In another triumphal ride for Verstappen, the resurrection of Hamilton and Russell surprises the Spaniard from Ferrari, who finishes fifth. Alonso can only be seventh.
From delirium he went to disappointment. The Spanish fans had been waiting for a World Cup like this for a decade, with Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz as contenders for the podium, and the carnival ended just as I passed home. It was a bad time, there will be others. There were hundreds of fans who appeared extremely excited at the Montmel circuit seven hours after the start of the race and who were already leaving, sad, wanting more, when Alonso crossed the finish line.
The final overtakes by the Aston Martin leader to finish sixth served as some consolation, a rare consolation, to be sure. Alonso against Esteban Ocon (an Alpine), against Yuki Tsunoda (an Alpha Tauri) and against guanyu zhou (an Alfa Romeo) were expected scenes in preseason, but not now, already in June, after getting on the podium in five of the first six tests. The concern, in fact, is that the new reality is this.
Because Alonso was not seventh due to some fault -beyond what happened in qualifying with a flat bottom-, because of the rain or an accident, he was seventh because he could not finish further. For the first time this season, he did not belong to the elite of the championship, but to the middle class, to the peloton. His pace, especially on soft tyres, was slow, much slower than the Red Bulls, of course, than the Mercedes and Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari, which finished fifth.
The second disappointment on Sunday for the local public. From second place on the grid, Sainz coveted the podium, it was his goal, his only goal, and he finished fifth in frustration. max verstappenwinner, is in another galaxy, flies towards his third consecutive World Cup, and his partner, Czech Prezfinally fourth, was also counted as a comeback threat.
But no one expected that the two Mercedes, lewis hamilton and George Russell, they would improve so much compared to the last races and they would get on the podium together. The two, in fact, overtook Sainz on the track without him being able to respond, fighting with the rebound in his Ferrari as he did last season. In a circuit where the single-seater puts the drivers in their place, the best to test improvements, his double win is intimidating for the future.
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