The Australian pilot of the McLaren team, Oscar Piastri, celebrates his victory in the Grand Prix of Spain.
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Oscar Piastri was the winner of the Spain Grand Prix with his McLaren this Sunday in a hot day at the Grand Prix of Spain. The appointment was the Barcelona circuit of Montmeló (Spain), where the Australian won his teammate, the British Lando Norris.
The first of the general beat the second of the same, so he reinforced his position, in the ninth of the 24 appointments he has this season of Formula 1. The third place of the day was for the Monegasco Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), in an animated ending in the last laps after the intervention of the security car.
Piastri now has 10 points ahead of Norris in the general, when he had started the day with 3 margin units. But above all, the Australian now manages to pick up 49 points to the current world champion, the Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), a great loser of this Sunday in Catalonia.
'Mad Max', who was fighting with Leclerc and the British George Russell (Mercedes) for third place, found his car with that of the British and was penalized with ten seconds, which made him go back from the fifth to the tenth place. Russell was finally fourth in this Grand Prix.
Verstappen, who finished the race with hard tires, of less performance, saw his chances of ending the day on the podium. Until the intervention of the 'Safety Car' because of a breakdown by Italian Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes), the Grand Prix was quite predictable in the top positions.
After starting fifteenth, the German Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber) ended sixth, a position that later became fifth due to the sanction to Verstappen. The Spanish Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), 43 years old and idol of the local audience in Montmeló, ended ninth and added his first points of this season.
The other Spanish competition pilot, Carlos Sainz Jr (Williams), who was fourteenth could not end in the score area. A place below, in the thirteenth, the Argentine Franco Colapint (Alpine) ended, which in his third race of this season has failed to score.
After three weekends in a row in Europe, Formula 1 will return the weekend from June 13 to 15 with the Canada Grand Prix.
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