Carlos Sainz — the smooth operator with a hard edge

When Carlos Sainz was in hospital after having his appendix removed, the most natural thing for him — if he were the average human being — would have been to wallow in self-pity. 

The emergency surgery meant he would miss the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix — in the cut-throat world of Formula One, you never give another driver an even break, and Sainz was being forced to do just that. 

Significant displacement