‘Sitting duck’ Max Verstappen laments loss in Spanish GP
By JOSEPH WILSONMay 9, 2021 GMT
MONTMELÓ, Spain (AP) Track violations were not Max Verstappen’s undoing this time.
Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton was simply too fast at the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday and his Mercedes team too cunning for the 23-year-old Dutchman to handle.
After his great start to take the early lead from Hamilton in pole, Verstappen’s euphoria slowly vanished as lap after lap the Mercedes driver bore down on his Red Bull.
A second pit stop by Hamilton for new tires was the turning point.
“I could see it coming,” Verstappen said. “When they went for another stop, I knew it was over. We could see them getting closer and closer. I was a bit of a sitting duck.”
There were shades of Hungary 2019 at the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix, as Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton used a two-stop strategy to defeat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen’s planned one-stopper, and claim his fifth straight win in Barcelona. But despite having led the majority of the race, Verstappen said there was nothing he could have done to prevent the Mercedes driver from triumphing.
Making his 100th appearance for Red Bull at the circuit where he both started and won his first race for the team back in 2016, Verstappen tried to maximise his chances of taking victory with a brilliant pass on Hamilton for the lead into Turn 1 at the race start.
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A tattoo artist believes found Robin Hood s Silver Arrow while magnet fishing in Sherwood Forest.
Kush Wray, 32, pulled the fabled arrow out of a river on the first cast of his magnet fishing equipment near Budby, Nottinghamshire, on Monday.
Historians said the artefact looks like it could be from the 12th or 13th century, the time of Robin Hood, and revealed it would be silver in colour once cleaned, reported The Sun.
Kush Wray, 32, found a medieval arrow in a river near Budby, Nottinghamshire while fishing
Robin Hood won the Silver Arrow while dressed in disguise at an archery tournament set as a trap by the Sheriff of Nottingham, according to legend.