Formula 1: McLaren CEO Zak Brown has photo bombed the Ferrari celebrations after Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc both finished on the podium.
McLaren CEO crashes Ferrari party | 01:34If you’re not happy for Carlos Sainz , you either have no heart or work for Red Bull Racing.He was fast from Friday practice. He dominated qualifying, setting two times good enough for pole position in Q3.In the race he beat Max Verstappen in a straight fight. He had the pace to comfortably beat both teammate Charles Leclerc and also Lando Norris .
All the Spaniard’s victories have been hard fought, but it isn’t that he had to see off first Verstappen and then Leclerc and Sainz to win that made this one special Sainz revealed he’d had a significant contingent of family and friends with him for the occasion, and in Spanish-speaking Mexico, it made the entire occasion more meaningful.
“I’ve been driving well and I made it stick, and you cannot imagine how happy and proud I am right now.” That was the case last week in Austin, where his understanding of the driving guidelines and the precedence of making the apex first beyond all other indicators ensured he held third place ahead of the penalised Norris.His driving already in the spotlight, he was guaranteed intense scrutiny when he pushed Norris off the track in defence of third place and then ambitiously attempted to re-pass him off the track at turn 8.
The Red Bull Racing principal printed off a selection of Norris telemetry data comparing his approach to turn 4 during the lap 10 incident with his fastest lap of the race, claiming it proved that the Briton was never going to make the corner fairly. He didn’t feel the same about Verstappen at turn 8, however.
‘Today I think was another level on ,” he said. “I was ahead of Max in the braking zone, past the apex. I am avoiding crashing today. This is the difference. Even without the penalty he wouldn’t have been fast enough to prevent Ferrari from dumping Red Bull Racing to third in the constructors championship.It’s an almost unbelievable twist. This is the team that attained new, surely unreachable heights for domination in a single season last year, winning every race but one.
“The biggest problem today — and of course what I worry about — is the race pace, which was really not good and something that we need to analyse, because even without those penalties we had no chance at all to fight up front,” Verstappen said.But the team is running out of time to find a solution. With only four rounds remaining and Ferrari on a run, it will take more than returning to mere equilibrium to rescue second — never mind first — in the championship.
His offence was an unusual one — starting too far forwards in his grid spot. It’s the sort of error a driver of his experience — and a driver in desperate need of a good, clean race — shouldn’t be making.He became embroiled in a battle with Liam Lawson for 10th place. The Kiwi, knowing that he’s competing to take the Mexican’s seat, gave absolutely no quarter, beating him in a side-by-side duel.
Bizarrely he blamed Lawson for his wasted day, lashing out at the Kiwi Lawson by claiming he’s not up to being in Formula 1.. “He needs to be a bit more humble.“When you come to Formula 1, you’re obviously very hungry and so on, but you have to be respectful off-track and on-track.
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