The Red Bull car broke the right rear brake and the Dutch driver had to retire on the fifth lap in the Formula 1 race.
The Dutch Max Verstappen (Red Bull), triple world champion and facing the race as the leader of the competition, abandoned this Sunday the Australian Grand Prixthe third of the World Cup Formula One, held at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) took first place.
Verstappen, 26 years old, with 56 victories and one hundred podiums in F1, had to stop his RB20 after the fifth of the 58 laps in which the third race of the year was scheduled, after smoke started coming out of the back tire of his car.
The Dutch star did not return to the track and had to retire; something that has not happened since the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, in Imola (Italy) in 2022.
“It started getting hotter and hotter and of course it caught fire,” he explained. “It’s not perfect. You always want to finish the race. It’s a mechanical sport. “It’s sad that it happened, but the important thing is to understand why it happened,” He added, speaking to the official F1 YouTube channel.
Sainz won the Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix
The Spanish Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) won the Australian Grand Prix, third in the Formula One World Championshipheld this Sunday at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, with his compatriot Asturian double world champion Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) finishing sixth, just one place behind Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull).
Sainz, 29 years old, who two weeks ago underwent emergency surgery for appendicitis – which caused him to miss the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix – brilliantly won a race that his teammate, the Monegasque Charles Leclerc, second; and Englishman Lando Norris (McLaren) finished in third position.
Source: Tycsports
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