[Rassegna stampa] – Formula 1 has already landed in Qatar a few days ago, there were press conferences, free practice will start today, yet everyone’s attention is still focused on a race that ended last Sunday. The Sao Paulo Grand Prix is in many ways not over yet. A fundamental decision for the championship still needs to be made on the behavior of Max Verstappen in his defensive maneuvers against Lewis Hamilton, before the # 44 Mercedes managed to get the better of his Dutch rival. Under observation is the infamous move made by the orange on lap 48, when in Curve 4 he widened his trajectory, taking his rival to the title off the track and coming out of the track limits himself.
Toto Wolff’s team asked for the right of review but the Commissioners have not yet been able to make a decision. A paradoxical situation given that – theoretically – the possible Verstappen sanction could also be retroactive and therefore affect his second place in São Paulo. In case of ‘guilt’, however, the Red Bull driver could also be punished with penalty positions on the grid for the Losail race, thus leaving the result of last Sunday unchanged. Or, of course, # 33’s acquittal could be confirmed, and everything would remain as it is. A sort of limbo in which the championship is suspended and which adds further tension to the already fiery rivalry between Brackley and Milton Keyens.
It is inevitable that the story will also find space in Italian newspapers. On the Corriere della Sera, for example, Daniele Sparisci ventured a comparison with the football Var. “Endless hearings, appeals, videos sifted through by frame hunters. The global fight between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton has turned into a Var brawl. But it’s not football. […]. It is the fruit of the poisoned climate of this final season. […] The time for diplomacy is over, Toto Wolff had thundered […]. And here in Qatar, […], we are still stuck on lap 48 of Interlagos. […]. They are videos, popped up only on Tuesday, of Verstappen’s on-board camera but there would be more. According to Mercedes they would contain overwhelming evidence that the move was irregular […]. The goal is to take them away from second place in Brazil or get them to start penalized here in the desert. […] why so slow in deciding? Because it is not a case like the others, there is a World Cup at stake […] we cling to every quibble of the regulation to try and get it right. The second goal is also to lower the tone, the clash between the two teams […] it’s out of control […]”.
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