Max Verstappen wins British Grand Prix

Verstappen, 25 years old and who clearly pointing to a third title in a rowHe scored his forty-third victory in F1, his eighth and sixth straight of the season, by winning the British Grand Prix ahead of two Britons, Lando Norris (McLaren), who finished second; and seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), accompanying them on the podium of a Mexican race. Sergio Perez (Red Bull) He returned to lead the comeback and finished sixth after starting fifteenth..

Realizing more and more clearly that only tragedy separates the ever-hungry and talented ‘Mad Max’ from success, local fans celebrated the two honors they occupy this Sunday with Dutch star Norris. Equalized his best result in F1– and Hamilton He was on the podium for the fourteenth time in a period where no one equaled eight wins.. By far the best rookie of the season, Australian Oscar Piastri finished a sensational day for McLaren by finishing fourth, marking the best result of his short freshman career.

But Verstappen was the winner once again with the unbeatable RB19 designed by star British engineer Adrian Newey, a true genius of aerodynamics. for the moment wins eighty percent of the races it participates in this year. Even in the twelve races to the World Cup in Abu Dhabi, which ends at the end of November, it’s a percentage that could increase by far.

The Austrian team, which this Sunday will once again win the Builders World Cup without a hitch, continued to polish its record. In 1988, McLaren, driven by two legends like France’s Alain Prost and Brazilian Ayrton Senna, won the first eleven races of the season. That mark is within striking distance of Red Bull signing this Sunday, which took their eleventh straight win – adding to last year’s test, which ‘Mad Max’ also won last year.

Dutch super predator now the leader with 255 points, 99 points more than ‘Checo’ And With a 118 advantage over the Asturias double world champion; Aston Martin, who went two rows and put in enough effort to finish seventh on a track with fast corners.

Absolutely no one would bet on anything other than Verstappen’s win; He ‘warmed up’ leading two free practice timelines on Friday and signed his twenty-seventh ‘pol’ in freshman year on Saturday: seventh in the course and fifth in a row.

Because Verstappen eats separately; qualifier decided who will start after him this Sunday. It was an exciting and intense past with changing circumstances; and confirming his excellent performance in the race on Saturday, McLaren settled on an unusual grille where Norris placed Piastri, who was second and would certainly have been on the podium had it not been for the ‘safety car’ that hit the track this Sunday. -, third.

Ordered behind the Monegasque Ferrari charles leclerc And Carlos’s – winner a year ago and fifth in qualifying – and George Russell’s Mercedes – fifth this Sunday – and Hamilton.

Alonso started ninth alongside French Pierre Gasly.; and his team is behind Alex Albon of Thailand, who crowned his team with eighth place in the festivities organized to commemorate Williams’ 800th Grand Prix; they said they would indeed be held in Hungary in two weeks, but they were ready for ‘their’ home races before the Emilia Romagna GP was suspended – due to the tragedy caused by the flood.

After another memorable Saturday in which he was eliminated again in Q1, ‘Czech’ was looking for another comeback from fifteenth place – the same as he was promoted to third in Austria – and he succeeded, but it took time to start. advancing in the group and had to settle for the sixth final place

Top twelve outputs on the grid All medium tires except Russellwho made it with the soft one; and the German Nico Hülkenberg (Haas), starting with the hard ones.

Norris dared to question the authority of ‘Mad Max’ and got past him with a great start, and the fellow McLaren, Piastri, nearly outstripped him. Russell passed Sainz in sixth place ahead of Alonso.He won a place when Hamilton opened wide in the fourth of the 18 corners of the track that hosted the first race in F1 history in 1950 .

Verstappen set things right in fifth of 52 lapsThat he beat Lando and took the lead of the race. Two before Sir Lewis crossed Alonso and came between two Spaniards; waiting for the light rain forecast to be confirmed; which did not happen. In a test where few people complained about the wind.

At 19, Leclerc stopped to place the hard one and avoid an “undercut” that Russell had begun without overly disrupting the soft. As Gasly continued to attack Alonso fiercely; and Verstappen began marking the fast laps.

A few laps later, Russell spotted Carlos. Sainz stopped at 27 and put the hardness. ‘Already in the points zone, Checo’ set up the soft two laps later; When Russell emerged with a slow stance that brought him back to the track behind Leclerc; But it took very little time to get to that.

Inside 33 Kevin Magnussen’s Haas engine caught fireA virtual “safety vehicle” was decided before the “real” safety vehicle entered the track. Something that benefits Alonso, who doesn’t stop and seizes the opportunity to do so and puts the softness on the finish line with a shot; and above all to Hamilton, who did the same and returned to the track in third place behind Max and Lando, Threatened by the soft tire carried by Sir Lewis’s Mercedes.

Piastri finished fourth, ahead of Russell and Alonso. Sainz was in seventh place – the hard one – and faced a finish that left the Ferraris in the last two points; they are still far from where they want to be. Eighth with ‘Checo’ being one of the beneficiaries of the security tool.

‘Safety’, fourteen laps to go. Without DRS, Norris defended himself as best he could, but blocked Hamilton, so Verstappen said goodbye in the first trade and was on his way to his eighty percent victory so far this year.

Carlos lost a difficult position with ‘Checo’, Albon and finally Leclerc; He said he would finish ninth, one row ahead. Hamilton stubbornly attacked a Norris who was defending himself like a cat. and his seventh podium finish at the age of 23; category in which he equals his best result to date.

Alonso suffered from ‘Checo’ and surrendered to the Mexican with five laps to go, in a frenzied finish with several overruns of the track limits and a DRS train forming behind the Asturian double world champion; Proving once again that he has a computer in his head and that his hands are made of gold.

No one could do with him; and he finished seventh, optimizing his resources once again, on a track opposite to the performance of the green car, where he celebrated two of his 32 wins in F1.

The great Asturias driver will once again aim for the long-awaited ’33’ victory in two weekendsIn the Hungaroring, home of the Hungarian Grand Prix: here, almost two decades ago, he stunned the world by scoring the winner.