promised last August that they would be together on the starting grid in Australia. The vow was intended as a confidence boost,...
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