Max Verstappen's more tyrannical version did not prevent most of the attention from focusing on Sunday on the resurrection of Mercedes, which emerged like a torpedo in Montmeló to sign the first double podium of the season for the star's brand. While waiting for the next tests to confirm the impression left by the Spanish Grand Prix, the package of updates that were applied to the W14 in Monaco, last week, invite us to think about an almost miraculous recovery of the German manufacturer. As much as the title is more than headed towards the home of the Verstappen, if the irruption of Mercedes in the fight for the top of the table is confirmed, that will give life to a championship practically seen for sentence in favor of Mad Max. Riding one of the most dominant cars in history with numbers in hand, the Red Bull driver did not leave even the crumbs since he went out to shoot at the Circuit on Friday, an unforgettable idyllic setting for him. Here he elbowed himself into the history of the contest, seven years ago, by opening his locker of victories in his first appointment in the overalls of the energy team, as a substitute for Daniil Kvyat. There were many who questioned then the decision of the red buffalo team. Today, no one knows where they are.
If we take into account that there is no better thermometer than Montmeló to gauge the potential of the cars, Red Bull has a car to win this World Championship and maybe the next one, given that no radical change of regulations is in sight. This weekend, Verstappen swept everything from free practice to timed and then put the chilli with a brilliant race, without any fissure, which took him straight to his fifth win of the course, with the fastest lap as a gift. The superiority of the prototype of Milton Keynes (Great Britain) is not new, but rarely was it as evident as in the Barcelona circuit, where the current champion binged until he almost fell asleep at the wheel.
With this panorama, the novelty starred the pair of Mercedes racers, who less than 10 days ago turned the Silver Arrows around in the hope of finding the light at the end of the tunnel in which he got more than a year ago. Lewis Hamilton's second place and George Russell's third place are a pretty obvious clue to the revitalization of the Brackley troop (Great Britain). If we are guided by what happened on the track, it is not rash to think that the improvement of the Stuttgart manufacturer means, consequently, the stagnation of Ferrari and Aston Martin. Not even the second place that Carlos Sainz could maintain at the time of the start was enough to retain the momentum of the two Mercedes and Checo Pérez, who started eleventh and finished fourth. Despite the effort made in Maranello to muscle the SF-23, Sainz finished fifth, 45 seconds behind the winner. Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, had no pace at any point and finally finished seventh, just behind Lance Stroll, his teammate, in the worst grand prix of this season for Aston Martin. With this result, the structure of Silverstone loses the second place in the statistics reserved for the constructors, which now happens to occupy Mercedes.
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