After five races without podiums, Charles brings out a capital test and returns to success after three months: “It was necessary to do it, to show everyone that we have the pace and can fight until the end”. Verstappen: “I never had the chance to attack the Ferrari driver”
After five races, sebnza podium, “a small disaster”, he defined them himself, Charles Leclerc not only found the steps, but climbed them all, back to the top, to the victory he was missing from Melbourne, the third GP of the season, three exactly months ago (March 10). A success that Ferrari in Austria had been missing for 19 years, in the Red Bull fiefdom, on the circuit that bears his name. A clear, peremptory victory: with three overtaking three over rival Max Verstappen, two of which at Remus where the most ruinous (for Charles) body-to-body between the two in Formula 1 was consumed three years ago. a certain symbolism in today’s victory. “It was a great race,” he says. “Complicated by the accelerator problems in the final: it was the pedal that gave me bizarre sensations: before I didn’t pull it up, then it didn’t go all the way. A victory that was necessary: seeing that we have the pace tells us that we can fight until in the end. It was very nice. ” Also because on the front of the classification the pace was only 7 points, but in terms of morale, at the Verstappen-Marko-Mateschitz home, it is a great cure-all. Now Max has 208 points, Charles 170, he has recovered just seven, but for the beauty of how he has recovered them they seem a lot more.
Laconic Verstappen
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Laconic Max Verstappen, second: “It was a complicated day. With all the tire compounds, I never had the grip to attack Charles. But second place is still decent. Nice to do it in front of all this public in orange is always beautiful “.