Rebuild. A dream, a team, a back. In less than a week we run fromother part of the world, Canada. There's no time to stop and pick up the pieces of what's broken, but we have to do it, and we have to get back up just like they did Charles e Lewis in Baku, albeit in different ways.
One is in the midst of his realization, and sees the opportunity to assert himself as one of his peers and former Kart rivals already did last year, Max Verstappen. The other, however, is 37 years old, 7 world championships and still has a lot to give. He has nothing to prove, but he is the ambassador of an important message, that is, getting up after every fall, rest after every blow, and then leave again.
In Baku there were those who had to stop immediately, those who instead carried the signs of a difficult race all the way to the checkered flag. All the withdrawals they occurred due to technical problems, which is more difficult to avoid than human error, and perhaps this is what surprised us.
Invisible enemies
We are used to seeing obvious human errors, both in driving and in strategies on the Azerbaijani track. But there is who instead, in Baku, fought with an invisible enemy, difficult to neutralize.
The mechanics of red they start folding the chairs, packing up everything there is, to get an advantage at work since next week we are already traveling to the other side of the world. It's over. And once again, earlier than expected. Before we can even say "I tried, but today we didn't have as much as our opponents". It is not the first time that the king of Saturday, Charles Leclerc, is found with a handful of flies on Sundays.
It's not the first time we find him sitting, leaning with his back against a wall to try to put the pieces back in place after a bad fall. A whole world that empties and disappears, for a soul in pain. Charles' dream today seems to fade into an illusion created by a wounded heart, broken in two, but rebuilt, endlessly. A love that is becoming a dangerous game and in which every occasion risks being the last, the one in which sooner or later you end up not feeling anything anymore. But even the biggest wound can be healed if treated in time.
Continue or stop?
However, there is another invisible enemy that leads to another type of pain, the physical one, which requires a longer healing time and a choice: continue to hurt yourself or stop?
Canada is an important stage for Lewis, an extra motivation to get up and get back on track. Lewis Hamilton at the end of the race he barely gets out of his W13 a more hostile companion than the others who accompanied him throughout his career. A series of continuous jolts, for 51 laps, upset him.
He could have finished the race early to preserve his health. 37 years make themselves felt and the Mercedes it is in all respects a terrible car to drive, and certainly not in the fight for the world championship. Some would even have understood it. In the fastest sections of the Baku track he couldn't even communicate with the team no matter how much he jumped.
We have never seen him so fragile, vulnerable. Or rather, we have never seen him get out of his car like this. Perhaps not even he expected all that pain that overwhelmed him at the end of the race given the approach he had for all 51 laps. We are used to seeing him jumping like a cricket, dancing alone in his car. We look at him, we watch his race and in an instant we seem to find ourselves in front of a young old man with a tired look and a broken back. That back that has supported the weight of the world for years and of battles that earned him 7 titles.
Charles and Lewis leave Baku with broken dreams, broken backs and only a week to rebuild them.
