The 2023 F1 season is dominated in the most way in history by Max Verstappen, who became the three-time F1 world champion with record numbers: he won 19 out of 22 races, exceeding 86% of the total possible victories. Something unique and probably never repeated by anyone. The Dutch driver had no rival in a superior car perfectly adapted to his driving style with his teammate Pérez only able to achieve two wins at the start of the year. Max managed to become the first champion to double the second place in points, definitely the Mexican. Third in the World Championship was Lewis Hamilton with his Mercedes and in fourth position in the World Championship finished one of the great protagonists of the year: Fernando Alonso.
The Asturian pilot was on everyone’s lips especially at the start of the course. His decision to leave Alpine for Aston Martin, a team that is currently under construction and finished 7th (out of 10) in the 2022 Constructors’ World Championship, was criticized by many specialists. What no one expected was that the green team would achieve a huge leap in performance with its new 2023 car. To the point of being the second best car consistently in the first races. Alonso took advantage of this with a tremendous performance, winning 6 podiums from the first 8. Among them, the second place in Monaco that did not become his long-awaited 33rd victory because of only one detail: the choice of tires in his last stop of the race. He achieved two more podiums, 8 in total, with two more exhibitions. The first, at Zandvoort, making magic in the rain with a car that stops performing. Aston Martin did not make the car as expected and Mercedes, McLaren and Ferrari caught up. They reacted at the end of the course and Alonso took advantage of this to seal his final podium in Brazil in a ‘photo finish’ finale against Pérez’s superior Red Bull with action chosen by the FIA as the best of the year. in world motorsport.
The only non-Red Bull victory was won by Carlos Sainz in Singapore. Ferrari has a very fast car in a corner but it melts at race speed. They managed to improve and Sainz took advantage of the top of his car to sign two consecutive pole positions (Monza and Singapore) and make the last pole a great victory. Two bad final rounds took him out of fourth place and left him 7th in the World Cup, something that should not overshadow his excellent performance with the weapons he has.
Source: La Verdad
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