Verstappen overtakes Senna to win in Austria

Max Verstappen Continue to spread his legend further. He broke most precocious records when he started participating in the “Great Circus” and still stands today. Now suppose you want to shred some other data. At 25, he has spent the most time in the world, but as one of the most memorable and accomplished pilots, he already has mature flying skills. The Dutch player won the 2023 F1 Austrian Grand Prix by taking advantage of the superiority of the machine and won his seventh victory in nine races. Unbeaten win for 3rd consecutive F1 title.

2023 F1 World Cup classification

After 25 years, he became just the fifth driver to record 42 wins in F1 history since Sunday, surpassing Ayrton Senna, the driver of whom much has been compared in his career. “My idol is not Senna. He is my father”Max once said: It shows his character unlike others, the character of a predator and the character of a pilot who doesn’t care what people think. The simplest answer was “Yes, the example to follow is always Ayrton.” It was good and everyone would have praised him. But it’s not Max. The Dutch don’t care about anything. Just think he wins. Live to win and live to win. He was raised with such a philosophy of life. And it was evident in the way he won.

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He didn’t want to leave a fast lap to his teammate ‘Czech’ Perez, who returned from 15th to the podium (3rd) after Leclerc (2nd). It was so much that with two laps to go he was 23 seconds ahead of Charles when he decided to stop for new rubber. Anything could have happened to him in the pits. But he didn’t mind. He changed tyres, went out on top again, gave the tires time to warm up, crossed the finish line, set the fastest lap points and won the race. Insulting.

Ferrari improved, but still a Ferrari

Verstappen won comfortably, but this time his rival won, but that hasn’t changed. His biggest opponent in the first half of the championship was ‘Czech’ Perez, Alonso’s Aston Martin, this time it was Ferrari that challenged the impossible. And even if it already seemed inconceivable that no one could take victory away from Verstappen in Austria, Ferrari wanted to make life a little more complicated with a blow underfootpreferred Leclerc’s starting position over Sainz, who was much faster.

On the walls of Maranello, no one dared to question ‘Il Principino’ during the race, or at least for a while. You can’t even think about the numbers against Monaco! On lap nine, Sainz closed in on Charles with better pace than Leclerc, who was losing momentum to Verstappen. Sainz was told over the radio, “Give me the rhythm.” “I think it’s windy. You don’t need me to tell you.” In this way, needless to say, Carlos asked to let Charles through. “We support the plan. Please don’t attack for now.” They responded to Carlos, who was losing time chasing his partner. “Okay, I have a rhythm. Let’s at least see if we can get to Max.” Sainz commented desperately. But it’s not. Carlos approached Charles to show he was more saving, but no one was willing to change positions to try something different. Should keeping Charles happy be more important than wasting time in the race? What would Ferrari have lost by letting Sainz pass and shoot? It could have helped Carlos if he bought some time, and probably the team would have benefited as well. But they did nothing.

Thus the de facto “safety car” arrived on lap 14. At that point Carlos was very comfortable with great pace but Ferrari decided to stop the two drivers at that moment. Sainz got too close to Charles and had to wait for Leclerc’s bad save (4.2), and worse, his save was also bad (4.3). Leclerc returned to the track in second place, while Carlos lost two positions to Hamilton and Norris, who stopped one corner early, and Perez, who did not. “Why didn’t you just keep me out? Come on guys, come on…” Sainz wailed against the wall. he wasted a lot of time. It was there when Sainz flipped the switch. He started shooting with all his might and had great pace, successfully passing Norris and then overtaking Hamilton. I was shooting with everything. I’m trying to make up for lost seconds for the team. But he went too far. He went over the track limit too many times and was given a five-second penalty, which meant he was punished for his second and final stop. Charles was just faster than Carlos at that moment when the man from Madrid was being warned that he could penalize Carlos. From there the Spaniards became hammers again. He had to defend his podium spot against Perez, who made his final stop five laps behind Perez.

But Perez eventually arrived with a better machine. Sainz went all out on laps 60 and 61. He was very clever, passing behind Perez on the first DRS detection line and returning the pass in the next meter. He defended himself like a lion for two laps in a row. However, in the third time, “Czech” figured out his trick and eventually beat him with a car and new tires. Sainz finished fourth. It deserved more awards. But today everything was against him. At least he was the key to Leclerc’s second-place finish. Perez’s excellent defense took valuable time away from the Mexican, who was 12 inches behind Monaco.

Alonso finishes 6th in Aston Martin by a wide margin

Fernando Alonso was sixth. Aston Martin couldn’t have done more after failing to deliver the expected pace in Austria, but the improvements the Italians brought to the Spielberg track put Ferrari one step ahead, as did Norris’ McLaren (5th). surpassed At this track he showcased several evolutions that greatly improved his team at Woking. after red bull The chasing group’s leadership rotates depending on the characteristics of each truck and the new items the team carries. This time, A.Ston Martin is out, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be in future races. The battle behind Red Bull is exciting and unpredictable.

Sixth was the highest finish Alonso could have hoped for today and he has achieved it. He overtook Stroll, 10, at the start for fifth, before Perez passed him in the come-from-behind. He couldn’t ask for more and finished the event alone, 3 inches 9 seconds behind Norris and 8 inches 8 seconds ahead of Mercedes’ Hamilton, but this time Lewis in 7th and Russell. I had to settle for 8th place.