Victorious for the ninth time this season, Max Verstappen consolidates his lead in the world championship, with 93 points ahead of his new runner-up, Sergio Perez. The Mexican overtakes Charles Leclerc, who had a complicated Sunday. Starting fifteenth due to a penalty for changing the engine, the Ferrari driver experienced tire problems from the first laps of the race and then lacked pace. A five-second penalty for speeding in the pit lane eventually demoted him to sixth place.
“I don't focus so much on the championship, Red Bull were on another planet today. We must first understand what is happening because we are much too slow, ” he reacted, disillusioned, getting out of his single-seater.
Among the rest of the grid, Lewis Hamilton retired on the first lap following a collision with Fernando Alonso in which the Briton was at fault; the French Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly finished seventh and ninth respectively.
