Ferrari goes with Verstappen at the Hungarian GP

Red Bull has no problem acknowledging that Ferrari has designed a car faster than its own for this Formula 1 World Championship.

By doing so, you indirectly underline your ability to maximize the resources you have, which are not few either.

Any survey that is made by the 'paddock' will reveal that the car of 'Il Cavallino Rampante' is the fastest of all those measured this course, even if the statistics place the buffalo brand up there red.

Already over the halfway point of the calendar, Ferrari's strategy has been disastrous most Sundays, a general feeling and endorsed by the discussions on the radio that Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc have publicly held in recent dates, with those responsible for guiding them from the wall.

In Hungary,

the last appointment before the holidays, the 'Scuderia' returned to stay with the embarrassments in the air when the majority of factors led to anticipate a double for those from Maranello.

The management of the race, especially the tires, made by the Italian team left its two riders off the podium.

The one made by Red Bull opened a tiny gap through which Max Verstappen slipped, who achieved a victory, the eighth of the course for him, which before starting seemed impossible.

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In a circuit like the Hungaroring, the one that many consider the permanent Monaco due to the difficulty it presents to overtake, the current champion found the route to gain nine positions – he started tenth – and appear from nowhere, after a spin and cornering Ferrari and force him to use the compounds that worked the worst for red cars.

As if that were not enough, the tire changes were not clean either, especially in the case of the Spaniard, who was left at the mercy of his teammate on the first visit to the garage (lap 17) and exposed to Hamilton on the second (on lap 47). .

Lewis Hamilton, second, and George Russell, third, completed the second consecutive double podium for Mercedes,

that with this result he returns to put a good bite to the advantage that Ferrari still has in the table reserved for constructors (30 points).

Sainz crossed the finish line fourth and Leclerc sixth, while Fernando Alonso did eighth, also penalized by Alpine's decision to fit his car with hard compounds, the ones that worked the worst this Sunday, as a result of the collapse of the temperature compared to Friday and Saturday.

The efficiency of Red Bull and Mercedes contrasts with the ineffectiveness of Ferrari, which does not hit the ground running and will do well to use the break to make a deep self-criticism.

No longer to fight for a title that Verstappen is increasingly tied to – he has an 80-point margin over Leclerc – but to rearm himself and try to secure the runner-up position, something that cannot be taken for granted if we take into account the progression he has demonstrated Mercedes.

Leclerc was leading the peloton when his structure decided to put hard tires on his prototype and that's where his problems began, something that was seen to come because others, such as Alonso, were having a hard time with them.

A week after the blunder that sent him against the barriers in France when he was leading, the Monegasque was the victim on this occasion of the trigger of his technicians,

which left him totally sold.

“We make different decisions and we have to analyze it.

Red Bull got theirs right and we didn't," Leclerc summed up.

Unlike the driver, Mattia Binotto, his director, preferred to focus on the car's lack of punch, which, according to him, is the crux of the matter.

“It's the first time we don't have speed in the race.

We have to analyze why.

We can discuss the strategy, but if the car does not help the tire, what we see is the consequence”, commented Binotto.

“It's the first time we don't have speed in the race.

We have to analyze why.

We can discuss the strategy, but if the car does not help the tire, what we see is the consequence”, commented Binotto.

“It's the first time we don't have speed in the race.

We have to analyze why.

We can discuss the strategy, but if the car does not help the tire, what we see is the consequence”, commented Binotto.

“It was a crazy win.

We proposed a very successful strategy and we stopped at key moments and that allowed us to overcome many rivals.

We were quite competitive, but it is true that Ferrari also chose its tires poorly”, summed up Verstappen, who already has a cushion of more than three grand prix over his first pursuer (Leclerc), after winning four of the last six tests.

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