2023-11-05 19:05:46
The Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull) – for a month now three-time Formula One world champion – won the Sao Paulo Grand Prix (Brazil) this Sunday, the penultimate of the year, and raised his own historical record of victories in a single race to 17. year in the queen category.
Verstappen, 26, who had started from pole, scored his 52nd victory in F1 at the Interlagos circuit; by winning, ahead of the Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren) and the Spanish double world champion Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), in a race in which the other Red Bull, the Mexican Sergio Pérez, finished fourth.
It is worth highlighting Alonso, who in a second youth at the age of 42 secured his eighth podium of the season and the 106th since he has raced in F1.
And he did it with a heart-stopping ending in which – on the track where he celebrated his two titles – he masterfully defended himself, in another exhibition, from ‘Checo’s’ attacks; which reinforced, however, his second place in the World Championship, with 258 points, 32 more than the seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who finished eighth.
With this third place, the Asturian regained fourth place in the World Cup, now with 198 points, three more than Norris, who is fifth; and six ahead of Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), who dropped to sixth place overall.
Sainz finished sixth in Sao Paulo, just behind Canadian Lance Stroll (Aston Martin). Frenchman Pierre Gasly (Alpine) was seventh, one place ahead of Sir Lewis.
The Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri) was ninth; and the Frenchman Esteban Ocon (Alpine); tenth.
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