Dutch driver Max Verstappen took another firm step towards revalidating the title in Formula 1: he won the Dutch Grand Prix.
It shone in the courtyard of his house. The Dutch pilot Max Verstappenwas awarded this Sunday the Dutch GP of the formula 1.
The main pilot of Red Bull He was intractable and managed to maintain the first place from which he started for having won the ‘pole’.
After ‘Mad-Max’, who also took the fastest lap, George Rusell from Mercedes and Charles Leclerc from Ferrari got on the podium.
MAX VERSTEPEN WINS AT ZANDVOORT!!!
What an incredible race that was! ????
Russell takes second place with Leclerc finishing third#DutchGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/NO0f0nJjss
— Formula 1 (@F1) September 4, 2022
The race was marked by the incidents of the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri) and the Finnish Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) towards lap 50 of the 72 that were given to the winding and banked circuit of Zandvoort.
At the start, Verstappen contained Leclerc and the Spanish Carlos Sainz, with a touch included, the British Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes). The Dutchman thus began, with a firm step, the road to victory at home.
Sainz, who was going to third, ran out of options to fight for victory due to a Ferrari blunder, that he forgot about the left rear tire at his first stop, on lap 15, and made him lose more than 12 seconds.
The man from Madrid lost the position with the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), who could not avoid going over the Ferrari pistol, and with Hamilton.
The two Mercedes, initially coming to a stop, led when Verstappen switched to mids on lap 19, and Russell tried to hold off the Dutchman, but he didn’t last a round.
Checo Pérez resisted a little more when he had to do the same with the seven-time champion, which happened to him on the second attempt, although he later ran into Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), who joined from the pits, something that made him lose some valuable seconds.
As the race approached 50 laps, Tsunoda and Alpha Tauri staged a chain of errors that ended with the Japanese parked and a virtual ‘safety car’ that benefited Verstappen and hurt Mercedes and Ferrari, who had just stopped by the garage to change the tires.
Another incident, this time due to a mechanical problem with the Finn’s Alfa Romeo Valtteri Bottas, who was left lying on the finish line, he forced to take out the safety and even divert the cars through the pit lane.
Hamilton did not change tires, Verstappen and Russell, like most, did, the race was relaunched with 12 laps to go and the Dutchman, like when he won last year, overtook him right away, almost over the finish line.
The leader went for his tenth win, the fourth in a row, the Mercedes, to Hamilton’s annoyance, exchanged positions, and the seven-time champion lost the podium at the hands of Leclerc.
???? END OF RACE (LAP 72/72) ????
What a roller-coaster race that was! ????#DutchGP #F1 pic.twitter.com/9cHNwkqVPz
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Pérez entered fifth, Alonso was sixth after a great race and containing the British Lando Norris (McLaren), Sainz, relegated by a five-second penalty for an unsafe release (reckless exit from the pits when Alonso appeared), fell to eighth place.
The next race of the Formula 1 World Championship will be next weekend at the Monza circuit with the Italian Grand Prix at stake.