2023-07-31 00:18:07
Unstoppable Verstappen overtakes teammate Perez to win Belgian GP
Although the five-place penalty for overuse of the gearbox posed some obstacles for him, the unstoppable Max Verstappen relied on a good start, the unmatched speed of the Red Bull Racing car and his own superior strength in the Belgian GP. In just 17 laps After that, he got rid of Charles Leclerc on the first lap and took the lead from his first teammate Sergio Perez, rushed to the checkered flag, and finally won eight consecutive victories with an advantage of more than 22 seconds, the tenth victory of this season.
The weather conditions of the previous two days were very different. The Belgian GP started under cloudy and sometimes sunny conditions. Although there was a brief rain later, it was not so severe that it was necessary to replace the rainy weather tires. It did not have a great impact on the drivers’ strategy big impact.
Leclerc, who started from the pole position, successfully maintained the lead at the first turn, but he was overtaken by Perez, who was driving the extremely fast RB19 car in the straight line, and lost the lead in the Kemmel section.
Carlos Sainz and Oscar Piastri collided while trying to compete with Lewis Hamilton for third. The McLaren driver’s suspension and the Ferrari driver’s right side box were damaged. Piastri then fell sharply and eventually stopped the car and retired.
Verstappen, who started from sixth, not only survived the high-risk hand-to-hand fight in the first turn, but also surpassed Sainz to get two positions before the fifth turn to advance to fourth, and Fernando Alonso, who started the race from ninth, also Kemmel got rid of Lando Norris in the straight section and rose to sixth, while another Mercedes AMG driver, George Russell, who was squeezed to the outside by Verstappen at the first turn, slipped from eighth to out of ten.
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Unstoppable Verstappen overtakes teammate Perez to win Belgian GP
Due to the damage to the car, Sainz quickly couldn’t keep up with the opponents in front and hindered the drivers behind. Since he was overtaken by Alonso on the 4th lap, his ranking continued to decline, while Lance Stroll and Russell were at the end of the 5th lap. Killed Lando Norris one after another to enter the points circle.
On the 6th lap, it came to the Kemmel straight section. Verstappen used the exaggerated speed of the Red Bull car after turning on the DRS to lead Hamilton into the podium range, and very quickly came behind Leclerc after three laps, and killed the Ferrari driver at the same position to come to the second place .
Then Verstappen started chasing Perez. He eliminated his teammate’s lead of about 2.6 seconds in eight laps, and once again used DRS to easily overtake on the Kemmel straight section to take the lead. Then it began to rain on the field, but it didn’t last long, and the road didn’t become very wet. Some drivers who had been on the field and wanted to take advantage of the time difference when everyone had to change tires in rainy weather were honest. On the spot, I hurried back to Pit to change dry tires.
After passing his teammate for the lead, no one could threaten him, Verstappen kept closing the gap on everyone until the checkered flag was seen, winning the final race before the summer break by 22.305 seconds. Although Perez, who was driving the same car, couldn’t keep up with his teammates, he was still able to get rid of all the opponents of other teams by more than ten seconds, and successfully won the championship and runner-up for the Red Bull team again.
Although the strength of the Ferrari car has improved recently, Leclerc can start from a more advanced position here, but the speed of the official race is still a lot behind the Red Bull car, and the Monaco driver can only walk alone in the third position. , but finally achieved the best result outside of the Red Bull driver on the podium.
Unstoppable Verstappen overtakes teammate Perez to win Belgian GP
A similar situation also happened to the Mercedes team, but the Spa-Francochamps track is more suitable for the Ferrari car. Hamilton, who has been running alone in the fourth position, ended up in this position at the end of the race, and he also passed the race at the end of the race Extra Pitstop, for a point for the fastest lap.
The recent development has not achieved the expected results. The Aston Martin team, which has declined in relative competitiveness, relied on veteran Alonso to give full play to the racing strength and under conditions that are more favorable to them, they won the fifth seat.
Although the number of times and the tire configuration are different in the choice of pit stop strategy, most drivers adopt a two-stop strategy. The only one who can make progress by relying on the one-stop strategy is Russell who slipped down several positions at the beginning. Got sixth place.
Norris, who finished the first stop very early on the fifth lap, was stuck in the car formation for the rest of the race and did not perform well. In the end, he only finished the race in the same seventh place as when he started. Esteban Ocon of the Alpine team won the eighth place thanks to his good initial performance and a more reasonable pit stop strategy.
Another one-stop strategy to score points is Lance Stroll, who started the race from tenth and only benefited from Piastri’s retirement to finish ninth. And it was AlphaTauri’s Kakuda Yuki who scored the last point in the Belgian GP.
Unstoppable Verstappen overtakes teammate Perez to win Belgian GP
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