Red Bull’s Max Verstappen holds off a late charge from McLaren’s Lando Norris to win the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen held off a late charge from McLaren’s Lando Norris to win the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
Norris went into the final three laps just 1.3 seconds behind Verstappen, but was not quite close enough to have the DRS overtaking aid on the final lap, and the world champion hung on. Verstappen looked comfortable in the first stint, but there was an indication even before coming under late pressure that his day was not as easy in the car as it appeared to be from outside when he was given the black and white flag for exceeding track limits too many times shortly after his pit stop.
McLaren came on the radio to warn Norris that Leclerc was speeding up and “trying”. “Me, too,” Norris replied. “I’m trying, but he’s just a lot quicker.”Initially eight seconds back, Norris had the gap down to five seconds with 10 laps to go, while Verstappen was complaining that “my tyres don’t work”.“The whole race I had to push to the limit,” Verstappen said.
“It is still a surprise to say we are disappointed not to win, but it is what we should start to expect.”In the second part of the race, Piastri initially challenged Leclerc in the laps after the pit stops, but the Ferrari soon began to ease away and inch towards Norris. Despite that misadventure, Hamilton was more than capable of maintaining his advantage in the final laps over Perez, who was on an inverted tyre strategy from his lowly 11th place on the grid.
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