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The seventh race of the Formula 1 season took place in Belgium on Sunday, which the British won for sure. Lewis hamilton of the Mercedes team.
The Briton, who won pole position on Saturday, started off with confidence and held the top spot. The position of other leaders has not changed: the Finns Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) was second and the Dutch Max verstappen (Red Bull) – third. The leaders had some problems not with the attacks of the rivals, but with the wear of the tires. The entire trio drove more than 30 laps on hard tires. It is true that a significant number of other drivers did the same.
Hamilton did little less than reach the less common Grand Slam. This requires winning a pole position, leading every race, and continuing to drive the fastest lap of the race. The British lost their Grand Slam achievement only in the last round when Australia Danielis Ricciardo he ran the fastest lap with Renault and got an extra point for it.
The Ferrari drivers have shown that their current car is not suitable for either qualifying or racing. In Belgium, they didn’t win a point: a German Sebastian Vettelis finišavo 13-as, or monakietis Charles Leclercas It was the 14th.
At the start of the race, an Italian was involved in an accident. Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo). Then a Brit rode it George Russell (Williams) hit the tire of his opponent’s car and then crashed into the barriers. Fortunately, both pilots did not suffer. At that moment a safety car appeared on the track, but the intrigue did not increase as almost all the drivers took the opportunity to stop in the maintenance lane and the leaders maintained their positions.
Before the race weekend, there is little doubt that Sunday will be raining on the track. However, during all the races, the track remained dry and he did not shuffle the driver’s cards.
With 157 points, Hamilton is a strong leader in the standings, and Bot (107) came even closer to Verstappen (110). Mercedes (264) dominates the constructors’ ranking, Red Bull is calm in second place (158) and McLaren (68) has climbed to third place.
The eighth race of the season, the Italian GP, is already on September 6. will take place on the track of Monza.
Updated 5:29 PM Most of the drivers have problems with their tires, but there are 5 laps to go to the finish line.
Updated 5:20 pm With 10 laps to go, Hamilton is calmly approaching another victory. Bot loses more than 5 seconds and Verstappen almost 10 seconds.
Updated at 5:02 pm With 20 laps to go, the situation remains stable. L. Hamilton almost 4 sec. beats V. Bott and a little over 5 sec. – Mr. Verstappen. D. Ricciardo climbed to fourth place, A.Albon – to fifth place, and P.Gasly is still in sixth place.
Updated 4:51 pm Hamilton reported losing power, but the team assured that all was well for the car, and British lap times were the best among all drivers.
Updated 4:47 PM Unbelievable: S.Vettelis was outmatched even by K. Raikkonen, who has the same poor engine.
Updated 4:43 PM The safety car shrinks. All three leaders travel on hard tires.
Accident of A. Giovinazzi and G. Russell:
Updated 4:36 PM Almost all the drivers headed for the maintenance lane. The leaders held their positions, and P.Gasly climbed to fourth place without stopping. The fifth is also S. Pérez, who did not stop. S. Vettel rose to 12th place, Ch. Leclerc fell to 14th place.
Updated 4:33 PM A. Giovinazzi and G.Russell had an accident: a safety car on the track.
Updated 4:32 PM Among the top ten, only a trio of leaders ride on medium hard tires. Another 6 drivers have soft tires and P.Gasly ranks 8th on hard tires.
Updated 4:28 PM Ch.Leclercas dropped to 12th place and ran ahead of his teammate S. Vettel, even on softer tires. In front of L. Hamilton about 2 sec. Ahead of Bott, Verstappen loses more than 5 seconds and the other drivers are far from the top three.
Updated 4:23 pm Ch Leclerc lacks speed on the straight and is already ending up losing all the positions he won at the start. Monaco have already slipped to eleventh place, and are still being attacked by D.Kvyatas.
Start of the race:
Updated 4:15 PM The start of the race passed without major incidents. Hamilton calmly kept the first position, Bot continued in second place and Verstappen resisted Ricciard’s attacks. Mr. Leclerc made considerable progress, jumping to eighth place and then ditching Gasly.
Updated at 4:02 pm The probability of rain during the race was reduced to 40 percent. A few days ago, it was still 90 percent.
Updated at 4 pm Sainz’s race ended without even starting due to a car breakdown. I had to start seventh.
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