It was the race when McLaren's Lando Norris closed the gap a little to the championship leader - Red Bull's Max Verstappen.  It was the race when Max, for his part, incurred two ten second penalties for his over-zealous driving.  It was the race when Norris beautifully beat Ferrari's Charles Leclerc in the closing stages. 

And it was, withal, the race in which Ferrari's Carlos Sainz started from the pole and basically dominated throughout.  His was a classic, classy win - a faultless win in which he even had the perspicacity, on the opening lap, to relinquish the lead to Max after effectively passing him off-track.  No matter. Carlos ten minutes later made the clean pass going into Turn One.  From then on, his was a race of defence - initially against Max, then against his team-mate, Leclerc, and then, finally, against a fast-closing Norris.  Under pressure, Sainz made no mistakes.  

Which is all the more astonishing given that Ferrari will shortly be dumping Sainz in favour of Sir Lewis Hamilton.  No front-line driver in the history of the sport, as Peter says in this podcast, has had to endure that sort of abandonment - not throughout the season long, not when they are still capable of upstaging the other driver AND winning races.

Enjoy Peter's podcast, then - from the beginning of untimed practice on Friday, when both Leclerc and Norris were obliged to vacate their seats for newer drivers, to the dramatic, closing moments of a famous Sainz victory. 

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