Max Verstappen was crowned World Champion for the 3rd year in a row on Saturday after finishing 2nd in the Sprint Race.
Oscar Piastri won the Sprint race for the first time in his F1 career while his teammate Lando Norris came 3rd.
In the race on Sunday, Verstappen won and another Mclaren double podium, Piastri 2nd and Norris 3rd, meant that the team are closing in fast with their championship rivals Ferrari.
George Russel finished 4th after a first-lap collision with Lewis Hamilton which meant the older driver DNF’ed and later received a reprimand for crossing a live track.
Russel was the only driver to do a 4-stop race after the FIA mandated an 18-lap life on all tires due to Pirelli’s concerns. The rest of the drivers did 3 stops.
Hamilton took full responsibility for the crash on Twitter after watching the replay and saw that Russel could not avoid the collision.
Charles Leclerc finished 5th while his teammate didn’t even start the race due to a fuel tank failure.
Fernando Alonso finished 6th despite fighting for a podium place at the beginning stages of the race. He struggled with the heat of his seat and received a penalty for track limits, at the end of the race he was under investigation for rejoining the track unsafely after he went off because of what he said was a gust of wind.
Esteban Ocon, who revealed he had vomited in his helmet during the race, finished 7th.
The Alfa Romeo teammates both finished in the points for the first this season with Valtteri Bottas in 8th and Zhou Guanyu in 9th.
Sergio Perez took the last points place in 10th after Lance Stroll dropped out due to a penalty because of track limits. The Red Bull driver received multiple track-limit penalties during the race.
The humid and testifying race put the drivers through hardship as they all struggled with the heat, Logan Sargeant decided to retire because he felt unwell and had to be helped from the car.
The Williams teammate Alex Alobon also had to be helped from the car at the end of the race after finishing 13th.
Stroll stumbled over to an ambulance straight after struggling to get out of the car and Leclerc struggled to speak. Norris revealed that multiple drivers had fainted after the race while seeking medical attention.
A lot of questions were raised by fans after it was realised that all the drivers had struggled in some way with the race in extreme ways.
Hopefully next year the race will be safer with it being 6 weeks later in the year.
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