the dutch max verstappen chained this Sunday his seventh straight victory in the Formula 1 and ensured the absolute dominance of Red Bull, threatened a day earlier with the pole position of lewis hamilton (Mercedes) in the classification of the Hungarian Grand Prix and at the award ceremony he was the victim of a blooper starring Lando Norris.
The two-time champion of the category added his ninth success out of eleven races held that year. The other two remained in the hands of the Mexican Sergio “Checo” Perezthe other driver of the Austrian team, who this Sunday occupied third place below the British Lando Norris (McLaren).
Exactly the second in Hungary sparked laughter when, from the podium, he tried to uncover the bottle of champagne and ended up breaking the winner’s trophy Verstappen.
With the victory and the fastest turn of the day, Verstappen He took 26 points from Hungary that deepen the leadership in the season with a distance of 110 points over his guard Perez, which means a virtual definition of the title in your favor.
Only a sporting catastrophe could deprive the Dutchman of the three-time championship with Red Bull, which established this Sunday the best streak in history for a team with 12 consecutive crowns.
The scoring positions at the Hungaroring were completed by the Australian Oscar Piastri (McLaren), the British George Russell (Mercedes), the Monegasque Charles Leclerc and the Spanish Carlos Sainz, from Ferrari plus the Spanish Fernando Alonso and the Canadian Lance Stroll, both with Aston Martin.
Between eleventh and seventeenth place came the Thai Alexander Albon (Williams), the Finnish Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), the Australian Daniel Ricciardo (AlphaTauri), the German Nico Hulkenberg (Haas), the Japanese Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri), the Chinese Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo) and the Danish Kevin Magnussen (Haas).
The American Logan Sargeant (Williams) and the French from the Alpine team, Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly, did not qualify.
The next race will be the Belgian Grand Prix, next Sunday, scheduled for 44 laps on the Spa-Francorchamps track. Verstappen has won there the last two years.
Source: Ambito
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