Formula 1: Here’s how Verstappen could win the crown without competing in a Grand Prix for the rest of the season

Third World Championship Formula one for the Dutchman Max Verstappen may be sentenced to Saturday sprint race V Qatara rare turn of events six races still to be held and in a sport accustomed to crowning its champions in Sundayalthough this is not unprecedented.

If Mad Max, winner of two of the three sprints this season, finishes sixth on Saturdayhis teammate Red BullMexican Sergio Perez will remain mathematically out of equation, as the name suggests. With a 177-point lead over second in the table and just 180 in contention over the last six races, adding three or more points on Saturday will make the Dutch champion for the third time in his career.

The Mexican, for his part, must finish at least second in the sprint and hope that Verstappen does not score to extend the dream of the championship for at least one more day, because even if he does not achieve it on Saturday, everything points to that The title will be yours on Sunday if you finish in the top eight..

Brazilian Nelson Piquethree-time world champion of the 80s, in addition to father of Verstappen’s partnerKelly Pique won his two titles on Saturday and the other on Friday.

The first title of the legendary champion of Brazil has arrived 1981 during the last test of the season, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Saturday, October 17. The second one arrived at 1983same thing on Saturday, but this time Kyalami, South Africa.

For 1987 Pique achieved something even more extraordinary in his third championship. During Japanese Grand Prixhis partner Williams and championship rival Nigel Mansell He had an accident during training, ended the season and condemned, without even qualifying, the championship for a man born in Rio de Janeiro.

The dominance was such that He didn’t need to score points in the last two Grands Prix of the season..

Although the first World Championship Grand Prix took place on Saturday in 1950 on the road SilverstoneUK, the race ceased on the first day of the weekend in 1977, with the last long race held in 1985 V South Africa and was won Mansell.

Now he The 100 kilometer sprint will take place on Saturday. in Qatar will offer Verstappen the first opportunity to score three points what he needs to win the world championship, in a preview that will provide eight points to the winner and from one to eighth place.

(Reuters)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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