The Spaniard Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), who won the British Grand Prix this Sunday, the tenth of the Formula 1 World Championship, which was held at the Silverstone circuit; and in this way he achieved his first victory in the queen category of motorsports, signed the thirty-third of Spain in the queen category, nine years after the last one achieved by the Asturian double world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), author of the others 32.
Sainz, of 27 years old, who is entering his eighth season in F1, his second at Ferrari, signed , in his race number 150, his first victory in the premier class, in which he added his twelfth podium.
The previous Spanish victory, Alonso’s thirty-second, took place at the Spanish Grand Prix, in Montmeló (Barcelona), on 12 May 2013, when the double Asturian world champion was also in Ferrari, the team that thanks to Sainz celebrated its third win of the season this Sunday.
Sainz won ahead of the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) -who, after falling to the bottom from the grid, starred in the comeback of the race- and seven-time English world champion Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who finished second and third, respectively; in a race with a crazy ending – which was interrupted at the beginning for almost an hour, with a red flag; and in which there was a safety car that was key in the outcome – the circuit that hosted, in 1950, the first race of the history of Formula One.
The talented rider from Madrid won big, starting from pole position and setting the fastest lap In race; and in his number one test 150 in F1, apart from signing his first victory, he raised 12 his list of podiums. By becoming the winner number 55 in the history of the queen category.
With this triumph -the thirty-third for Spain, nine years after the last of the double world champion Fernando Alonso (Alpine), author of the others 32- Sainz rose to fourth place in the World Cup, with 127 points; to 54 from the leader, the Dutchman Max Verstappen (Red Bull); who finished seventh this Sunday.
Alonso finished fifth, behind the Monegasque Charles Leclerc, Sainz’s teammate at Ferrari; who was fourth.
The Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren) finished sixth, just ahead of ‘Mad Max’, who leads the World Cup with 150 points, 32 more than his teammate ‘Checo’ Pérez and with 43 an advantage over Leclerc.
The German Mick Schumacher (Haas), the son of the ‘Kaiser’, achieved the first points of his F1 career by finishing eighth, one place ahead of his compatriot, the four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel (Aston Martin), who celebrated his thirtieth fifth birthday with ninth place in the final.
Dane Kevin Magnussen (Haas) also entered the points, finishing tenth in the to the mythical English track.
The next event, the Austrian Grand Prix, will be held next weekend at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Styria.
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