Marko Hanželic
He got the start Hamilton, which started significantly better than Verstappen and drove into the first turn as the leader. It's in the seventh turn Dutchman with late braking he tried to get in front of the British, and we also saw a touch between the two, Hamilton however, he took over again by driving through the excursion zone leadership.
Dutchman he asked on the radio to him Hamilton returns to the position because he was in a bend before him, and the commissioners, after reviewing the incident, concluded that by the end of the round Hamilton, who claimed to have Verstappen knocked off the track, slowed down enough to regain the advantage he had gained by driving through the scotch zone.
In the meantime, he managed to break through to third place Perez, which later turned out to be a very important event in the race, on the other hand Bottas regressed to eighth place. Pri Red Bullu still could not accept the decision of the commissioners due to the event in the first round, which he also commented Christian horner: “There is no consistency in the decisions, which makes us very disappointed with the leadership of the race."
After a good ten laps, it was clear that the soft tires were already giving way, as Verstappen was no longer able to keep up with leading Hamilton and in the XNUMXth lap the Dutchman drove into the pits, with a Hamilton stop answer only a lap later. They both chose hard compound tires.
With that, he found himself in the lead Perez, who insisted on soft compound tires but quickly lost the advantage over Hamilton. It's in the 21th round British caught up Mexican, who did his best to make it as difficult as possible for the Mercedes driver to overtake. We’ve seen another good duel of both actors since Perez well resisted and Hamilton as many as twice overtook him back, making it Verstappen allowed him to get quite close to them. "Checo is a legend," he commented on the duel on the radio Dutchman.
It is, after all Hamilton started running again Verstappen, which meant they were “Red bulls” again had to look for an alternative strategy as it was crystal clear that they were slower than "Silver". In the 29th lap, he finished the race in the last race of his rich career due to brake problems Kimi Räikkönen, who first hit the safety fence, then drove into the pits and finished the race. George Russell, who drove the last race for Williams, also said goodbye to a technical defect.
Another who said goodbye to his employer with today's race, Antonio Giovinazzi, ended in resignation. This also triggered the virtual safety car phase, which they are at Red Bullu used for Verstappn’s stop in the pits and the use of a new set of bikes.
The phase of the virtual safety car was too short for Hamilton to replace the tires as well, which ultimately proved decisive. Verstappen began to melt Hamilton's advantage, but it was declining more slowly than we would have liked in Red Bullu.
Ten laps before the end, Hamilton’s advantage was still a good 12 seconds, first man Red Bulloh, Christian Horner, said in a statement for F1 TV: "I think we need a miracle now."
This one came in shape safety car, after his own Williams shattered Latifs. Verstappen took the opportunity to change tires again, and soon after that the race was over for his teammate Laziness, who parked in the pits.
The safety car (with severe protests) Tota Wolff) withdrew the lap from the track before the end, and even earlier all the racers behind the lap drove on, which meant that Hamilton on 25 laps of old hard compound tires he had just for himself Verstappen on a fresh set of soft tires. It followed (from the driver 's point of view Mercedesa) inevitably - Verstappen attacked in the fifth turn and Hamilton, who resisted as much as he could, had to concede defeat.
In the shadow of the duel for the world title, he finally stepped on the third podium Carlos Sainz, a great weekend was crowned with fourth place Yuki tsunoda, the fifth was his teammate gasly, and ranked tenth Bottas, Norris, Alonso, Ocon in Leclerc.
For the first time in F1 history, we thus got the world champion coming from Of the Netherlands. He won the constructors' title for the eighth time in a row Mercedes.
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