The Monegasque charles leclerc won the first race of the 2022 season Formula 1this Sunday at Bahrain Grand Prixgiving Ferrari its first win since 2019 on a day when the Scuderia’s other driver, the Spaniard Carlos Sainz Jr, was also second.
The british lewis hamilton (Mercedes) completed the podium, with third place, thanks to the abandonment of the two Red Bulls, the Dutch Max Verstappen (current world champion) and the Mexican Sergio Perez due to breakdowns in the last three laps.
Ferrari, who trusted the change in technical regulations that comes into force this year to forget two years without victories (since the 2019 Singapore GP), thus begins in the best way and officially launches its candidacy for the title.
The legendary Italian brand has not been a champion in pilots since it achieved it Kimi raikkonen in 2007 and has not been crowned in the constructors’ category since 2008.
On a personal level, Leclerc, who had left from the pole positionalso gets revenge for what he experienced in Bahrain in 2019, when He was going straight for his first F1 win, before being betrayed by his engine.
The british george russellnew signing of Mercedes, finished fourth.
After a season away from the premier category of motorsport, the Danish Kevin Magnussencalled at the last minute last week to replace the Russian Nikita Mazepinfired after the invasion of Ukraine, gave Haas a creditable fifth place this Sunday.
finn Valtteri Bottas (former Mercedes, now at Alfa Romeo) was sixth, ahead of the French EStephen Ocon (Alpine, 7th), the Japanese yuki tsunoda (AlphaTauri, 8th), the Spanish Fernando Alonso (Alpine, 9th) and the rookie Chinese Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo, 10th), who in the first Grand Prix of a driver from his country managed to enter the scoring zone. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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