Max Verstappen twice-penalised for Lando Norris battle as Carlos Sainz wins

Max Verstappen hit with 🎉double penalty for Lando📖 Norris clash as Carlos Sainz takes Mexico City win.

Carlos Sainz
Carlos Sainz

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen was penalised twice for a battle with F1 title rival 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Lando Norris as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Carlos Sainz won an action-packed Mexico City Grand Prix.

Thr🌄ee-time world champion Verstappen was hit with two 10-second time penalties for separate incidents with Norris in Sunday’s 71-lap race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriquez, dropping him to sixth.

Norris finished second to enjoy an 10-point swing over Verstappen and reduce the Red Bull driver’s championsꦦhip advantage down to 47 points with four rounds r𓃲emaining.

The controversial flashpoints occurred on Lap 10 when Norris attempted to sweep around the outside of Verstappen at Turn 4, only for the Red Bull drive♓r t🉐o force his rival wide.

Verstappen then lunged down the inside of Norris into Turn 8, taking both cars off track and into the run-off💛, which enable𓄧d Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to sneak past and move up to second.

Versta♕ppen served his penalty totalling 20-seconds during his first pit stop and fell as low as 15th, before starting his fightback drive.

Lando Norris and Max Verstappen clashed again
Lando Norris and Max Verstappen clashed again

For the second cꦺonsecutive weekend, an impressive Ferrari victory was overshadowed by controversy involving F1’s two championship protagonists, as Carlos Sainz converted pole position into his second victory of the season.

Norris claimed second after Leclerc had a huge wobble coming out of the final corner on lap 62 and surrendered a place to the McLaren driver. Leclerc some🗹how managed to keep his Ferrari out of the barriers as a second 1-2 for the Italian team in as many weekends went begging.   

Lewis Hamilton prevailed in a duel with Mercedes teammate George Russell to take fourth, with Verstappen coming home sixth to li꧟mit the damage to his championship le💙ad, which remains healthy.

Kevin Magnussen claimed seventh ahead of the recovering McLaren of Oscar Piastri, while Nico Hulkenberg endured a double points finish for Haas, whose imprꦺessive recent momentum continued in Mexico.

Pierre Gasly rounded out the♍ points-scorers by finishing 10th for🌺 Alpine.

RB’s Yuki Tsunoda and Williams’ Alex Al🦩bon were wiped out in a first-corner collision which left both drivers with irr🅷eparable damage and saw the Safety Car deployed.

What should have been a celebratory 400th grand prix appearance for Fernando Alonso proved to be one to forget ♔when the Aston Martin driver was forced into retirement with a brake issue on Lap 16.

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