Max Verstappen chased Charles Leclerc all the way in which for the ultimate podium place at Spa-Francorchamps however needed to accept fourth place.
With that, he chalked up his third consecutive grand prix with no podium end. That hasn’t occurred since he turned world champion. The 2019 rounds at Sochi, Suzuka and Mexico Metropolis had been the final three consecutive occasions at which Verstappen didn’t attain the podium.
It could possibly be worse, after all. Verstappen’s former championship rival Lewis Hamilton completed seventh, extending his longest-ever podium drought to fifteen races. And Verstappen did have the comfort of profitable the dash race (not that he cares for these).
Oscar Piastri gained the race, chalking up the eighth grand prix victory of his profession. Remarkably, that not solely tied him with Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc, who joined him on the rostrum in second and third respectively, but in addition Jacky Ickx, who handed out the trophies. Daniel Ricciardo and the late Denny Hulme are additionally members of the eight-time winners’ membership.
Piastri additionally set a brand new course file for the present iteration of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit when he took pole place for the dash race with a lap of 1’40.510. Nobody managed to beat it throughout qualifying for the grand prix.
Norris picked up the thirteenth pole place of his profession, additionally tying with Ickx, in addition to Mark Webber, who now manages his group mate. Graham Hill, Jack Brabham, Jacques Villeneuve and Juan Pablo Montoya even have 13 poles to their names.
The McLaren drivers delivered the group’s fifty fifth one-two end within the race. It was their third in a row, a feat they final pulled off throughout the final race of 1997 at Jerez and first two of 1998 at Melbourne and Interlagos. Piastri additionally delivered the group’s first win at Spa since Jenson Button’s in 2012.
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Verstappen’s fourth place leaves him 81 factors off the championship lead however 28 forward of George Russell. He’ll due to this fact go into the summer time break within the prime three within the championship standings, which is important as he’s broadly believed to have an exit clause in his Pink Bull contract which might have allowed him to depart had he fallen to fourth or decrease.
Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s robust run of races continued together with his sixth no-score in seven rounds. He did handle to set the quickest lap nevertheless after making a second pit cease for one more set of slicks. That is the second of his profession, the opposite coming on the third spherical of the season at Suzuka.
Yuki Tsunoda was unable to mark his one centesimal grand prix begin with a return to the factors, chalking up his sixth consecutive zero. Nonetheless there was some encouragement for him in qualifying the place a late flooring improve helped him to seventh on the grid, his greatest end result since becoming a member of Pink Bull.
Oliver Bearman additionally completed out of the factors, although he had trigger to be extra annoyed than anybody. This was the fourth grand prix in a row through which he completed eleventh. A minimum of he had the comfort of two factors for seventh place within the dash race.
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