the dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), which cemented its leadership in the Formula One World Championship by winning the Miami Grand Prix (USA), the fifth year, declared, on the circuit built around the Hard Rock Stadium in the aforementioned town in the state of Florida, that it was “a good race”, where he remained “calm at the beginning” and that he finally settled in a “nice and clean fight” with his partner, the Mexican Sergio Pérez, who finished second.
“It was a good race, where I avoided problems at the beginning”, comments ‘Mad Max’, 25 years old, who won starting in ninth place; he set the fastest lap and now leads the World Cup with 119 points, fourteen more than the ‘Czech’; and with 44 over the Spaniard Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), who this Sunday signed his fourth podium in the first five races and third in the championship.
“We were able to spend a lot of time on the track with hard tires (The Dutchman was the last to stop to change them, in the forty-sixth of 57 laps). And I think that made the difference”, said the new sports idol from the Netherlands, who is aiming for a third consecutive title, and who, by winning ahead of his Mexican teammate and the double world champion from Asturias, is signed off on his thirty-eighth victory in F1, the third of the season.
“Yesterday was a failure”, commented Verstappen, referring to the red flag that -due to the accident of the Monegasque Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)- delayed, with just over a minute and a half left, the third round (Q3) of a qualification that did not go ahead. . That’s why he didn’t have the option of a last attempt and had to settle for ninth place on the grid, after leading all the time tables on Saturday.
“But we stayed calm. Then we had an interesting and clean battle with ‘Checo’. And in the end, we won. I am satisfied with my career,” declared Verstappen after scoring another amazing victory in Miami, where he repeated last year’s victory: when the circuit around the stadium where the Miami Dolphins play at home, the NFL team, the amazing professional American football league.
Source: La Verdad
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