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[Rassegna stampa] – Between accidents, multi-million dollar damages, driving errors, gravel and red flags, Mugello showed the starkest image of Formula 1 today. Made of risk, calculation and humanity as always, net of the result that does not change, given the technical superiority of the Mercedes. Cynical and winner. Ferrari, in the hopeful qualifying with Leclerc, collapsed on the long straight of their own track. Those who make mistakes pay, and in Tuscany the bill has been high.
“There was a single red car in the lead, and for a long time, but it was a Mercedes-brand safety car painted red to pay tribute to the thousand Ferrari Grand Prix. A cuteness that turned out to be a mockery, given how it was the first Grand Prix of Tuscany. The party is over. The Scuderia lit up the Florence night, showed history and crest and promised that they will win again. But it will take at least two years. The next day on the track was painful. After a safety car, two red flags and three crazy, exciting and dangerous Grand Prix starts, only the result is standard: Lewis Hamilton wins his 90th race and Valtteri Bottas completes the Mercedes one-two, while the Reds with the elegant amaranth livery, just like the origins, they keep sinking. The public despised the event, disappointed by Ferrari’s results or, more likely, shocked by prices between 375 and 500 euros, already cut in half from the initial rates. So the first Mugello GP and the first behind closed doors were not sold out. The race was chaotic, Hamilton and Bottas swapped positions a couple of times, then the best one won. The Ferraris have at times been the slowest cars on the track and Leclerc is the driver who has suffered the most overtaking: from third to ninth. His story is heartbreaking: “I got off to a good start, then I didn’t have the rhythm anymore. I’m still motivated, but I have to understand what’s going on, because this is really difficult. Vettel, who had to push at the end to avoid Russell Williams’ attack, shares his teammate’s analysis“.
Stefano mancini, The impression
“Cruel race. For the bursting of the sheets, for the painful normality that not even chaos can change. Send him to Mars, set fire to the streets, the hero is always the same: Lewis Hamilton. In his F1 stage debut, Mugello presents a rare repertoire: just 12 at the finish line after three (serious) accidents and three starts from the grid. It hasn’t happened since the 1990 Belgian GP that the history of a race was written in three acts: the moment poleman Ayrton Senna won. Thirty years later, Lewis repeats his myth by reconnecting the invisible thread that connects him to the Brazilian“.
Alessandra retico, The Republic
“One thousand, a dreadful number like in the Middle Ages. For the chaos on a track where F1 had never raced and who knows if it will return. Due to the emptiness of this Ferrari, unable to seize any opportunity starting with the second consecutive technical knockout of Max Verstappen. Convicted in the last with eight runners out of twenty retired, three starts, two red flags, errors and misses. With two Mercedes in front of playing the elastic, Lewis Hamilton at 90 wins: another terrifying figure. A political message from the podium: black t-shirt with the words “Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor.” A young African American who died in Kentucky during a search in March. If no one was injured yesterday, it’s because the ultra-tough carbon shells, the Halo, and all the other security crusades did something. Old-school circuit for risky thrills. Charles Leclerc’s excellent grade and momentary third place had been cheated. There was an air of rebirth on the home track due to the thousand candles of the Scuderia in F1, the darkness has returned. Not as total as in Spa and Monza (here at least two reached the finish line and in the points), but almost. It was painful to watch Leclerc give up. White flag against the assaults of Racing Point, Renault, McLaren: a little sports drama for a very motivated boy, unlike Vettel who had already compromised his day with a bad Saturday“.
Daniele disappear, Corriere della Sera
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