Only a week later, on the same track and with the same cars, the Styrian GP show was a sad imitation that we were able to enjoy during the Austrian GP. The lack of incentives, as always, favored Lewis Hamilton , absolute dominator of the situation to lead the first double of Mercedes. The podium, too far for Carlos Sainz , was completed by Max Verstappen , who only had the pleasure of a spectacular move on the outside against Valtteri Bottas , still at the top of the leaderboard.

Just 24 hours after his superb classification in the deluge, Sainz started third, but he could only finish in ninth place, with the small consolation of an extra point for the fast lap (1: 05.619). The catastrophic mistake with the pistol of one of his mechanics and the mechanical problems in his MCL-35 during the final stretch relegated the Spanish much more than was desirable.

McLaren's honor was put to good use by Lando Norris , fifth at the finish after another amazing last lap, where he overcame a Sergio Pérez in serious trouble. A pity for the ardent Mexican, who will continue to challenge the cars of Woking and Ferrari for command of the middle area of ​​the grid. Of course, not much more can be expected from Scuderia in this World Cup.

Ocon's Abandonment

As soon as the red light went out, on the way up to the famous hairpin of Turn 3, Charles Leclerc made an unforgivable mistake inside that left Sebastian Vettel out of action . One of its wheels smashed the German's rear wing, which did a lot to get the car to the garage. Leclerc also had to pass through the box, with a damaged flat bottom. When the safety car had completed its task, at the start of the sixth lap, the two Ferraris were out of action.

Ahead, everything was solved with an insulting ease for Mercedes. From the initial acceleration, Hamilton was unreachable for the rest. Bottas was quite free of Sainz, and Verstappen had to resign himself to revealing the days of Alexander Albon . A few meters behind, Daniel Ricciardo considered himself faster than Esteban Ocon , but the strange atmosphere in Renault was accentuated again with the early abandonment of the Frenchman.

The only crucial moment on Sunday was solved without much ado on lap 25, when Verstappen entered like a fury to risk it all, removing the soft tires to mount the intermediates. Actually, Red Bull was trying to protect itself from the undercut , but Mercedes didn't even flinch. Toto Wolff's engineers let a couple of turns pass before calling Hamilton, while keeping Bottas in front.

Five lethal seconds

Meanwhile, Sainz's plans were cut short on Lap 33, when a blunder on the left rear wheel delayed his passing by five seconds. Such a disaster ruined the plan throughout the weekend and when the pieces were ordered Carlos fell to eighth place. The desperate gestures at McLaren spoke for themselves.

Wounded in pride, the man from Madrid threw himself at Pérez, with the tires fresh from the oven. However, his beautiful maneuver at Turn 4 was answered by a master movement on the outside of Turn 6. "Did you like it?" The Mexican was licking his radio with his track engineer. His dry value, comparable to that exhibited by Verstappen against Bottas on lap 67, was the best on Sunday. The only notable thing about a bland Styrian GP.

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