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Sainz: A small miscalculation here makes you pay a big price!

Carlos Sainz crashed heavily during the second half of the first free practice session of the Japanese Grand Prix weekend, acknowledging afterwards that a slight mistake at the legendary Suzuka circuit can have hefty consequences. The Toro Rosso driver was on a hot lap when he got wide into the Turn 11 hairpin, missing the apex, the right rear tyre tagged the grass on the exit and thereafter he became a passenger as his car speared into the barrier on the other side of the track. The Spaniard emerged from his wrecked car unscathed. Speaking after the incident, Sainz explained, “It looked quite incredible on the TV, but luckily it wasn’t such a big one from inside the cockpit. We...
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