(ESP-ENG) Emociones y choque de trenes se vivieron en Monza // Excitement and a train crash at Monza.
Hi friends, good vibes to all.
It was the weekend of one of the most historic and important prizes in Formula 1, the one that takes place at the Monza National Autodrom in Italy and where we expected to see another epic battle for the lead of the world championship between Verstappen and Hamilton, the thing is that it was not so and we ended up seeing one of the races with more ups and downs and surprises in recent months.
We are in an award where McLaren revived its great times taking the 1-2 of the podium with Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris respectively and a significant amount of points to consolidate third place over Ferrari in the competition for the best team. And all this started in the sprint race on Saturday where Bottas was the winner but due to an engine change he had to go to the last place leaving the Dutchman and the Australian in the first row.
Ricciardo's great victory on Sunday was not a product of chance, luck or circumstances that occur throughout the races, it was thanks to the excellent start that had the Australian who being second had the ability to overtake Verstappen to stay in first place throughout the race. On the other hand the current champion Lewis Hamilton had started in fourth position so his main task was to overtake Lando Norris, which throughout the weekend was a real headache for the British driver.
The truth is that McLaren's strategy throughout the race was very good because they decided to stop Ricciardo before everyone else on lap 23 to put him on hard tires and with them try to go to the end and finish the race. Red Bull did not plan to stop Max but he had no more tires to continue so they sent him to the pits in a disastrous stop of 11 seconds, there went the race and any chance of winning to the Dutchman.
Golden opportunity for Hamilton who was rubbing his hands because everything seemed to be in order for him to achieve another victory in Monza without any setback, as he had finally been able to overtake Norris. But everything changed in a matter of seconds when one of the most talked about and controversial accidents and crashes in recent years in F1 took place on the track.
It all started after Hamilton came out of the pit-lane after having put medium rubber tires and thus overtake Verstappen and materialize the triumph but just when Hamilton had to defend himself not only from Norris but also from Max. They reached the first corner or variant and that's when Max goes over the Mercedes driver and after some maneuvers the inevitable happened and the crash occurred. It was very similar to what happened at Silverstone with the difference that this time both drivers abandoned.
The investigation by the stewards resulted in a penalty for Verstappen of THREE positions for the next race in Russia at the end of September. The thing is that all this happened paved the way for another very interesting race with the McLaren, a Bottas who was coming back and a fight between Leclerc and Checo Perez.
That was how Ricciardo celebrated his victory after that Monaco prize in 2018 and also took the extra point by doing the fastest lap of the circuit. He was joined on the podium by, as I told you, his teammate Norris and in third place Valtteri Bottas after a crazy comeback. After this we have a classification a little more closed especially the fight for third place which is in the hands of Bottas with 141 points followed closely by Norris with 132. Ricciardo after his victory is placed eighth with 83 points.
Un premio con muchas sorpresas, polémicas y emociones. Veremos que nos trae dentro de 2 semanas el premio de Rusia.
A race with many surprises, controversies and emotions. We will see what Russia's grand prix will bring in 2 weeks.
¡Un abrazo a todos, nos leemos en la próxima!
Well friends that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
¡A hug to all, see you next time!