If Red Bull’s superiority is clear, Max Verstappen’s is even more so who, even starting from ninth position, has found no rival and has managed to cross the finish line first with impeccable driving and a pace that is difficult to beat. Not even Checo Pérez’s pole position with the same car have been able to stop the ambition of the current champion who seems to be on another level, in another galaxy. The Dutch driver seems to be in a state of grace, he has the best car and is undoubtedly in the best physical and mental shape of his career. Verstappen has managed to improve the times of all the single-seaters, including his teammate with harder and older tires, he has allowed himself the luxury of overtaking, up to two by two, each of the cars that prevented him from reaching the only of your goals, win.
Yes ok Pérez has acknowledged that the weekend has not been the best and that the problems have prevented him from getting the most out of his car and reaching a competitive pace, Verstappen’s performance calls into question the work of his teammate.
Although the fans they had dreamed of a podium different from that of other great prizes After the classification left us the first Latino line in history, the orange beast has broken with the wishes of many and has deprived the American public, full of Mexicans, of seeing its pilot win again this season.
Doubts cease to be and we begin to have some certainties. The first is that Red Bull is a wall for the rest of the teams and that only an accident or a mechanical failure can allow the rest to achieve victory, especially Fernando Alonso who seems to have subscribed to third position, to be the first of the others, the first of mortals.
The Aston Martin, and above all Fernando Alonso have signed again a shiny grand prize, keeping its immediate competitors, especially Ferrari, at bay. The Asturian pilot has shown to be a brilliant strategist keeping his distance from Carlos Sainz during the first stop, and with George Russell after. We must not detract from a new podium for Alonso since, after the Red Bulls, he is the only driver who does not fail, who remains alert and on the lookout for the bull’s cars, waiting for failure, waiting for the opportunity.
Getting it right seems easy but failing is also easy when concentration is lost, and if not, tell someone Carlos Sainz who lost his podium chances after making a rookie mistake and speeding at the pit lane entrance. The desire to make a undercar Alonso was forced to make a mistake by the Spaniard who had to serve a five-second penalty that dropped him to fifth in the race.
Just one step forward from Aston Martin could unsettle Red Bull that they feel comfortable and safe despite having a limited budget and therefore also a limited number of hours they can use to test and implement the evolutions during the season. Even so, the superiority is so great that the sanction becomes insignificant.
2023-05-07 22:27:41
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