Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull) Hit the Formula 1 World Championship By winning the French Grand Prix this Sunday of the championship held at the Paul Ricard circuit where Monegasque competed. charles leclerc (Ferrari), starting from pole position, abandoned after accident -no physical consequences- Eighteen of 53 laps took place on the very hot and windy gala track.

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Verstappen, 24, directed seventh win of the year -Twenty-seventh in F1- by winning at Le Castellet in front of two MercedesThe race is the race of seven-time British world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who completed his 300th Grand Prix, and his compatriot and teammate George Russell, who finished third this Sunday. In a race where Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) was fourth ahead of two Spaniards: Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) of Madrid, who set the fastest lap of the race and was named the ‘Driver of the Day’, and Fernando Alonso (Alp), the double champion Asturian world champion. fifth and sixth, respectively.

Leclerc, who initially complained about a malfunction in the accelerator pedal—in radio communications—before he let out a grunt cry of anger, later admitted: it was his fault and this, with idiots like this Doesn’t “deserve” to win the World Cup. Either way, Monegasque not only missed a golden opportunity to close the gap, but alsoNow he is at 63 of the 233 points where he dominates ‘Mad Max’.. In a championship where ‘Checo’ was third, where Russell finally snatched the podium when the test was restarted after a virtual safety car was decided when China’s Ganyu Zhou’s Alfa Romeo ‘stopped’: 163 points.

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Sainz completed an extraordinary weekend He said he would have been honored if he hadn’t been penalized for replacing the engine and his team hadn’t failed his first pit stop. five second penalty, due to an unsafe version. He placed first in free practice on Friday; On Saturday – aimless, after learning of his sanction – he was by far the fastest and helped Leclerc sign the ‘pole’; and this Sunday, he made a big comeback in the race, climbing from nineteenth to fifth place.

‘The Matador’s son remains fourth in the championship, now 144 piecesFewer than 89 World Cup leaders.

Nearly 41-year-old countryman Alonso, He continues to compete as he did in his best timesonce again optimized resources and placed sixth with Alpine, who moved up to fourth place with 93 points, four points from McLaren in the Constructors’ World Championship.