That Melbourne is popularly known as the city of the four stations is due to days like this Sunday, in which one must carry with him practically an entire suitcase of clothes to go and remove garments as the day progresses. This label is the perfect metaphor to describe the Australian Grand Prix that opened the Formula 1 World Cup, a race turned into an authentic corrective as a result of the rain, as unstable as the nerves of the parents of Lando Norris, who were about to give them a nerve attack. The British knew how to make the advantage with which McLaren starts the course, although it is also true that he suffered more than initially expected to celebrate the fifth triumph of his career.
The storm that altered the test recalled the cards up to three times and encouraged the cotarro and especially to Max Verstappen, a unique competitive animal, a real extraterrestrial with a steering wheel in his hands, someone capable of carrying a car significantly inferior to that of his rival and friend even beyond logic, to become a jackal to the hunt of his prey, that one that already zamped with potatoes last year. The podium was completed by George Russell because he knew how to keep calm in the last 15 laps, when the sky broke to release a water curtain that caused many to panic. Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz left as a result of two accidents in which Aston Martin and Williams, one of the biggest attractions of this winter and that Alex Albon was able to take to the fourth place. In the case of the Madrid, a problem in the gearbox caused a trallazo that projected him against the wall during the first appearance of the ‘Safety’.
Although the passage in front of the car of the Grove team (Great Britain) was seen to come, no one could calculate that the stride was so gigantic as to be able to overcome the Ferrari. In his first performance in the monkey of the ‘Scuderia’, Lewis Hamilton showed that he needs time to adapt to the red cackle and Riccardo Adami, who guides him from the wall. The Maranello brand threw the house out the window to get the most universal icon that exists in the world of races, unable to make a clear overtaking or put the nose to anyone. Hamilton is far from the version that is expected of him, and even more than the plane in which the McLaren and Verstappen, who play in another league.
Norris insists having learned from what happened last season, in which he could not optimize the virtues of a prototype that was superior to the rest from the middle of the calendar unfortunately of the Woking structure (Great Britain), which could not take the title of pilots and that had to ‘conform’ with that of builders. The British square a perfect Sunday in a maze hugged by walls and full of traps. Like the wet grass that caught Oscar Piastri (return 44 of 57) while the Australian circulated comfortably the second, ahead of Verstappen and behind Norris, when the chaparrón occurred that shake his squad again and that prevented a double of McLaren that seemed sung.
Piastri skated where his partner did not, the first leader of the contest that is not Verstappen in 1089 days, the longest streak in the history of the contest. “It was very hard, very stressful, with Max pushing behind my back. Everything has gone from, but we succeed in decisions and ended up taking the race, ”summarized the winner of this first assault of a scheduled combat to a total of 24.” We have learned from our mistakes. I did not make any mistakes, and I suppose I can take some credit for it. I know what I am capable, ”Norris settled.
