Once the Drivers’ World Championship was decided in favor of the Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull) for the second season in a row, life goes on Formula 1 including the United States Grand Prixwhich will take place this weekend at Circuit of the Americaswhere the champion appears without pressure, but there are records at stake and the constructors’ title is still up for grabs.
Verstappen’s Japanese Grand Prix reign confirmation ‘jackpot’ solved, with his second mathematical option to win his second world titleThe Formula 1 it puts the focus on what remains to be fixed, even if it seems to be a secondary course.
The Dutch champion will face the nineteenth round of the season released, something that will make him stronger, and with red bull the constructors’ championship was about to be sealed.
Their doublet in Japan it put him 165 points ahead of second in the standings, ferrari, and there are 191 points at stake in the remaining four races (Brazil includes the sprint format). If he leaves the US with 147 rental points, he secures the title he has not won since 2013, then there is an engine. Renault.
To avoid this, Ferrari must beat Red Bull by 19 points on Sunday and did not even sign a double and the fastest lap (44 points) guarantees that he will still be in contention for the title, because the third and fourth places Verstappen and the Mexican Sergio Perez they will deny the constructors’ championship (27 points).
In any case, Ferrari should not be neglected either because the second position is not certain. The ‘Scuderia’ has 67 points in its favor compared to Mercedes. The battle for fourth place, which has already been passed, is tighter Alpine Y McLaren. Still the team Fernando Alonso It has a margin of 13 points.
‘Czech’ Perezracing at home next weekend, was second in the Drivers’ World Cupone point ahead of Monegasque charles leclerc. The British George Russell (Mercedes)46 points behind Mexican, and Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), at age 51, they could still be runners-up, mathematically. Also Lewis Hamiltonbut the seven-time champion is 73 points from the position he took in 2021.
This year, the one from Stevenage has not yet won, the end of the season is approaching and he has 15 consecutive championships (like Michael Schumacher in his time) without losing his appointment with a winner. If he wins a race, for example one of the Austinwill establish a historic mark.
Verstappen, on the other hand, never tires of winning on this course. He has 12 wins and is one away from tying the record for wins in a season shared by the Germans Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel. Naa Circuit of the Americas He won last year in one of his pulses with Hamilton.
One of the achievements is not the only record that can be broken; also the points (he has 365 and Hamilton reached 419), and the one with the biggest difference to the runner-up (he took 113 points from Pérez and Vettel surpassed Alonso by 155 in 2013) .
The activity on the COTA track starts this friday (9:00 pm CET) with the first two free practices. Where he will open the Grand Prix, he will make his official debut in Formula 1 -he conducted tests in Barcelona and Austria- the Spanish Alex PalouIndyCar champion in 2021.
In addition, four other unofficial drivers will take part in these free sessions: Russian-Israeli Robert Schwartzman (Ferrari), the American Logan Sergeant (Williams), the French Theo Pouchaire (Alfa Romeo) and the Italian Antonio Giovinazzi (Haas).
If the weather is good, the second free session will be extended by half an hour compared to usual (it will be an hour and a half) to test the 2023 slick tire prototypes (unmarked) so that Pirelli can fine-tune the new compounds. teams consider their hands specific versions.
For the weekend, which will be dry and sunny, Pirelli he chose C2 (hard), C3 (medium) and C4 (soft) tires.
In those games, at race (Sunday, 21:00 CET)the pilots They will do 56 laps towards the layout of Austin (5,513 meters) to cover the distance of 308,405 kmyes This is one of the most challenging circuits on the calendar, as each sector is different from the next.
Source: La Verdad
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