Sprint Austria: The Ferraris race, Verstappen celebrates and Alonso doesn’t come out

This is the first attack, uncertain. Instead, a nice appetizer to what’s to be seen this Sunday. Verstappen brought the cat to the water this Saturday winning the F1 Austrian GP sprint race. He took the winner’s 8 points and he was the World Cup leader. He carried out the plan he had in mind: he kept the first position and fled from the two Ferraris, which in turn did their part to make the Dutchman fulfill his mission. Sainz and Leclerc were involved in a fight that did not benefit anyone, with Charles 2nd and Charles 3rd. At first Carlos was faster but Charles did not miss him. Maybe Verstappen still won, that won’t be known. But what is certain is that the fight of the two vehicles from Maranello did not help in their pursuit attempt.

Carlos dreamed of winning this qualifying round. But this time he came off aggressive in the first corners. He tried and should applaud. But it didn’t work for him. Good practice for the main course: this Sunday’s race.

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Carlos pulled it all out. Starting third on a track like Spielberg is perfect for several reasons: to start from the clean side and have a very long second straight where you catch a big slipstream from the cars in front. He showed it this Saturday. From third spot he caught Charles outside on turn 1 and took the slipstream from Verstappen on the straight turn 3. The world champion is brilliant at defensive braking inside. The failure of the Spaniards came. Carlos tried it out and there wasted his options. The elements invite us to think that something good can’t come out of it for him: braking out of a slow curve next to Max doesn’t seem to be the best. He stretched too far into the very tight corner and he was hurt. And Leclerc took advantage of this to get inside to regain second place.

The two Ferraris are identical. How timely after all that has been said about the two drivers after what happened last week in Silverstone. there, Carlos He was going outside towards turn 4, ahead, but Charles didn’t let go of his arm to twist and caught Carlos inside, opening his line perfectly so that Sainz couldn’t pass him.

Battle between two Ferraris

Charles was then to shoot to go Max. But Carlos, slipstreaming and companion DRS, is faster than Monegasque. I always remember what happened last week Silverstonewhere ‘Il Principino’ He never stopped sending messages over the radio making sure he was faster. This time, the presentation didn’t show either a Sainz with more rhythm and tried. On lap 6 he showed her the car and on lap 7 he tried everything. It is launched within turn 3 and again both are parallel towards turn 4. What happened at the beginning is repeated. Charles took heart and strangled Carlos.

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Meanwhile, Max is still getting oxygen in his head. From there, the race calmed down in the first positions. For Verstappen It was a glorious ride before the stands’orange‘. For Sainz, this is a warning for this Sunday. He knew starting in the third he could try to be first this Sunday. And you will learn from what happened this Saturday.

Alonso, trouble before leaving

Fernando Alonso did not start the sprint race on Saturday due to a problem with his vehicle, which failed to start the formation lap from the grid. Despite the attempts of mechanics that Alpinethe Spanish vehicle could not start from the pit lane.

Russell, 4th, Pérez 5th and Schumacher stopped Hamilton