Ferrari feared Red Bull’s top speed, the signs were also there on the eve and were promptly confirmed. Despite the red front row on Saturday, the shotgun Leclerc-Sainz who had loaded the team, well aware, however, that the race would have been another story. Max Verstappen he began to win immediately, from the start, from that angry sprint to get back up from the second row and overtake Sainz who was skating lightly, the first act of a race that will sculpt the Dutchman’s name as the first winner of the Miami GP. He reaffirmed the success of him, the world champion, after the safety car that brought Leclerc back on him, giving life to a battle in the last ten laps that ended in his favor. With Leclerc second and Sainz third, Ferrari is alive and continues to dream of the World Championship: combative, like the two drivers who showed up on the podium wearing an American football helmet.
The classification of the drivers’ world championship
The Miami GP report cards: Verstappen is perfection, the Ferrari mechanics are too wrong
by Stefano Backpack
08 Maggio 2022
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A special, brand new grand prix made brilliant by the Vip frame who closely followed the race, from David Beckham to the sisters Serena e Venus Williams, and Michael Jordan a Tom Brady, but also Shaun Mendes in the world of pop e Paris Hilton in glamor. Ferrari wanted to win in front of the American public, struggled with a series of fast laps from Charles Leclerc, but Verstappen was more comfortable in the very fast straights and in managing the tires.
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What he failed to Sainz at the start, keep behind Verstappeninstead managed to Leclerc, which however saw his advantage erode as the laps went by. From the second and 4 of the fifth lap, the eighth has already gone down to less than a second. Prologue of what happens on the ninth round, with Verstappen now glued to Leclerc in the curves that introduce to the straight of the start, the sharp overtaking inside, the braking in view of the curve 1 to bend the extreme resistance of Leclerc. On lap 13 there are already 2 ” 5 between the two, which rise over three and a half seconds, and Sainz who in certain passages has the same rhythm as the Monegasque in the duel with Perez for third place. Leclerc he does not give up and is able to set the first of his fastest laps, to then dive into the pit stop at lap 25. The operation is 3 ” 2 seconds to complete the operation, Charles restarts from fourth place, two laps later he returns Verstappen who responds with a 2 ” 4 pit stop that raises him immediately behind Sainz. He too is ready to return to the pits, for a difficult stop in which the right front tire causes a slowdown.
The ranking realigns with a pit stop each and Verstappen first with 7 ” 5 on Leclerce Sainz still ahead of Perez. Leclerc prods the Dutchman with fast laps, but the situation remains unchanged until the accident. It happens on lap 41 that gasly has problems, you lengthen your trajectory, you get back on track when it arrives Norris, which passes it inside and hits the front left tire of the AlphaTauri fully, damaging the McLaren that turns and gets stuck on the track. The safety car causes a pit race (Russell among others) and restores balance to a race that seemed crystallized. In fact, when the GP restarts on lap 47, ten from the end, Leclerc is really glued to Verstappen and at one point it is only four tenths. But the world champion does not lose his temper, and in the last few laps he re-establishes the distances (3 ” 7 at the finish line). While Sainz cunningly responds to an attack by Perez which overtakes it but extends on curve 1 allowing recovery. Fifth and sixth Mercedes, with Russell before Hamilton after taking advantage of the error of Bottas which touched the wall, leaving room for the two. Two Ferraris on the podium anyway, while Verstappen he is escorted to the podium by the chips in motion to sublimate the American myth that this Grand Prix embodies to perfection.
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