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Hamilton beats Schumacher

2020-10-25T16:38:46.100Z


The Briton, with his victory in Portugal, reaches 92 victories in Formula 1 and improves the German driver's record. Sainz, sixth


Hamilton celebrates the triumph in Portugal with an image of Schumacher in the background.Jose Sena Goulao / POOL / EFE

Red Bull does not want to jokingly have to deal with Renault again, with whom it broke relations in 2019 after celebrating, together, the four consecutive doubles accumulated between 2010 and 2013, all of them with Sebastian Vettel at the wheel.

The new alliance with Honda, which after its return to the World Championship in 2015 (McLaren) had begun to fine-tune its engines and offer its first fruits (four wins), when the Japanese constructor, true to his style, caught all of Formula 1 to after announcing his departure from the championship in late 2021.

The slam of the door leaves Red Bull and its younger brother, Alpha Tauri, who have been evaluating all possible scenarios since then before making a decision about which engine to incorporate their cars with a view to 2022. The sporting regulations of the contest oblige Renault, the manufacturer with the fewest customers (in 2021, when McLaren switches to Mercedes powertrains, it will have none) to provide its power units to teams that need it.

But Red Bull almost prefers its riders to pedal rather than have to deal with the French supplier again.

So much so that the team is considering taking over the Honda project to continue with its development before going back to client status.

The approach is overwhelmingly logical: hardly a formation will get the best material from one of its rivals.

This being the case, and the possibility that F1 could lose one of its most powerful recent symbols has made even the competition react.

Red Bull intends to continue with Honda as long as engine development is frozen immediately after the first grand prix in 2022. The fact that its headquarters and the headquarters of the Japanese firm's F1 engine division are located within a few kilometers away, it would facilitate a path that at first did not appeal to anyone.

However, this weekend in Portugal, Toto Wolff, director of Mercedes, acknowledged that the German manufacturer is open to consider that possibility to avoid what would be a great loss for the competition.

“I fully understand that Red Bull does not want to return to customer status.

They have the ability to optimize the Honda engine, which also surely has some interesting things ready, ”agreed the executive.

"I think we have to do everything in our power to give Red Bull that opportunity," added the Austrian, who exhibited his most magnanimous side, aware of the brutal superiority that, race after race, the Silver Arrows demonstrate. that in Portimão he again added another double, the fourth of 2020.

Despite a busy start due to the rain that catapulted Carlos Sainz from seventh place to the lead, the logic imposed by the mechanics again dictated when it escaped, and the usual order was restored.

Lewis Hamilton once again showed that he is seven worlds ahead of Valtteri Bottas and added his eighth win of the season and the 92nd of his service record, a figure that places him, now, as the most successful rider in the history of the contest in that statistic after beating Michael Schumacher.

Bottas finished second and Max Verstappen completed the podium.

Sainz, for his part, finished sixth.

Source: elparis

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