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For you, Dietrich Mateschitz: Verstappen equals record for wins in one year, Red Bull beats Mercedes eight titles in a row

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For you, Dietrich Mateschitz: Verstappen equals record for wins in one year, Red Bull beats Mercedes eight titles in a row

More orderly was impossible. First row, the Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc. Second row, the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez. Third row, the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. The remaining places in qualifying for the United States Grand Prix were further divided with Lance Stroll’s surprise seventh place for Aston Martin ahead of Lando Norris’ McLaren and the disappointments of Daniel Ricciardo and Esteban Ocon not making it past the Q1. However, this was just a reality of the time that was not 100% reflected on the starting grid. And that was what prompted the most anticipated duel in Austin, in this case between Ferrari and Red Bull with Sainz and Verstappen.

Ferrari confirmed its dominance in Austin and Carlos Sainz took pole position at the United States GP

In the usual note after qualifying, the organization explained that Leclerc had been penalized ten positions for engine and turbo changes, among other changes such as the five-place drop of Sergio Pérez, Fernando Alonso, Tsunoda and Zhou or the departure of pit lane of Ocon. Thus, it was the Mercedes that stayed closest to see the duel that put the Dutchman ahead in a difficult week for the Austrian team after the death of Dietrich Mateschitz, who was the founder and owner of the brand.

“I saw that everything depended on a possible car insurance. If you have an intervention, the Grid they will unite and they will join the fight. Otherwise it will be a battle between two cars. If I have a perfect race I can win but Red Bull still favorite mainly because we know that from the eighth or ninth lap his car starts to have a stronger pace due to tire degradation”, admitted Carlos Sainz.

“The death of Dietrich Mateschitz is hard news for everyone, not only because of how much it meant to Red Bull, but also to the sport and to me. what you did for my career and my life… It’s hard, this is a very hard day…”, Max Verstappen had pointed out. “We have a race ahead of us and we will try to make him proud of us. I think our car is stronger in the race than in qualifying. In qualifying the differences are very small and perhaps if we connected the tires a little better it would have made a difference but in any case I hope to have a good race”, added the Dutchman, who intervened in an episode that even the director of Mercedes, Toto, disapproved . de Wolff, being whistled by the fans in a Red Bull action still as a result of the fine for exceeding the spending limits.

In theory everything could be like this, in practice it took just over a few seconds: in addition to seeing Verstappen shoot like a bullet on the straight before turn 1 for the lead, Carlos Sainz was touched by Russell, made a pedestrian and in the By lap two he was filling up his car in the Ferrari pits with the Dutchman leading second placed Lewis Hamilton by almost two seconds. Lance Stroll, also with a great start, was up third ahead of Russell, Vettel was up fifth, Sergio Pérez sixth and Leclerc already ninth at the start of the third lap. Everything was tailored to the two-time champion.

The race followed its natural course, with Verstappen complaining to the team more than once about the wind as if it were the only obstacle to a new victory, the Mercedes having Lance Stroll’s Aston Martin and the duo formed by Sergio Pérez and Charles Leclerc five top places each to fourth and seventh. And it was after almost all the top finishers had gone through the pits to change tires that the Monegasque started talking to Ferrari to ask for a “plan E”, that at the limit he could aim for a single stop if he continued to feel good about the medium he had started with.

It was on lap 18 when what Sainz said ended up benefiting Leclerc: the track entrance car insurance, after an exit from Valtteri Bottas that left the Finn stuck in the gravel. With that, Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso took the opportunity to go to the pits, having almost a “free” to change tires and with the Monegasque entering fourth place behind Verstappen, Hamilton and Pérez. It started, stopped and was slow to restart: in an atypical scare, as it was on the finish straight, Fernando Alonso leaned on Lance Stroll to try to take advantage of the air cone, the Aston Martin driver veered slightly to the left. and he ended up playing the pedestrian with the badly damaged car stopped in the middle of the track, while the Spanish car kept flying but ended up staying on the track.

In full resumption of the race, Verstappen again dug a gap of almost two seconds with Lewis Hamilton and the focus was on the fight for third position, with Leclerc in the second attempt achieving a fantastic overtaking of Pérez at the limit of the race. . braking in a curve and starting at that moment the attack on the second place of the Briton who fought well with the Dutchman even losing successively in the second sector of the track. Even so, the logic would end up changing where and when it was least expected: Max Verstappen was left with one of the wheels to close because the pistol had a problem, Leclerc went through the drawer at the same time going ahead and the Dutchman fell. to fifth, with the passing of Pérez and Vettel through the pits, he would go from first to third. “Beautiful, it was beautiful…”, he shot.

The battle between the top two drivers of 2022 was open, with Verstappen managing to overtake on lap 39 but Leclerc immediately responding to the letter before the final overtake from the Dutchman, who was then 4.4sec behind Hamilton. The Briton was left with a golden opportunity to win a race again 322 days after his victory in Saudi Arabia that preceded the electrifying Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that handed Verstappen the title in 2021. And at one point it seemed like that was it. what was about to happen. pass but the Dutchman managed to catch the Mercedes with six laps to go, risking overtaking with a corner dive and holding the response to avoid the scissors.

After Verstappen’s double championship, Red Bull also secured the title in the Constructors’ World Championship breaking an eight-year hegemony of Mercedes and two more records were set: the number of races with two drivers in the starting positions (32, ahead of Hamilton-Rosberg) and the number of victories in a single year (13, equaling to Michael Schumacher and Vettel). And he may not stop here at a time when the Dutchman is keen to make a mark far beyond the title.

Source: Observadora

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