With excess advantage, Dutchman Max Verstappen won the Formula 1 Spanish GP this Sunday and came even closer to the three-time championship. Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton and George Russell made it 2-3, in a major improvement.
Verstappen, on the way to the three-time championship in Formula 1
The Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull) reinforced his leadership in the Formula One World Championship by clearly winning the Spanish Grand Prix this Sunday, the seventh of the year, held at the Montmeló circuit (Barcelona); where the Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) finished fifth and seventh, respectively.
Verstappen, 25, who is aiming for a third title in a row, ahead of his 40th F1 victory – his fifth of the season– by winning, with a ‘Grand Slam’ (starting from pole position and leading a race from start to finish in which he set the fastest lap) at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya ahead of the two Mercedes drivers, the the English Lewis Hamilton and George Russell; in a race that the other Red Bull, that of the Mexican Sergio Pérez, finished fourth.
The Spaniards Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) finished fifth and seventh, respectively; and the Canadian Lance Stroll, a partner of the latter, was sixth.
Frenchman Esteban Ocon (Alpine) finished eighth, ahead of Chinese Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo).
Alpine’s other Frenchman, Pierre Gasly, also entered the points, finishing tenth.
Verstappen now leads the World Cup with 170 points, 53 more than his Mexican teammate; while Alonso is still third in the contest, with 99 points. Sainz is still sixth, with 58 units.
In the Constructors’ World Championship, Red Bull is still clearly in the lead (with 287 points), but Mercedes (152) took second place from Aston Martin, which is now third, with 134.
The European tour of the championship -which will resume on the first weekend of July at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg (Styria), home of Austria-, will now be interrupted with the Canadian Grand Prix; that will be disputed within two fines of week.
SPORT
*With EFE