The New Jersey finalissima is also played in a setting as far away as Spa-Francorchamps and in a sport as different as Formula 1. The entire team Carlos Sainz, led by the Williams driver, along with Roberto Merhi, Carlos Oñoro (manager) and Borja Presol (physical trainer), have appeared on the Ardennes route dressed in the Spain shirt and with carefully thought out details. With the number 55 of Carlos and with the name of each one on the back, Sainz’s men have prepared a day that for them (and for the rest of the Spaniards in Belgian lands) overshadows what happens today in the race, where the options for showing off ours are scarce.
It so happens that MARCA already shared with Carlos, his father, El Matador and Fernando Alonso, the 2010 final in South Africa, crowned with the goal of Iniesta And, it happened on another F1 circuit, Silverstone. Sainz Jr was 16 years old and he saw the top F1 competition as a dream, but he and his father, in addition to the entire Spanish press, were invited by Fernando Alonso to the Ferrari motorhome to follow that final against Holland.
This time, The time will not allow for a meeting of this type, since the teams will have dismantled their ‘chamizos’ to travel by road to Budapest, where next week the Great Circus and the show continue. The Spanish press makes plans about where to see the big event after 12 hours of work on the circuit and there are varied options.
Some will even simply listen to the game on the radio, already on the way to Brussels or Dusseldorf (the closest airports) as they wait for the usual three-hour traffic jam until they reach the destination, already at dawn, to take a flight back to Spain on Monday morning.
Colapinto alone, but with a special flag
He rival For Sainz and his people it is Franco Colapinto, the Alpine driver, who entered the paddock alone this morning, but dressed in the albiceleste and carrying a special bannera flag with the images of Leo Messi and Diego Armando Maradona, the two great icons or gods of Argentine football.
F1 and the World Cup never had a single country as the winner
Among the curiosities, Never have an F1 driver and his country coincided as world champions of their sports in the same year. Hills near that has been about to become reality was in 1996, when England won at home and the Australian living there for decades. Sir Jack Brabhamwas the champion of that course and although the team he named was English or British, he returned to his country of origin to retire in 1970.
Fernando Alonso was about to make it a reality in 2010, but the unforgivable error of strategy Ferrari in the race of Abu Dhabi, that of the memory of being stuck behind Petrov and his Renault for two thirds of the race, avoided the Asturian’s third World Cup that day. Vettel was the champion in Yas Marina, but With his team he had finished Spain a few days before with a great goal from Puyol.
