Hamilton with a dramatic return after being close to relegation.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen won today's dramatic Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna, which started on the wet track "Imola" and ended with many twists and turns. This is the first victory for the Dutchman in Italy, but it came on time.
After a mistake and a crash in the gravel in the middle of the race, Lewis Hamilton dropped to ninth place and lagged one lap behind the leaders. However, red flags due to an accident and interruption of the race for 20 minutes returned to the game the seven-time world champion, who managed to make his way to second place by the final.
Lewis even managed to record the fastest lap today and with the one bonus point, he managed to stay at the top of the drivers' championship.
Third on the honorary ladder, after an extremely strong performance, climbed the young hope of Great Britain Lando Norris. The McLaren driver was penalized for disregarding a lap sufficient for a second position on the starting grid in qualifying for going off the track, but today he showed good speed again and fought for third place.
Charles Leclerc did a good race, tried to take advantage of all the problems of his rivals, but the speed of Ferrari was not enough to fight in the end for a place on the podium in the home for Scuderia race on the track "Imola". However, fourth place for Monegasque is a good achievement.
The top five in the final was completed by the new teammate of Charles in Ferrari Carlos Sainz. The Spaniard did not make his best race, made many mistakes, and left the track several times, but in the end, he found his pace and finished fifth.
Formula 1 is transferred from Bahrain to Italy for the second round of the 2021 season on the legendary Imola track. The fight for the victory in the Grand Prix of Emilia-Romagna was extremely fierce, and before the start it rained, which completely changed the conditions of the track and the settings of everyone for the race.
Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton from the Mercedes team started from the first position. Next to him in the first row from second place attacks not Max Verstappen, but his new teammate in Red Bull Sergio Perez. The Mexican surprised Max in yesterday's qualifying, who finished third.
The fourth was Ferrari star, Charles Leclerc. The young Monegasque was on the lookout for mistakes or incidents in order to perform as well as possible in the home Scuderia race on the Imola track.
Even before the cars lined up at the start, two-time world champion Fernando Alonso lost control of Alpin's car and hit the guardrails lightly. The Spaniard managed to return to the boxing of his team, where they changed the nose and front wing of his car. Shortly afterward, Nando returned to the track.
At the start from the first position Hamilton did not start well, and Verstappen entered the slipstream of his teammate Perez and with much higher speed managed to attack the leader on the first turn. Max's maneuver was successful, as the Dutchman pressed his British teammate and came into light contact, after which a small detail of Hamilton's car broke off.
So even before the first lap, we have a new leader in the form of Verstappen, followed by Hamilton and another Red Bull driver Sergio Perez.
The Mexican failed to take advantage of the battle of Sergio and Lewis because he left too much distance with the two and is currently in third place in second place. A few turns later, Perez lost traction in his rear axle and Leclerc immediately took advantage and overtook the Mexican in the fight for third place.
A blow by Williams driver Nicola Latifi in the protective walls put an end to the race of the French pilot. The wreckage of his car was too large, so a security car came out on the track.
In the 4th lap behind the safety of the start-finish line, while trying to warm up his tires, Mick Schumacher lost control of his car and hit the safety walls lightly. The son of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher was left without a front wing but managed to return to Haas boxing. However, he was locked up by the stewards, so Mick had to keep going around while waiting for a green light at the entrance to the pits.
On lap 6, the race was restarted and Hamilton immediately attempted an attack on leader Verstappen but failed. Lewis, for his part, began to defend himself against Leclerc, who maintains a very good pace on the wet but is already drying the track with a Ferrari car. By lap 15, Verstappen's lead had dropped to just over four seconds ahead of second-placed Hamilton. Leclerc continues to move to the great third position in the home Ferrari race of "Imola".
Perez failed to keep pace with the leaders and is now 27 seconds behind his Red Bull teammate and column leader Verstappen.
On lap 22, Vettel entered boxing for the second time. This time the fourfold world
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