Carlos Sainz won the Mexican Grand Prix

This was his dream and his great goal, and it came true. Carlos Sainz I didn’t want to leave Ferrari missing his fourth win, the second of the 2024 season, and he did it in Mexican Grand Prix.

The race began to take shape yesterday achieving pole position in the classificationand he didn’t just do it with a great lap, as is usually the case, but did two of the best laps of Q3. None Verstappennone Norris nor his partner Charles Leclerc They couldn’t even resist him.

However, pole position at the Circuit Hermanos Rodriguez is by no means a guarantee of success. The 900 meters separating the first position from the first turn usually makes life difficult for the Pole, and this time was no exception.

Max Verstappen caught him on the inside heading into Turn 1 and cornered him, sending Carlos off the track. and sending him to the grass. The Ferrari driver did not want to risk a penalty and returned to position, knowing that he would have the speed to overtake him later.

Decisive offensive

After a safety car period caused by Tsunoda and Albon’s accident at the start, the race was restarted and Carlos Sainz showed from the first moment that He had much more pace than Verstappen.. The Dutchman failed to cut the gap by more than a second to take Carlos out of the DRS zone, and he paid dearly for it.

After three laps Sainz didn’t think anything of it and went all out on the inside of Turn 1.catching Max Verstappen by surprise, who had not expected the attack and had no choice but to surrender.

From that point on, Carlos’s career was to keep Charles Leclerc at bay, who never posed a threat and who couldn’t even hold off Lando Norris in the final stretch.

Thanks to this victory in Mexico, Carlos Sainz added his fourth Formula 1 victorythey are all with Ferrari, and for the first time in his career he achieved two wins in one season.