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Sainz: I nearly had to vomit

A water bottle malfunction left Renault's Spanish Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz feeling sick to the stomach and ready to throw up in his helmet during the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. Sainz finished 10th in the season-opener in Melbourne, after starting ninth, and said the problem had made it a difficult afternoon. 'I had the drinks bottle pumping water to my mouth since lap one, and unconsciously I was drinking and drinking and drinking,' he told Sky Sports television. 'I just got full of water in my stomach and I wasn't feeling good… at some point during the safety car (period) I nearly had to vomit.' 'So from there on it was just about making it to the finish,' added Sainz,...
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