{"id":73609,"date":"2024-06-24T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73609"},"modified":"2024-06-24T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T04:03:33","slug":"max-verstappen-wins-f1-spanish-grand-prix-ahead-of-lando-norris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73609","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen wins F1 Spanish Grand Prix ahead of Lando Norris – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONTMEL\u00d3, Spain \u2014 Max Verstappen<\/a> steered his Red Bull<\/a> to victory at the Spanish Grand Prix<\/a> on Sunday to increase his lead in the Formula 1 drivers championship.<\/p>\n

Verstappen started from second on the grid behind pole-sitter Lando Norris. But the three-time champion whipped past the McLaren<\/a> driver by the first turn and then overtook George Russell on lap three of 66 and never looked back.<\/p>\n

Norris tried to mount a late challenge but Verstappen upped the pace to cross first. Norris was second, followed by Lewis Hamilton<\/a> of Mercedes<\/a> in third.<\/p>\n

Verstappen said that his moves to get past Norris and Russell so early proved crucial so he could build an advantage and keep the hard-charging Norris at bay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think what made the difference in the race was the beginning,\u201d Verstappen said. \u201cI took the lead and had my buffer. After that we had to drive a defensive race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verstappen got his seventh win in 10 races this season and claimed his third straight victory at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalonia.<\/p>\n

Verstappen has 219 points. Norris moved into second place with 150, overtaking Ferrari<\/a>\u2019s Charles Leclerc, who fell into third place with 148 points after finishing fifth.<\/p>\n

Norris put the blame on his poor start \u2014 when he lost two spots \u2014 for having to settle for second. The British driver got his first win at Miami<\/a> in May and was gunning for a second victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI should have won,\u201d Norris said. \u201cI got a bad straight, it is as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamilton\u2019s third place was the first podium of the season for the seven-time world champion, who is in his last season for Mercedes before joining Ferrari next season.<\/p>\n

Norris was beaten from the starting line by Verstappen and Russell, who whipped around both rivals from his start from fourth on the grid to take a surprise lead after the nearly 600-meter (yard) run to the first corner.<\/p>\n

Verstappen was right behind Russell, however, and within two laps he swerved past him just after his team told him \u201c(this) might be our best opportunity now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Once ahead, Verstappen managed his tires on the tough Barcelona track, and his Red Bull team pulled off two clean pit stops to avoid any mistakes.<\/p>\n

Norris showed his great form by chasing down both Mercedes after a tire change. He got past Hamilton and then featured in a long duel with Russell midway through the race. Norris swerved past, Russell counterattacked to edge ahead, before Norris finally got in front.<\/p>\n

But the jousting also favored Verstappen, who added to his lead.<\/p>\n

Norris turned up the speed over the final 10 laps and was closing on the Dutchman, but he ran out of time and track. He crossed two seconds behind Verstappen.<\/p>\n

Russell finished fourth, while it was a bad day for Leclerc and Carlos Sainz as neither Ferrari could contend with the front-runners. Sainz, the Spanish fan\u2019s best hope for a win, finished sixth.<\/p>\n

Norris\u2019 McLaren partner Oscar Piastri was seventh. Sergio P\u00e9rez in the other Red Bull was eighth after his start from 11th place following a third-place grid penalty incurred in last round\u2019s Canadian GP. Alpine pair Pierre Gasly and Esteban Ocon rounded out the top 10. Fernando Alonso<\/a> was 12th in his Aston Martin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MONTMEL\u00d3, Spain \u2014 Max Verstappen steered his Red Bull to victory at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday to increase his lead in the Formula 1 drivers championship. Verstappen started from second on the grid behind pole-sitter Lando Norris. But the three-time champion whipped past the McLaren driver by the first turn and then overtook […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}