Marko Hanželic
Racing Sunday in the US state capital Teksas the weather started in a similar style as in the past two days. Just before the start, he took care of a few shows, always entertaining Shaquille O'Neal, but for him in the team garage Alpha Tauri they didn’t have time as they tried to fix the problem with drive unit on a Gasly race car.
He did best at the start Lewis Hamilton, which led to the first turn as the leader. Max Verstappen this time, however, he gave up and drove off the track so that there was no touching and no collision, and at the same time the Dutchman almost lost his place against a teammate Perez.
If there were no problems at the beginning of the column, there were a few more at the back, where both Canadians were involved, Stroll in Latifs, so the first one spun and the second one had to visit the pits where his damaged nose of a racing car was replaced. They also turned into the pits at the very beginning Or with in mazepin, the first due to damage to the front wing, the second due to a damaged wheel. They both continued on the hard compound tires. From the very beginning, the commissioners caused some excitement with warnings for driving off the track, and in the initial part of the race, in addition to the already mentioned Latifi, he also turned around. Alonso.
In the tenth lap, he also turned into the pits Verstappen, who tried to surprise with an undercut Hamilton. The Briton turned into the pits three laps later when the third-place finisher also turned into them Perez. Another Mercedes driver, Valtteri Bottas, and both team racers Aston Martin they were the only three not yet wrapped up in the pits. He has already finished the race in the meantime Pierre Gasly, which failed its last clamp.
In the thirteenth round, we saw a duel of veterans for the thirteenth place he is from Raikkönen came out the winner, Alonso however, he then overtook his teammate off the track Giovinazzi, which forced him to leave the city back.
There wasn’t much going on on the track in the middle of the race, but we saw a short phase virtual safety car due to the work lying on the track, the monotony was broken at Red Bullu, as they were called to the pits a second time Verstappenwhile Hamilton persisted on the track for the next eight laps and lagged behind the Dutchman after a stop a good eight seconds, but the idea that it will end up with significantly less worn tires at the very end.
In the last part of the race it was British filed a hunt for The Dutch and reduced the backlog from round to round. In the meantime, both drivers of the team resigned Alpine, onwards Or with, then again Alonso, both due to technical problems, and before the end of the race he lost a point to Alfa Romeo by spinning Kimi Räikkönen. Hamilton came just behind in the last two rounds Verstappen, but he could not seriously threaten him.
The third was at the end Perez, followed by tenth place Leclerc, Ricciardo, Bottas, Sainz, Norris, Tsunoda in Hag.
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