The luck of the champion: a bird could spoil Verstappen’s victory in Canada in favor of Alonso

Sometimes a champion’s luck is needed. It’s not enough to be the fastest. There are certain days when fate should smile on you to achieve your goals. Let them say Max Verstappen. Within Canadian F1 GP, the Dutch driver alerted his team on lap 11 that he had hit a bird flying over the track with his car. At the end of the race, the pilot himself and the Red Bull Team principal Christian Horner, claimed that Verstappen won after driving the remaining 59 laps with the bird stuck in his brake duct. He could have abandoned her, but nothing happened. He was able to drive well and win.

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If he encountered a problem, Fernando Alonso achieved his long-awaited victory 33. Imagine what the Asturian must have thought when he heard that Max he managed to win a bird stuck in the brake duct. Even more than what happened to Fernando a few years ago: in 2021, with Alpinehad to retire on lap 33 in Bahrain because a sandwich wrapper got into his brake duct during the race. “A sandwich wrapper was stuck inside the rear brake duct of Fernando’s car,” his team said. Now, two years later, nothing like that has happened to Max.

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“It was still stuck in my car when I got there, doesn’t look good!” told ‘Sky Sports F1’ Max Verstappen after winning, lamenting that “a mechanic has to take it off”. So it is. The photo confirming Max’s claims, of a Red Bull mechanic with a dead bird in his hand taken from Verstappen’s car, has gone viral on social networks.

Horner, aware that the bird could cost him the win and spoil Verstappen’s day, did not hesitate to ensure that “Max’s biggest moment was hitting a bird that got stuck halfway through the race behind the right front brake duct”said Horner. Max’s brakes seem inexplicably not to overheat and he gets into such trouble that he is forced to say goodbye to the date early. Red Bull continued to give wings to Max, who achieved his 6th victory in 8 races against Alonso who added an excellent second position in his Aston Martin.