Max Verstappen overwhelmed again, this time in the sprint race of Austrian F1 GP played this Saturday, achieving the victory and the 8 points awarded to the winner by being ahead of his teammate ‘Checo’ Pérez and a very good Carlos Sainz, who climbed the box for the first time this year (th 3) after a good race without mistakes in very difficult conditions, because the race started on a wet track.
The Dutchman has no rival. He won with a 21-second advantage over ‘Checo’ in a 24-lap race. There is nothing to add about the efficiency of the Dutchman, who had only a few complications in the first few meters due to Pérez’s better start and the overly aggressive action of the man from Guadalajara.
Cut between Max and ‘Czech’ to boot
The Mexican got out better and entered Max’s car at turn 1. Verstappen stuck to his teammate’s rear wing to bring the game back into the slipstream, but there, ‘Checo’ cornered the Dutchman on the right and came Max to place both of its right wheels. in the grass at full throttle. Things could have ended very badly, in the style of the accident involving Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton at Barcelona 2016. However, fate wanted nothing to happen.
On the wet asphalt, for the intermediate tires, Max avoided a possible incident and it was burning towards the ‘Checo’. He unleashes a massive ax blow on him, throwing himself on turn 3 from his house. Max took a long time and forced ‘Checo’ to go with him. At the same outside corner, Max regained first place and Pérez watched as Hülkenberg grabbed second position from him.
Sainz, 3rd behind Pérez
It will be difficult for Pérez to get past Hülkenberg and that will end any chance of victory for the Mexican. Finally, Pérez was able to regain second place after 11 laps, on lap 12, with a good move on the German. Max is on another planet on his way to victory. ‘Checo’ is second, a position he will never relinquish. And Carlos Sainz, with a good start, is close to the Mexican.
It didn’t take long for the Spaniard to pass Hülkenberg too with a good manoeuvre, first putting the car in turn 3 and then, with good braking on the inside in turn 4. The Spaniard confirmed how comfortable he is with the car and the pace. forward provided by the car, also at speed and wet with new updates brought to Austria earlier than expected after a great effort from the Maranello factory.
Prize for Sainz and nightmare for Leclerc
Carlos started 5th and benefited from a bad second corner by Lando Norris who started 3rd and lost a spot after a long break. Then, in a great rhythm, he stuck to ‘Checo’ and passed when he had to Nico Hülkenberg to keep the Mexican from losing steam. He finished 2″ behind Pérez to sign his first podium of the year, albeit in a sprint race. Now Carlos will be looking for his first long race course podium this Sunday starting 3rd.
Worse luck with Leclerc getting up with his left foot. The Monegasque shone on Friday in Q3 with a great last lap to take 2nd ahead of Carlos, who was 3rd. But a day later, it sank again in delicate conditions. He failed on the rather wet asphalt in qualifying, finishing 6th. In addition, he blocked Piastri again and gained 3 penalty positions where he came out 9th. From there, his career was a nightmare. He had to fight with Ocon and Norris in the first part of the event and finally decided to surprise the dry tires, because he was out of the points. With mediocre rubber, he could only settle for a paltry 12th place after battling Albon with a superior car.
Alonso, 5th
Lance Stroll was fourth, ahead of Fernando Alonso, who finished fifth. Alonso started 6th, ahead of Lance, but the Canadian took advantage of Alonso’s delay at turn 3, on a slippery track, to wrest the position from him. The man from Oviedo attacked from the start. In turn 3 he opted to go outside to pass Sainz and Hülkenberg in a flash, but he went wide and found a Norris on the line struggling to pull away. He had to leave the track to avoid the British and thus lost a place with Stroll. Even Albon and Ocon were in sync, but the Oviedo man was able to minimize losses with excellent defense on the outside to get back behind Lance.
From there, Alonso stuck to Stroll, never overtaking his partner despite seeming to have more rhythm. Both lost a Hülkenberg who ended up sinking to 6th place ahead of Esteban Ocon and a George Russell (8th) who came back from 15th place after risking a dry tire late in the race to score the final points that were distributed Norris (9th) and Hamilton (10th) were at the door of the points, who started 18th and also recovered places with a good start and a final attack with dry tires.
Source: La Verdad
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