They came, they saw, he conquered. Again. F1
Carlos Sainz’s 12.7-second stop, later followed by Perez tripping over a stray Ferrari wheel gun and an unsafe release, completed the Prancing Horse’s latest calamitous day at a circuit on which the F1-75 would quite feasibly have been out of sight earlier in the season.
After Russell’s podium in Baku in June, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff described his delight that despite lacking the car to challenge for victories, the team’s ability to get the basics right – strategy, driving, operations, procedures – was still bringing rewards, still something to cling on to as a point of pride.can manage to do the same until the end of the year, they might find everything else gets so much easier.
Fourth place is the limit of McLaren’s ambitions in 2022, but the same old problem is likely to cost them against an Alpine team able to count on both Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon on a regular basis. Norris, naturally, did his thing to qualify in the best-of-the-rest position of seventh, but Ricciardo – qualifying and finishing P17, ahead only of the much-maligned Nicholas Latifi – increasingly has the look of a lost cause.
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