The movie was repeated. In the view of Verstappen You don’t have to make a single mistake, and if necessary, you have to work as a team to defeat him. He is the reigning champion, the king, the best driver on the F1 grid, and he proves it week after week. And this time, he once again prevailed in a master class in doing the right things at decisive moments. Quite the opposite of McLaren. Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri They were angry when the English came face to face Max and Landowith more rhythm, stayed behind Piastre unable to catch up with a Max who rode unopposed to victory. Max won again ahead of Piastri (2nd), Norris (3rd), Russell (4th) and Sainz (5th) in a good foretaste of what this Sunday’s race could be (3: 00 pm): McLaren may choose to win against Max in Sunday’s event, but he will have to do better than today. They must learn.
Verstappen defended himself well in the first turns against Lando Norris, again with a good start and closing all the doors on the inside corners. QBut on a circuit with so many straights and up to three DRS zones, against the blazingly fast McLaren, Lando Norris will clearly have a chance. He tried it on lap 5 at all, hurt by what happened in Barcelona, where a bad start from pole gave the Dutchman the victory.
If there are sprints for anything, it’s the attack. And Lando did the same. He came out of the house completely when braking in lane 3, on the inside, and when he seemed to over brake, he pulled well to get ahead. But Max again showed his cunning. He rarely fails and he made it clear again. In the next corner he threw the car inside in another great maneuver and forced Norris to open up. And Piastri took advantage of that, the best spectator of that battle, to put himself parallel to Lando and surpass him.
That’s the key. Max’s rival changed and that gave him the wings to win. Piastri didn’t take advantage when he was in DRS range to make Max tremble. He couldn’t even try. And Norris seems to have sunk a bit after the last fight.
Why didn’t McLaren change position?
However, Lando reappears with super speed, faster than Oscar. It was then misunderstood that McLaren did not choose to swap positions between his teammates so that Lando could try to attack Verstappen.. Piastri was 2 seconds behind Max and didn’t have the rhythm to catch the Dutchman. And if he lets Lando pass him, it’s complicated, but still possible. However, nothing moved and Lando quickly saw another big joy slip from Oscar’s wheel.
McLaren may have a car to challenge Max, but the sprint made it clear once again that those in orange are still ‘green’ in the fight. In Canada, a bad strategic decision left Lando without success. At Barcelona, it was Norris who failed. And in the sprint in Austria, the battle between the two teammates did not help Max. They should have come together instead of getting angry. However, Lando defended the team after the sprint race and Asked if they could have caught Verstappen if he and Oscar had worked together, he denied it: “I don’t think so.”
Sometimes you win sometimes you learn. The people of Woking should heed this lesson for Sunday. But first they need to get back to the top of the grid in qualifying this Saturday to have a chance in tomorrow’s event (4:00 pm).
It is often said that ‘football is 11 against 11 and Germany always wins’. In F1, Max always wins. The last few years, because I had a car that was amazing. This year, it’s simple, because it’s the best. It did not fail. And now he is going for the pole today and victory tomorrow.
Sainz, 5th with brake problems, holds off Lewis
Carlos Sainz wants to try to get into the top 3, but his battle is with Mercedes. Ferrari does not have the speed of McLaren and Verstappen on this track despite the fact that before this Grand Prix those in red thought they could join that fight. And in that context, starting the 5th, Carlos Sainz sought fourth place. He tried to get that position from Russell and got it early with a great outside pass that caught George on the wrong foot. But Russell gained strength from the powerful Austrian DRS and returned the pass on lap 7 of the sprint race.
A small DRS train started, with Russell in fourth place ahead of Sainz, Hamilton and Leclerc, all of them close together. Carlos started having problems with the brakes and had to cool them, causing him to lose DRS to George. In that context, Carlos had to focus on defending his position against Lewis. The man from Madrid held on well, making no mistakes, and managed to finish in 5th place where the short test of the weekend started.
Hülkenberg chased down Alonso, who finished 16th
Fernando Alonso He had a difficult ballot before him. He started 13th in a car with a lot of room for improvement and it did not perform well in Austria, in addition, with the engine problem that Fernando announced on Friday, related to the fact that the engine was in last kilometer of its life. . I had already warned that I didn’t have much hope for the sprint race, and finally, it wasn’t the best morning for Alonso.
The Asturian He lost position to Tsunoda at the start and was placed 14th. And finally, Hülkenberg forced him to linger in an over-aggressive attack attempt that dropped Fernando two more places. The 16th ended in a sprint event where their priority is to collect data because their scoring options (the first 8 scores) are zero.
Source: La Verdad
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