A pilot can be better known when analyzing his reaction in defensive maneuvers than in attacks. Or what is the same, it is easier to lose your nerves under the pressure of a rival, than when it is oneself that launches the offensive. In the case of Oscar Piastri, the Australian seems to drive with one hand and smoking a pure, regardless of whether he has to advance to, or if it is the Dutchman who throws the car to win the position. This last scenario is the one seen this Sunday in Montmeló, where, to accumulate his fifth victory of the season and continue expanding the hole in his favor at the head of the points table. Lando Norris signed the third double so far this course for McLaren, which made it clear that his car is the fastest of all, an impression corroborated in the circuit that best suits the thermometer to calibrate the level of competitiveness of the cars. The podium was closed by Charles Leclerc, who took advantage of the appearance of the security car in the absence of 11 laps for the end, to overcome Verstappen, whom the strategy played this time a bad pass. Fernando Alonso finished the ninth after the tenth, while Carlos Sainz did it on the 15th in a weekend to forget for Williams.
. Either to speak on the radio, in front of a microphone or on the track. In Montmeló, the young man of Melbourne did not enter the tremble when Verstappen was thrown his neck (third round), after the current champion made the thirteen fourteen to Norris at the time of the start. With the Red Bull in the Cogote, the leader of the contest stretched when it was necessary and in a single round generated a cushion of something more than a second, which replied outside the reach of the DRS. From that moment on, the race was played on the wall, as if it were a chess game. Aware of opponent’s speed, Red Bull’s strategists rethink Verstappen’s strategy, whom they stopped three times instead of the two ordinary to try to put him in the Gresca with the McLaren. However, Red Bull’s compass played this time a bad pass to Mad Maxwho ran out of soft rubber for a fourth stop in the workshops, as a consequence of the safety caused by the engine break of Kimi Antonelli.
With the car of the red buffalo brand footwear with the toughest compounds and the grump squad, Verstappen was absolutely sold already mercy of the pack of wolves that arrived behind, most of them with much softer tires. The first one, Leclerc, surpassed him in the straight straightman without Hasselt’s boy being able to do anything. With the second, George Russell, the tetracampeón dragged outstanding accounts, although that does not justify in any case the macacarado From Verstappen, who pounced against the Mercedes of the British when, on the radio, he had been ordered to give him the position for an immediately previous friction. One of those short circuits that, luckily, had not seen that of Red Bull for a long time, whom the commissioners did not take two turns to penalize with ten extra seconds, which took him from fifth place to the tenth. This tone output is nothing more than another proof of the fair that is Red Bull in contrast to McLaren. Especially that of Piastri, who follows his practically without flinching. He does not care that Norris or Verstappen attacks, if that means that he has them behind.
