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An incredible, dramatic, crazy race, full of emotion on one side and painful moments on the other, ended with Sergio Pérez achieving his first victory in Formula 1, in a painful race for the Mercedes driver, George Russell, who had never seen the luck on your side.
Russell had completed a perfect race from the start, when he advanced to first place until the first corner, asserting control over his colleague Valtteri Bottas, in his first race with the Mercedes teams after the absence of world champion Lewis Hamilton, due to his contagion with the Corona virus.
The first lap saw the safety car enter, due to an accident between Racing Point driver Sergio Pérez and Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc, which caused contact with Max Verstappen’s Red Bull car.
However, Pérez managed to continue the race and make an emergency pit stop, while Russell was able to fly ahead of Bottas, and McLaren driver Carlos Sainz was third.
Mercedes’ strategy was simple, with Russell and Bottas at a pit stop, switching to hard tires until the end of the race.
This strategy was successfully implemented, given the comfortable performance advantage the Mercedes team enjoyed over all its competitors.
The Mercedes team was in a comfortable position to win the race and achieve the first and second place doubles with Russell and Bottas, respectively. However, getting into the safety car, on lap 63 of the race, after Williams driver Jack Aitken made a mistake in his first Formula 1 race at the last corner, resulting in the loss of the wing forward, led Mercedes to perform a double maintenance stop.
That maintenance stop was very messy. Russell got the wrong set of moderately hard tires, left the pit, while Bottas was stopped for a long time when the Mercedes team realized his mistake and gave Bottas back the set of hard tires he was using.
Mercedes’ career began to deteriorate from that point on, with Bottas and Russell falling to fourth and fifth respectively behind the safety car, while Pérez, who completed the two-stop strategy in spectacular fashion, took the lead. and completed a series of daring excesses, before the Mercedes troubles, on his way to Podio.
Perez led the way against Renault driver Esteban Ocon, who successfully completed a solo stop strategy, and his teammate, Lance Stroll, who also successfully completed the single stop strategy.
After the race continued, with 20 laps remaining, Russell’s speed was truly impressive, and he was clearly on his way to regain the lead, completing a series of impressive feats time after time, overtaking all of his rivals, and heading for win your first race in Formula 1 with superb style. .
However, on lap 79 of the race, with less than 10 laps remaining, Russell ran into a hole in the left rear tire on board, completing a pit stop on his final descent, ensuring Perez got his first win in Formula 1 in an incredible race. Free of problems for the Mexican who leaves his team at the end of this season.
The result was also great for Ocon, who achieved his first podium in Formula 1 with Renault, leading Stroll, who completed the podium positions in third place, although he was subjected to tremendous pressure from the McLaren driver Carlos Sainz, who followed him, as with a chauffeur. Renault Daniel Ricardo, the wrong strategy that led them to retire and leave the podium they struggled to cross the finish line in fourth and fifth place, respectively.
Sixth place went to Red Bull driver Alexander Albon, in a solo race for the Thai, in which he played no role in the battle for the lead in light of the exceptional circumstances that occurred in front of him, and was left ahead of Alpha Torey driver Daniel Kviat.
The Mercedes duo finished the race in eighth and ninth places, respectively, with Russell and Bottas, respectively, and Lando Norris finished in the top ten for McLaren after starting from the bottom of the standings.
Pierre Gasly finished the race on the cusp of the points, eleventh in favor of the Alpha Touré team, beating the sole Ferrari representative, Sebastian Vettel, who faced a catastrophic race with his problems suffering in the maintenance interruption with the Ferrari team. and lost precious time, and to pass the finish line ahead of the duo Alfa Romeo A, Tonio Giovinazzi and Kimi Raikkonen, while the duo of Haas, Kevin Magnussen and Pietro Vittipaldi, came in 15th and 17th places, separated by Jack Aitken in his first race in Formula 1.
