What image. What a photo. What sequence. What a moment it was to see Sergio Pérez, Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz go through interviews. Walking together on the asphalt. Enjoy after being the best of the classification of the Miami GP. And yes, F1, a competition with a great Anglo-Saxon tradition, now speaks Spanish. Now he speaks more and more Spanish.
The three, Mexican, Asturian and Madrid, put the Latin accent in Miami. They put the show on a test run, on a weekend, which in his second time in the World Cup He experienced something never seen before in the championship. Because it had never been the case of seeing, after a classification, three Spanish speakers in the subsequent ceremonies on a Saturday.
Sergio Pérez took pole position. He did it by putting on a follow up to his great performance in Azerbaijan. The Mexican is running as a candidate to win the World Cup, despite sharing a team with Max Verstappen. for now, after four races Australia is making a difference between the Red Bulls.
Verstappen and Leclerc, double of errors
The Dutchman made not one but two consecutive mistakes in what was to be his first lap in Q3. He didn’t complete it, and that caused the yellow flag, later red, that came out after Charles Leclerc’s accident meant that he could not set a single time. Nineth. His partner, first.
The difference between Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll was older. Because the Canadian did not go beyond Q1 while the Asturian, always reliable, put Aston Martin in Q3. At the moment of truth, as always, zero failures.
With used soft tyre, better than others with new rubbers. It is the second first line of the Asturian, but in Jeddah he achieved it due to the sanction of Charles Leclerc.
The Monegasque was key to the outcome of the classification. Because after Free Practice 2 he made another mistake in the same place so that the session ended with 1:36 to go. He did score a lap, but insufficient to beat Carlos Sainz. The man from Madrid, third. It is the first time that he has achieved it in this 2023.
And in Belgium…
Similar, more or less, will be the grid in sight at the 2022 Belgian GP. In Spa, a place to serve penalties, there were many who penalized. Verstappen took pole position, for ahead of Carlos Sainz and Sergio Pérez. Fernando Alonso was sixth, after Charles Leclerc and Esteban Ocon. Max, the Monegasque and the Frenchman penalized, and the starting line was Sainz, Pérez and Alonso.
It is, therefore, the first time that in the ceremony after a classification so much Spanish is spoken… and seeing how they are doing so much Pérez like Sainz and Alonso might not be the only one.
