AUSTIN (USA) (ITALPRESS) – Max Verstappen is the absolute protagonist of Austin’s Saturday. The four-time world champion first wins the sprint, then gives the bis in qualifying to take the pole position (the 47th in career, the seventh season) also for the Sunday race of the United States Grand Prix, the 19th round of the Formula One World Championship. Love McLaren, encouraging signs from Ferrari.
In the sprint, which was staged in the late Texana morning, the Red Bull driver won a valuable success in the title key, taking off the first box on the starting grid, regulating George Russell (Mercedes) after a short and intense body. Verstappen thus earned eight points on the McLarens of Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris, staged at the first corner in a carambola that also involved Nico Hulkenberg (Kick Sauber) but judged as a simple race accident by the commissioners. To complete the podium Carlos Sainz on Williams, in front of the two Ferraris of Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc, respectively in fourth and fifth position.
A few hours later, in qualifying, Verstappen repeats: 1’32′′′510 time in Q3, in the first and only attempt, which allows him to win another pole. Lando Norris, who tries to save McLaren’s day: However, the British accuses almost three tenths of Verstappen, although for just six thousandths it denies the first row to a found Leclerc. Third time for the Ferrari player that precedes Russell and teammate Hamilton, fifth ahead of a Piastri perhaps still conditioned by what happened in the sprint and slower than 0′′574 than Verstappen. Good seventh time for Andrea Kimi Antonelli, already at points in the sprint (eighth position) while Hulkenberg (Kick Sauber) does not repeat Friday’s exploit and ends in sixth row.
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Verstappen show in Austin, Ferrari growing
