When Sainz is at his best, no one stops him, not even Verstappen. And it has also been seen since Friday, in the first lap, almost since Thursday in how he enters the circuit. He had prepared himself for the video game trick of qualifying and took pole position for the first time with more than two tenths.
Today he has not been nervous and He has given Verstappen a run for his money, jumping across the pianos, to make a poster and put it up at home. He was almost 10 seconds ahead of Leclerc the entire race and he won like Schumacher did in that Ferrari, or Vettel a few later, or Fernando in some of his 11 victories in red, in a big way, passing the best and with a sidereal rhythm. Very deserved. And with the cucumber that Ferrari has since Monza, it may not be the last. “Thank you Ferrari,” he said. Class and category until the last day.
Carlos’s fourth victory in F1, and second this season after Australia, puts him on par with legendary names such as Eddie Irvine, Dan Gurney and Bruce McLaren, founder of the legendary team. The 55th adds this triumph to Great Britain 2022, Singapore 2023 and the aforementioned Antipodean recently operated on for appendicitis. The man from Madrid is already close, as is the case with the 6 poles he has, to be among the 50 best in history in this section, and gives Ferrari a new victory, the 258th in F1 (1094 races) after giving him the 253rd pole on Saturday .
Max’s thing was sung. He came out alive from the first one in Austin and today he repeated it in Mexico so it was a cross, and on top of that he got jealous, sulking, with Norris, what could go wrong? Those 20 seconds of penalty liven up the World Cup, the gossip, the criticism and the controversy, the essence of F1. Lando got angry and they attacked him, but he always goes so far to the limit that he takes risks. We’ll see what it costs him by driving the de facto third car.
Lawson has entered F1 in a big way, lifting Ricciardo’s seat, beating a legend like Alonso from day one and today delaying his dubbing by Leclerc and Norris (“what a joke,” Charles said) and giving Checo Pérez a comb, in his home, Mexico, and in his mother team, Red Bull. Of course it is a character, but progressing like this, unless you are a marvel, becomes extremely complicated.
Just the first abandonment of the yearand arrived at Fernando in his 400th race. A problem with the brakes, they did not cool, a technical failure of a car that must already be ninth, only better than the Sauber. An undeserved end to a fantastic weekend and an impressive figure.
