A brake pass from Haas from Magnusen on lap 56 turned the Australian race into a two-lap Grand Prix. The culmination of a race with two safety cars, red flags, exits from the pit lane… Verstappen promised them happiness, Hamilton took the second step and Fernando Alonso showed his teeth to the British, to whom he devoted a few. Carlos Sainz was bitten in the back as he tried to climb the podium.
“Brutal War”
Until Magnusen turned a corner and ran into the wall and lost his wheel and filled the track with the casing of his rear wheel. A two-lap race with a standing start from the grid for the third time. “One of the most brutal battles in living memory. It will be historical. For someone, it can all end in the first round”, Antonio Lobato warned in the narration.
And the worst happened at the start, Carlos Sainz touched Fernando Alonso and took him off the track. However, there was an accident behind and the start ended with the starting positions of the last two laps. There was no change as he didn’t pass the record point, with Alonso third, Hamilton second and Verstappen winning.
Sainz attacks Alonso
Fernando remained on the podium despite the last scare and attack from Sainz, who had a fight with Gasly and picked up the Spaniard as he passed. And it was under investigation in the procedure to finish the Reboot. Too much aggression in the craziest Grand Prix in recent history.
As the track was full of crashed cars, we had to wait a few minutes to find out what the final ranking of the Grand Prix was like, although thankfully there were no personal injuries. Alonso was clear that the result was the same as the start of the last reboot, and he said it on the radio after crashing into Sainz’s Ferrari.”
In the end, the decisive decision was to keep the last lap behind safety, but keep the restarted final starting order. So. Verstappen, Hamilton and Alonso on the podium. Sainz is in fourth place.