F1 GP Emilia Romagna LIVE in Imola, Bottas in the lead | Live from the GP

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Lap 12: Pit stop for Russell too

Lap 11 – Situation: Bottas with 2 ”on Verstappen and 3” on Hamilton. Ricciardo 15 “from Bottas, Leclerc 17” 5. Pit stop for Giovinazzi who is in high school

Lap 10 – Gasly’s withdrawal confirmed

Lap 9: Problems for Gasly, who tells him to return to the pits due to a technical problem. For the bitter French retirement while I was fifth

Lap 8 – Ricciardo 8 seconds behind Hamilton

Lap 7 – Another fast lap from Bottas

Lap 6: Sainz passes Norris, all duel at McLaren. Meanwhile, a quick lap from Bottas trying to stretch. Investigation into a contact between Vettel and Magnussen

Lap 5: Hamilton takes the fastest lap and tries to attack Verstappen’s Red Bull. The first 3 have medium rubber, from 4th to 10th (Ricciardo, Gasly, Leclerc, Albon, Kvyat, Norris and Sainz) have soft rubber

Lap 4 – Ferraris: Leclerc is sixth, Vettel 15th behind Giovinazzi’s Alfa Romeo

Turn 3 – Bottas precede Verstappen, Hamilton, Ricciardo, Gasly, Leclerc, Albon and Kvyat

Lap 2 – Problems for Stroll who played with Ocon and returned to the pits to change the damaged nose

Round 1 – Forward! Mercedes immediately took the lead with Bottas ahead of Verstappen who burned Hamilton

– Lineup lap started

– All ready for the lineup lap

The previous race

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In Imola everything is ready for the Emilia Romagna GP, the 13th round of the F1 World Championship. Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes take off from pole, followed by Max Verstappen’s Red Bull and Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri. Departure at 1:10 p.m.

12.55 – National anthem

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National anthem on the starting grid sung by the three boys from Flight.

12.30 pm – Pit open

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The drivers leave the pits to take the starting grid, open pit lane.

12.25 h – Good weather

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Latest weather updates provided by Ferrari: 18 degrees in the air and in the sun.

12.10 – A diamond for Ayrton

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A curiosity: the trophies for the podium pilots, which reproduce the Imola track, will have a small 0.14 carat diamond on the Tamburello curve in honor of Ayrton Senna.

11.55 – 13 constructors

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13 constructors from Emilia Romagna have attended Formula 1: let’s start with the two teams currently engaged: Ferrari and AlphaTauri, formerly Minardi and Scuderia Toro Rosso, based in nearby Faenza; and then the prestigious Maserati, the Dallara, capable of getting on the podium and the Tecno, capable of taking the points. For the rest, ATS (Automobili Turismo e Sport), the De Tomaso, the Lambo (emanation of the Lamborghini), the Osca, the Tec-Mec and, finally, the Life of Ernesto Vita who tried without luck to bring the W12 engine to the race. Rocchi.

11.50 am – Bottas: “I’m ready”

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Bottas: “Yesterday was a lot of fun, but the race counts, there will be several obstacles to victory but I feel prepared. Taking your head will be essential, but concentration will count ”. Hamilton: “Beautiful day, sunny, I can’t wait to start, nobody knows what to expect. Valtteri wants to win, but me too, I don’t look at the classification but I want to win, at the beginning there is a long straight, let’s see ”.

11.46 – Leaders of Italy and the United States

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Two countries in the history of Formula 1 have hosted three championship races in a single season. Before Italy this year, with Monza, Mugello and Imola, only the United States, in the 1982 World Cup, when we raced in Long Beach, Detroit and Las Vegas. Another six at the end of the year will be the nations that, instead, will have hosted two races in one season: Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Spain and, in 2020, Austria and Bahrain.

11:45 am – Leclerc: “I’ll give 200%”

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Charles Leclerc, a few hours before the start of the race on F1 TV: “Yesterday I expected to do more, but the race is today, I will give 200% as always to bring home a good result.”

11.40 am – Senna’s memory

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The return to Imola was an opportunity to remember Ayrton Senna, who lost his life to Austrian Roland Ratzenberger in the 1994 GP. Here is the video celebrating the International Automobile Federation.

11.35 – Mercedes for history

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It is an important GP especially for Mercedes, who can win the seventh consecutive constructors’ title, a feat that no team has ever achieved.

The first time 40 years ago

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14 years after the last San Marino Grand Prix, won by Michael Schumacher with the Ferrari 248 F1 in 2006, Formula 1 returns to Imola’s Enzo e Dino Ferrari circuit for the Emilia Romagna GP, the third round of the season in Italy after those of Monza and Mugello. 40 years have passed since the first time of the World Championship at the Santerno circuit, when the plant hosted the Italian GP instead of a Monza closed for modernization works. Starting the following year, the track on the outskirts of Milan resumed the tricolor race, but for 26 years the San Marino Grand Prix was held in Imola.

Fifth unpublished name

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The name of the race, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, is the unprecedented fifth of this season (after Styria, 70th anniversary, Tuscany – Ferrari 1000 and Eifel), while the only driver to have competed at Imola in Formula 1 is the veteran. Kimi Räikkönen who has five presences on the track for whose construction, among others, Enzo Ferrari also worked as a consultant, in 1948. The plant was inaugurated in 1953 with a motorcycle race, which the following year was added the debut of the car with the race called Conchiglia d’Oro Shell that was won by Umberto Maglioli’s official Ferrari Mondial.

The name of Dino Ferrari

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In 1970, during a solemn ceremony at the City Hall, the mayor of Imola entrusted the fate of the racecourse to the image and charisma of Enzo Ferrari, naming it in honor of his son Dino, who died in 1956 at just 24 years of age. On the death of the great Enzo in 1988, precisely to give a tangible example of the affection and gratitude that united Imola with the “Drake”, the circuit was renamed Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari.

The 12 Emilians

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Twelve drivers from Emilia Romagna have competed in Formula 1. The only one to win a race was Lorenzo Bandini, born in Libya to Romagna parents. For the rest we remember Cesare Perdisa and Stefano Modena, able to get on the podium, Alex Zanardi, Mauro Baldi and Pierluigi Martini, who managed to reach the points, and Nanni Galli, Andrea Montermini, Lamberto Leoni, Giuseppe Gabbiani, Siegfried Stohr and Marco Apicella.