Max Verstappen claimed his seventh win of the F1 2024 season at the Spanish Grand Prix with Lando Norris second and Lewis Hamilton third.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen claimed his seventh victory of the F1 2024 season at the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Such was his tranquility behind the wheel that Hamilton didn’t even realise it was the last lap when he came to cross the finish line. He wanted to keep going. On and on and on and on. Never wanting that feeling to end.How quickly the landscape has changed. It should come as no great surprise – Max and Red Bull simply have more battle-hardened recent experience of competing at the front and are therefore better equipped to capitalise on such opportunities than Norris, with just a single victory to his name, and a young McLaren team with limited success over the last decade – but it is an unsustainable way of going motor racing.
It always felt like that day would be pivotal in the career of Lando Norris, a driver with all the talent in the world in his early days but without the belief, the conviction, the certainty to go with it.Seven weeks on, Norris continues to drive in the afterglow of his maiden triumph in Miami, the most important race he will ever win.
The sort to suggest that Norris too has now begun the process of positioning himself as a serious candidate to become F1’s next World Champion if his and McLaren’s current trajectory can be sustained across the rest of this season and into next. Am I the same driver I always was, just cruelly restricted by the limitations of my machinery? Or am I actually the problem here?
“Over the weekend, just a really poor performance from myself,” Hamilton said the following day, having just been beaten by Russell to Mercedes’ first podium of F1 2024.Me? Or the car? Me? Or the car? You could almost hear the cogs turning inside his head as he uttered those words. One of the reasons Christian Horner and Co. have been so forgiving of Perez’s performances is that there is no outstanding in-house candidate to replace him, with Yuki Tsunoda never to be trusted with a Red Bull and Daniel Ricciardo’s hopes of rediscovering his old self long since faded.
Overlook the team’s second-rate status, however, and increasingly there is a lot to like here, from the tightening technical bond with Red Bull, which has already delivered some impressive results in 2024, to the appointment of Laurent Mekies, one of Sainz’s former bosses at Ferrari, as team principal.
The most alarming aspect of the return of Briatore – originally banned for life for his role in Crashgate, quite possibly the worst case of cheating in sporting history for its brazen preparedness to put the lives of drivers, spectators and marshals in the way of peril in the pursuit of personal gain – was the way it was met with little more than a shrug by some of F1’s leading figures.
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