(ESP-ENG) Hungría y sus grandes novelas.
Hello friends, good vibes to all.
What happened yesterday at the Hungaroring circuit was surreal, it had been a long time since I had seen so much drama, uncertainty, bad vibes, bad decisions and above all very high temperaments. As has been happening Formula 1, compared to previous years, is a little more competitive, that overwhelming dominance of Verstappen or as at the time of Hamilton a few years ago is not being seen this year in fact there are a couple of statistics that confirm it. The first is that we have three races in a row where Max has not won, this has not been seen since 2021 and the second is that throughout the season we already have 7 different champions in 13 awards.
The uncertainty I was talking about at the beginning is given precisely because of this, because of how even the competition is becoming, there are teams that want to win at all costs and there are drivers who do not like to lose and all this causes that many times things do not go as expected. As it is already known, Red Bull is not going through its best moment, Checo Perez is suffering an important crisis of confidence which has made Verstappen have to ride the team on his shoulder, and there are several times in which the Mexican has not even been able to finish the pole position due to some kind of accident or withdrawal of the same.
While the McLaren people have been doing quite well, until yesterday, in terms of knowing how to position themselves ahead of RB with quite competitive cars, with improvements that apparently are working well and of course with two drivers who I believe are destined to be great in this sport. This started on Saturday's qualifying where we saw both McLarens flying on track, Norris took the pole followed closely by Piastri, Max was third, Sainz fourth and Hamilton fifth, a Briton who seems to be going through a second wind before leaving Mercedes and yes, he is being seen with a little more confidence and poise, as if he was lacking that lately on the tracks.
The race began and everything seemed to indicate that we would be facing just another one of the bunch. The funny thing is that in the first corner we would see things that would be more common later. In principle the prize was boring, we will not fool ourselves, a Piastri doing a great race taking advantage of Norris again went wrong at the time of departure while Verstappen was doing the same, trying to make these orange arrows do not get away so much. Being a circuit where it is very difficult to overtake everything fell on the strategies and the high temperatures on the track made them have to pit at least 2 to 3 times. All this was the root of the drama lived in Hungary yesterday.
On the one hand we have McLaren making a nonsense of trying to unnecessarily pit their drivers against each other. Piastri came out better at the start, did a better race, better pace, in terms of deserving the race was his but then these guys come and try to make an undercut between themselves disguised as they wanted to protect themselves from Hamilton who certainly came with a good pace. This was not understood at all, this was realized by the drivers themselves, as it is obvious, and by the fans who did not look favorably on this. Friction began over the radio, where McLaren, seeing that this had been a disaster, tried to remedy things and asked Norris to hand over the lead to Piastri. The way they managed this was pitiful, both Oscar did not deserve to win like that and on the other hand they made it look like Lando was the bad guy. If they want to get results there are many things that have to change within McLaren's top management.
On the other hand, Verstappen saw how McLaren, in spite of everything, always anticipated the RB at pit stops, they did it on a couple of occasions, something that an irate Max didn't understand. We know about the Dutchman's temperament but yesterday was rude and disrespectful, he was not himself, he always complained about problems with the car and the strategy and this caused him to collide with Hamilton with whom he was having a battle. The most surreal thing about this is that Max wanted to blame the Mercedes driver to which Lambiase, Max's engineer, told him that saying such things over the radio was a childish thing to do. Honestly, it had been a long time since there had been so much drama and tension on the teams' radios; this obviously made the race take on a different color.
Finally Oscar Piastri wins his first race in Formula 1, a young driver who is extremely mature and intelligent for his age. Norris finished second and Hamilton got his 200th podium, finishing third. Verstappen was fifth and Checo was able to score a podium finish in seventh place. With the 1-2 McLaren overtook Ferrari in the constructors' championship to take second place, 51 points behind Red Bull. The next race will be this week in Belgium, the mythical Spa-Francorchamps Circuit which always, or almost always gives something to talk about.
¡Un abrazo a todos, nos leemos en la próxima!
Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
¡Hugs to all, see you next time!
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No ví la carrera, pendiente como estaba de los actos de entronización al salón de la fama del béisbol, de la clase 2024.
Hoy veré la repetición, parece que ha estado emocionante..!
Gracias por traer tus contenidos al feed.
Saludos.
La carrera en si fue un poco de lo mismo pero como dije, las radios estuvieron interesantes. Nadie se guardó nada y dejaron ver dramas innecesarios. Pero si, vale la pena ver esa novela.
Muchas gracias, saludos!!
La F1 tuvo sus cosas interesantes, pero el drama jugó un papel relevante en Hungría. Me está gustando lo que estoy viendo en las últimas carreras, el espectáculo ha mejorado respeto al año pasado y lo que vimos en las primeras carreras de la temporada.
Saludos.
Somos dos. El solo hecho de que tengamos 7 ganadores diferentes ya nos dice que la Fórmula 1 está cada vez más competitiva. El drama solo fue un aderezo de lo que nos falta por ver.
Saludos amigo!
Confieso que tengo varios días o varias carreras sin poder ver. Pero gracias a tu publicación me estoy actualizando un poco con tu excelente publicación
Gracias a ti por leer, amigo!
Saludos!
Realmente fue una carrera delirante donde el show pasó más tiempo en las comunicaciones de radio que en la pista.
Max está perdiendo la paciencia en la misma proporción en que su Red Bull pierde la ventaja de rendimiento, una pena porque si no calma hasta puede perder el campeonato.
Los beneficiarios de una mayor competitividad deberíamos ser los espectadores, aún estamos esperando que esto se concrete en su totalidad.
Saludos @javyeslava.photo
Max cuando las cosas no les salen bien por lo general pierde los estribos y se vuelve muy imprudente al volante, la muestra de eso es el choque con Hamilton. Supongo que será presión extra por lo que dices de que los demás, en este caso McLaren, están siendo mucho más rápidos que ellos y que el Checo Pérez tampoco está punteando como debería por lo que toda la carga está en él.
Veremos que pasa en Bélgica.
Un abrazo!
Checo Pérez no está puntuando, punteando tampoco, hace muchas carreras que el pobre ni siquiera llega a la tercera sección de la clasificación y la punta de la carrera le queda muy lejos.
Perdón por la aclaración, pero así es como se usa cada una de esas dos palabras, solo para evitar que se entienda mal lo que deseas trasmitir.
Saludos @javyeslava.photo