With the scars on his abdomen still fresh, still diminished by a surgery that had left him out of action just two weeks ago, Carlos Sainz dominated overwhelmingly in Albert Park, on his way to his third victory in Formula 1. The most authoritarian, the most symbolic, the one that put an end to Max Verstappen's nine consecutive streak, victim of a brake failure. Red Bull, for once, was vulnerable and Charles Leclerc completed the double for Ferrari. The red delirium in Melbourne and Sainz's emotion on the radio, almost in tears: "Life is a roller coaster."
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