There are several legend passages related to driving, to the limit in urban in the history of Formula 1. Ayrton Senna said that he hardly saw, everything was a tunnel. This state of total ecstasy is repeated with racers like the one Oscar Piastri won in Jeddah to sign up for the third victory of the course. He knocked out the one who seemed impossible to lie down, Max Verstappen, and is the new leader of Formula 1 after adding Saudi Arabia to a record that does not stop growing. It makes a lot of fear.
Parallel of Verstappen and Norris.lapresse
Oscar Piastri had an outburst of those who make champions. To rebel before the best. Alonso did it with Schumacher back in 2005. Senna did with Prost. And the Australian launched his offensive at the exit of the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix. He calculated the beginning from the traffic lights, Verstappen was late in combustion and in the curve came the show that made everything jump through the air.
Because Piastri was aggressive, he strangled Max, and Verstappen had no choice but to leave. It is not clear who is more guilty, but the FIA punished the champion with five seconds. The Dutch continued pulling, but the coldness of Pastri gave him the ability to manage Rebufo del Red Bull. With a better rhythm, waiting patiently.
Until it arrived. The inexhaustible medium was exhausted on Vuelta 22. It was after another titanic exercise of Verstappen, which is the alternative to McLaren and cannot be given dead. He squeezed the rhythm with the savage of the constant 33 and caused Piastri to throw ‘cold blood. He rode the hard hard and left a brutal movement through the dirty zone of the dangerous curve 22 on Lewis Hamilton. He had no choice, because the coconut came. With the stop and sanction of Max, Piastri went to the command.
I wouldn’t lose it. Verstappen got speed with hard rubber, but Oscar Piastri had a minimal difference. Showing that doubts with the environment were only by management, without allowing the champion to enter the DRS. To reign in Jeddah and give a direct chin of all his rivals while calming the nerves of the indefatigable attacks of the Verstappen titanic. With 99 points it is leader of the first triplet.
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Melbourne’s pilot’s blow is remarkable. For the dinel of leaving Verstappen behind, and also for the amount of points that fall to Lando Norris. The British climbed until the 4th on a day of war. He had them with a resurrected Hamilton, somewhat more inspired (yes, 7th), and with a podium that was too uphill. It seemed that it would arrive, but Charles Leclerc signed another Carrerón to sign Ferrari’s first podium in a ‘normal race’.
The Monegasco got his soft to reach 30 laps, hunted Russell and ended up leaving him behind in curve 1. Norris, from behind, did not have the ability to close the gap after getting rid of the Mercedes and made the 4th good with an investigation included in the output of the box. He stayed close, but could not with the Ferrari. Italy breathes.
Sainz marks a carrier
Piastri’s smile or Verstappen’s titanic exercise bind to a resilience and rhythm race of Carlos Sainz. His had everything, because he touched the drama and came out stronger. He was 8th comfortable, he could give war to Norris and benefited from the blow to the exit between Gasly and Tsunoda. There, the Japanese did not leave the Alpine that was going to pass and the two ended on the wall. But there was bad news waiting at the stop.
Sainz hurries one of the pianos.
Sainz was one of the ones who best managed the tire, but at the Williams stop collapsed. Up to 6.9 seconds, a world in a race at a stop and so fast. He lost Comba, but his rhythm did not fall. Soon he went to Doohan and Hulkenberg, found more speed and recovered positions. Until the 8th, again. Always keeping Alex Albon and Isack Hadjar at bay and confirming that the moment comes sooner or later.
More suffered Fernando Alonso. Not without a stamp of his own, because he was the best driver of the start when he won three positions. As happened in Melbourne, it was placed at the points. But the natural tendency of things was what sent him to the bottom. The dose of reality was given by the Racing Bulls, between a sensational Hadjar ax in curve 27 and the DRS that Liam Lawson obtained shortly after.
Alonso is still zero with the 12th. He left good times, like that exit, or a risky maneuver with bortoleto in which he left green paint on the wall of 1. But there can be in a car without the capacity to do anything else. Neither fast curve, nor any other type. The year is complete transition.
Final classification of the Saudi Arabia Grand
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