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Carlos Sainz Jr. maintains home points streak with 'strange' race recovery

Carlos Sainz Jr. described his Spanish Grand Prix as “strange” in the wake of maintaining his record of scoring points at his home Formula 1 event. Sainz Jr. placed ninth for Toro Rosso at Barcelona in 2015 and followed it up with sixth a year later, with two successive seventh-place finishes following in 2017 and 2018, the latter for Renault. Sainz Jr. was eliminated from Q2 this year in the wake of a scruffy second push lap in the session and was only on the fringes of the top 10 for much of the race. But the late race Safety Car brought Sainz Jr. back into contention and he worked his way past rivals to move into eighth position. The result enabled McLaren to preserve fourth...
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