Bojan Vrbnjak
Although it sounds strange, but without a guilty conscience we can say that they are Mercedes in Hamilton surprisingly won today's race for GP of Russia. Silver arrows they have thus retained the primacy on this track they have had since the inaugural race of the year 2014. The current champion is v Sochi celebrated his ninth victory in this year’s championship and overall 82. in a career. He also won this thanks to his resignation Sebastian Vettl. The Briton sovereignly defended first place after his stop, while a duel for second place between Valtteri Bottas in Charles Leclerc.
Between the racers Ferrari has occurred again misunderstandings regarding the internal agreement. The Reds started the race great as it was obviously agreed to Mercedes they offer no chance until the first turn. Hag made a determined start, pulled past Hamilton also Leclerc. In the fourth turn, a close encounter was staged Ricciardo, Grosjean in Giovinazzi. A chain reaction was triggered where the shortest end was pulled Grosjean, who resigned.
It's in front Hag lined up one quick lap after another and slowly drifted away. It was a few laps later Vettel ordered to drop forward Leclerc, But the German refused to approach him, as he did not want to waste time compared to Hamilton. But Leclerc he answered again and informed the team that he was Hag too fast. Then the greats Scuderie decided to make the change of places at the stops in the pits, since Mercedes he could not keep up with their speed. Hamilton is for Vettel lagged behind by seven, Bottas and 14 seconds.
That's right Ferrari started undercut against Vettel. In 22th round they called to the pits Leclerc, young Monachan returned to the track in fourth place for Bottas. Hag he turned to the stop only in the 25th lap, after losing significantly two laps earlier due to worn rear tires. Ferrari he did everything he could Nemec came on track for Leclerc, but just moments later, it is To the German crashed and unfortunately had to resign. The race leadership turned on virtual safety car, which many racers took advantage of for their stop. Both too Mercedesa. Hamilton even managed to come before Leclerc.
After another safety car - due to an accident George Russell - it is Ferrari called again Leclerc to a stop and wrap it in a soft mixture to overtake first Bottas, who came before him, and then attacked Hamilton. Leclerc he could not pass Bottas. Despite being a faster racer on the planes, he is young Monachan he broke his teeth behind the Finn. So he had to settle for just s third place.
He led to the finish line for the top three Max Verstappen, and an even better performance was shown by his teammate Alexander albon, who started the race from the pits and was able to look forward to fifth place in the end. He won sixth place Carlos Sainzand was seventh Sergio Perez. Eighth Lando Norris rounded out another great show McLaren, was the ninth Kevin Magnussen, the tenth Nico Hulkenberg.
From eleventh place onwards, they ranked Stroll, Kvyat, Raikkonen (who was too fast at the start today), gasly in Giovinazzi. But they resigned Grosjean (accident), Ricciardo (damage to the car in an accident), Sebastian Vettel (engine failure), George Russell (accident) and Robert Kubica (failure).
