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Valtteri Bottas won the Russian Grand Prix, the tenth round of the World Championship Formula 1. In Sochi, the Finnish driver took advantage of a penalty of Lewis hamilton and took his second win of the season.
He’s on the podium with the Mercedes driver Max verstappen (Red Bull) and his teammate Hamilton: the world champion, sanctioned 10 seconds for having carried out start tests off the pitch before the start of the race, must postpone the operation hooked on Michael Schumacher , with 91 professional successes.
Below the podium are Pérez’s Racing Point and Daniel Ricciardo’s Renault. Chapter Ferrari: excellent career for Charles Leclerc, making the most of his SF1000 and finishing his career with a flattering sixth place. Far away instead Sebastian Vettel , thirteenth.
In the general classification, Lewis Hamilton remains comfortably in the lead with a 45-point lead over Bottas. Third Verstappen.
THE RACE
At first immediately cao s: In front Hamilton runs very fast and remains in the lead, Bottas snatches second place from Verstappen, behind Stroll he ends up on the wall after a contact with Leclerc and the Safety Car immediately enters the track. Sainz was also out.
The Safety Car returns after the sixth lap: on the restart Hamilton remains ahead of Bottas but receives the bad news of the penalty for having complied start off-field tests before the start of the race. The champion of the world must stop 10 seconds when you enter the pit lane for your stop. Far Ferraris: Leclerc is eighth and Vettel thirteenth.
Hamilton with a series of fast laps increases Bottas’ distance, then goes to the pits on lap seventeenth and serves all ten seconds, returning to the track around the tenth place . In just a few laps the six-time world champion climbs to sixth place, while up front Bottas tries to exploit the situation with a series of fast laps.
Nice work from Leclerc , which delays his return to the pits until lap 29 and is sixth when he returns to the track. Further away Vettel, fifteenth. The Monegasque has a good race pace and has the opportunity to overtake Ricciardo (penalized 5 seconds for a chicane cut): the Australian, however, manages to gain the necessary margin to stay fifth.
In the end Bottas maintains a frenetic pace , increasing the gap at Verstappen and especially at Hamilton, third and back. The world champion in the last laps raises his foot and is satisfied with his third position.
Arrival order (top ten)
Bottas
Verstappen
Hamilton
Perez
Ricciardo
Leclerc
Or with
Kvyat
Gasly
Albon
OMNISPORT | 27-09-2020 14:53
