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Verstappen hero at home, Mercedes in slight recovery. Ferrari competitiveness surprise

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It seemed another fairly obvious race with little history. Well, at least the driver of the fastest single-seater train in the world was not the “usual” Hamilton. Because, in the last few races, the leader is called Verstappen. Who won and convinced, without flaws, without errors, without problems, without accidents. Within a month he became the true empathic leader of this season. But also the actual leader, numbers in hand, of this Formula 1 2021, at least up to this point. Both of the individual Grand Prix, both of the drivers’ world rankings and, with his team, also of the constructors: respectively 12 and 37 points ahead before this Sunday.

With today’s performance again capitalized by the young Dutchman, the gap between the pilots increases again and, psychologically, he carries well in view of the next GP, which will be raced again on the same track, but changing the name: today it was the Styria race, the next will be the national one in Austria.

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The Grosser Preis der Steiermark 2021 therefore saw Verstappen first on the podium without major worries, while behind him he crossed the finish line Hamilton never able to pick it up and a bottas for once “lucky”. The Finn most in the spotlight found himself in third place partly due to the misfortunes of others. It could and should have been Perez’s place today, the one at the bottom of the podium. And maybe someone else’s too. If it weren’t for the accumulated gap, in fact, Norris had also driven very well, but his hold on the race pace was not the most effective: in any case a good sixth place. And, unfortunately for Italy, always “too superior” compared to his teammate: Ricciardo, in fact, particularly nice in our latitudes thanks to his parents born in Calabria and Sicily, every Sunday is less and less constant and less close to same number of points as the young and promising Brit.

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An unexpected Ferrari

In the past, with a sixth and a seventh one could also complain. Or at least you could choose whether to see the glass half full or half empty. You could complain to the team. Especially after the recent proclamations to look only to 2022. But something, it must be said, has worked. Something let the fans breathe a bit. We saw Leclerc turn with an important, almost majestic pace. We have seen Leclerc believe in it, get angry, show that he is a driver who really deserves that place in red. We have seen Leclerc recover like a madman the positions lost following an accident at the first corner at this “cursed” point, because afterwards, anger, ability, tenacity, showed him gassed, toned and in top form, without further flaws and able to recover position on position

A determination that allowed him to fight and thrill when it came to overcoming the world champions of the past that he faced: Raikkonen, Vettel and Alonso. Nice overtaking with “fist fights” as has not been seen for some time. In the satisfaction of this day in the red, there is also a bit of mathematics: four points recovered on McLaren, due to a too “mediocre” Ricciardo and an unusually bright Sainz, despite a very backward start following a bad qualifying .

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