All right the show, the show, the drama, but in the final laps there was more chaos than the uproar made by the escort who brought riders, team principals, wives, children and stepchildren under the sumptuous podium to Miami. And let's face it, we've all felt just as embarrassed as Charles wearing his football helmet to the awards ceremony, when we compared the race results with our top 5 at Fanta. Unfortunately, we have reached the moment of conclusions, after weeks of hype and social content at Miami Vice. Ladies and Gentlemen here are the Tops and Flops of the Miami Grand Prix.
Top: Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc
Max e Charles they are like two delicious ice creams. You take one and after 5 minutes you regret not taking the other. You don't know who will be able to do better because depending on them they would be engaged in a fight as long as the entire duration of the GP. But unfortunately for Charles, and fortunately for Max, today they did not have the same machines.
La Red Bull she showed insecurity at the beginning of the weekend. An insecurity swept away after just a few laps in the race. Against the Ferrari, solid over the course of the weekend, experienced major problems in managing the tyres, especially with Leclerc, which cost him the first overtaking by Verstappen after just a few laps. Once the reliability problems have been removed, Max has a very balanced car, the result of a well-chosen project and constant updates, something that is still a little lacking in the Ferrarieven though they are different single-seaters.
These two prodigy boys are the past – even if recent – the future and the present of Formula 1 and now the classification divides them by 19 points. It will be a tight and sweaty world championship, but we can't help but be happy about it because they are giving us a beautiful and unprecedented duel that we hope will last forever.
Top: Esteban Ocon
Who would have ever thought that the Frenchman who was so unlucky in qualifying would have come back up to eighth position, also winning the title of "best sky pilot"? Esteban Ocon after yesterday's accident he brought home a great race and important points also considering that none of the McLaren it ended in Top 10. The last race, the one at Imola had given back to Fantasy manager which they have deployed Or with a rather small score. that he is backOr with early season?
Top: Carlos Sainz
May all the dose of bad luck be used up Sainz, mixed with decidedly avoidable mistakes, we really hope so. After the excellent placement in qualifying, the Spanish rider also took the third podium of the season with the red, making concrete what many had feared, namely defending himself without thinking of a war at home. Also penalized by a too long Pit Carlos he also had the opportunity to confront several times with Perez, the Tasmanian devil at home Red Bull, forcefully slamming the door in his face. On a podium having two riders denotes concreteness and that's what Ferrari is showing, despite the controversy over the last two races. But we must not forget where it starts from Ferrari and what he rebuilt in a couple of years, where others, like Mercedes they seem to be lost.
Flop: Gasly, Alonso, Magnussen. but also others
So let's get to the Flops, because in 10 minutes the scenario has changed drastically a Miami, and not because of the rain that didn't arrive in the end, but because of another cataclysm that bears the name of a three-headed monster composed of Gasly, Alonso and Schumacher. What they saved up front they gave to the rear and testify to it i DNF and penalty inflicted a little on everyone back there.
Fernando Alonso he has never been a docile little lamb in his attacks but today he wanted to dare a little too much. First contact with Hamilton, at the start, a contact which fortunately didn't damage either of the two drivers. He had less luck gasly torpedoed by the good Fernando who thus took 5 seconds of penalty. That gesture started a series of chain situations that began with a potentially dangerous contact between gasly e Norris which called into question the Safety car. Another serious contact involved the only two German riders on the grid Hag e Schumacher, great friends off the track. The young pilot of the Haas he was leading a decent race before the counter overtaking attempt on Hag, which had to be surrendered.
A chaotic, no-sense and at times satisfying debut…a bit like rain. We were expecting a crazy race and this one gave us such trivial contacts that perhaps they wouldn't even be contemplated in Formula 3. With well 5 pilots retired and several penalties Miami is placed almost in front Jeddah as for disappointments.
Bye Miami! In two weeks we go to Barcelona!
