Marko Hanželic
British he overtook at the end of the race Max Verstappen, with whom they had a close duel a few laps before and before the last three races of the season, reduced the gap behind their main competitor for the title to 14 points. He won third place Valtteri Bottas.
We had at the start reverse situation as in the sprint race and also unfolded in a similar spirit as in the sprint. Verstappen won a duel of the first kind against Bottas, Finca was then overtaken by Perez, which meant a double lead for Red Bull. Lewis Hamilton already gained four places before the end of the first lap, also at the expense of a punctured tire on the car Land Norris.
In the sixth lap, he set out on the track safety car, as they collided in the first corner tsunoda in Stroll, and parts of the Japanese car raced on the asphalt. tsunoda was later punished with a ten-second penalty for the incident. In the meantime Hamilton he had already advanced to fourth place, and in front of him he had also dropped it Valtteri Bottas, so that the Briton has already started threatening the runner-up after the end of the safety car phase Laziness.
Only a few minutes passed until the next collision, again in the first bend, where they found themselves in too little space this time. Schumacher in Raikkönen, all of which resulted in a broken front front wing on Nemčevo Haas, which pulled him under the car. In this case, the Commissioners opted for virtual safety car. Schumacher drove into the pits for a new race car nose and fell from fifteenth to last place.
He's in the eighteenth round Hamilton on the start-finish plane managed to overtake even more Laziness. The Mexican briefly returned it to him, but was powerless again at the start of the next round. The difference between the Briton and the Dutchman in the lead was poor after overtaking Perez four seconds.
In the 27th lap he came for a new set (this time of hard tires) Hamilton, a lap later, he also decided to stop in the pits Verstappen, who stayed ahead of his main rival, but only for a good second. Then, for a short time, the warning for virtual safety car, which he took advantage of Bottas and after the stops of both in the pits, came before Perez.
Hamilton it was becoming more and more dangerous Verstappen and in the 48th lap before the turn of the Descida de Lago he tried to get ahead The Dutchman, but the latter did not allow him to do so, and the whole incident was on the verge of an incident. It all escalated even to the point that they were both drove off the track, which is why many thought they would Verstappen earned a sentence but did not receive it in the end.
We also saw the first resignations in the last part of the race. He gave up at first Stroll, who had been driving with a damaged car for some time, followed him Ricciardo, who parked in the garage, but immediately after the event at McLarn they didn’t know exactly how to explain what went wrong. They later reported that it was loss of power Mercedes powertrains.
In the 59th round, the inevitable happened - Hamilton managed to overtake Verstappen, who in the following rounds did not have a chance to return the blow, as his backlog grew from round to round. Hamilton thus ended the race with a sovereign victory, which (if we add it all up) he started with 25 places behind and Verstappn's advantage went to 14 points. Perez with a stop just before the end, the Briton managed to score a point for the fastest lap.
It's near the end Gasly managed to overtake Alonso and break through to seventh place, and to the points they are at the top three and fourth Perez came again Leclerc, Sainz, already mentioned Gasly, Ocon, Alonso in Norris, who caught the point after "Rubber defect" in the first round.
Race for GP Sao Paula - results
