1. With a strong start to the season and the new Arise Racing team bringing new cars and new competition to the series it brought 3 great races .
2. With a strong start into the season and the new Arise Racing Team , which brought new cars and great competition to the series , it took 3 new races .

Select your answer from the options. Are these two sentences paraphrases of each other?
Possible answers:
*no
*yes...I think the answer is
no