• Chronicle.Hamilton rolls in Spa and Alonso smiles from the sofa
  • Sainz.The McLaren leaves him lying before starting

While Lewis Hamilton lived their particular party mode by the old Spa circuit, levitating as usual aboard his armored Mercedes, Carlos Sainz burned inside, watching, dress street and in the McLaren garage, how your partner Lando Norris is he was eager to get another six points (7th) for his collection. His orange mask hid much of the anger generated by that frustrating abandonment in the training lap, just half an hour from starting.

“It is the second year in a row that I have not even started my career at Spa and the third year that I do not go out here, because it also happened to me in 2015 (with Toro Rosso). It was frustrating, ”lamented the Spanish rider on the deserted paddock of the Belgian track, minutes after Hamilton dealt another fatal blow to the championship. An engine failure in his MCL35 led to a problem with the exhausts, which forced him to land early.

Another trip in his journey through this winding 2020 World Cup full of potholes. Everything has happened to Sainz. In Austria, the second round of the course, he lost eight seconds in an incomprehensible pitstop, which ruined an exciting race, as he started from third position on the grid. Then came Hungary, where another untimely stop blurred his options. From Silverstone , twice (and for different reasons), he left empty. He first blew a tire when he was flying fourth and, on the next visit, he was lost again in the pits. "It is curious because this engine was working well and does not seem to last," he added before a possible penalty in Italy for having to change the engine.

Yesterday's pinch was, if possible, more painful than the previous ones. For the third time in the season, he was left without a score, only that it happened on his fetish circuit: Spa-Francorchamps. There, six years ago (2014), being little more than a child, he began to grab his first wheel in Formula 1. It was after winning the two World Series by Renault races that were held one weekend. That double propelled him towards a title that was an essential requirement to be able to have options to sit in the Toro Rosso seat. Curiously, his great rival then was Pierre Gasly , declared the best of the race, who yesterday finished eighth with his Alpha Tauri.

The Renault show

The third zero of the season for the Spanish driver contrasted with the smile of Daniel Ricciardo , his successor at Renault and, from the next World Championship, heir to his McLaren. The Australian became the fashionable name in Spa thanks to his formidable ranking (4th) and his fight on the asphalt to climb to the podium. Because the French car ended up giving Max Verstappen its breath in the last laps, whose tires threatened to leave him lying again. Ricciardo (and also Ocon, 5th) brought a smile to Fernando Alonso with that fast lap that earned him an additional point on his account. Quite the opposite that happens at Ferrari, Sainz's next destination, where they drift aimlessly at the gates of Monza, the temple of the Italian team. Neither Vettel nor Leclerc managed to score.

The silent Spa saw another blow from Hamilton, which is no longer news. A race against himself, in which only his right front tire quickened his pulse. Hence, he caressed him like a child, just to assure what is his fifth conquest of the year. The 89th of his career. That is, before the end of the summer, the Briton could have reached that record of triumphs of Michael Schumacher (91), which not so long ago seemed like a record for eternity. In Eau Rouge, where his idol Ayrton Senna claimed to see God, Lewis gave one more bow to a conquest that is already inevitable: his seventh crown.

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