to win a F1 World Cup you have to touch perfection. He knows red bull after achieving the seemingly impossible last year Verstappen defeat the mighty Lewis Hamilton. They achieve this by bordering on efficiency at moments of maximum pressure. That Max title could be a work of art to be displayed in the Louvre. Something worth admiring despite the controversial ending. An example. Ferrari knows that if it wants to beat Max Verstappen’s Red Bull this year, apart from having a very fast car, it cannot afford to go wrong against a team that is prepared on all levels. And there the Italians destroy their dream, as it happened again, in a French GP which ended in Max Verstappen won and Leclerc on the wall.
Max Verstappen won his 27th F1 victory on Sunday, his 7th in 12 races this season and further leads the World Cup after seeing how Charles Leclerc added zero due to another possible Ferrari reliability problem led the Monegasque to the wall when He was fighting for victory. Another Ferrari drama, another drama for Charles, which based on errors is moving away from its long-awaited scepter. Arrived at Paul Ricard 38 points from Verstappen and he left Le Castellet in almost double: in 63. A certain blow, or almost.
The race is perfect. A battle of the wishes of the fans is boiling. A Leclerc-Verstappen which looks very nice. Charles defended his pole position well. I know that Red Bull should be the favorite for their theoretical best degradation on this track. But with the intense heat that hit the track (almost 60 degrees on the asphalt) and the wind change, anything could happen. Leclerc is ready to fight. He defends himself against a Max with better speed who soon catches up with him. The Monegasque is closing all the doors and Verstappen is not quite at his best.
Charles resists. He lives up to his last name. He wanted to dress up as a hero, like General Leclerc, when with the 9th company, with only 160 men, against all odds, he liberated Paris from the Germans. Leclerc did everything perfectly and forced Verstappen to launch the attack in the pits by stopping earlier. Charles decided to continue on the track, pulling hard to maintain his hegemonic position when he stopped. But at that moment of the highest tension… comes the drama. “He can’t let go of the throttle. Noooooooo! ” Charles exclaimed over the radio with a scream full of anger, despair and hopelessness. Full of pain.
In the Signes corner, where you come in with the pedal to the floor and draw by letting off the accelerator at the top, certainly at that moment he didn’t seem to be able to stop the acceleration and that made him spin. Another reliability flaw that caused him to throw away another title. Another Ferrari mistake that affects your options. In Barcelona and Baku, his engine said enough when he was in the lead. At Monaco and Silverstone, his team’s strategic mistakes robbed him of victory. In Canada he has to penalize changing the engine. In Austria he managed to salvage the victory despite a problem with the accelerator pedal. And two weeks later, that problem was really fatal.
Hamilton and Russell, podium
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Source: La Verdad
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