Red Bull’s Max Verstappen wins 70th Anniversary Grand Prix, Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton finishes second
Silverstone: Red Bull`s Max Verstappen gained Formula One`s 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone on Sunday (August 9, 2020) to finish Mercedes` dominant begin to the season and change into Lewis Hamilton`s closest challenger.
In a race dictated by tyre put on and technique, six-times world champion Hamilton swept previous Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas two laps from the tip to take second place and keep 30 factors clear within the standings.
Hamilton, who gained an additional level for quickest lap, additionally equalled Ferrari nice Michael Schumacher`s document of 155 profession podium finishes and prolonged his personal unmatched scoring run to 38 races in a row.
“I didn`t see it coming, but after the first stint it seemed like we were really good on tyres,” mentioned Verstappen as he celebrated a ninth profession win that lifted him to 77 factors with Hamilton on 107.
“I didn`t really have a lot of tyre issues at all. We just kept pushing.”
An sad Bottas dropped to 3rd general on 73 factors after beginning on pole place in a race run, like all of the others, with out spectators as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
“As a team, we were sleeping at some point when Max managed to get ahead of us and my strategy was far, far from ideal. Lots to learn from today, I think,” mentioned Finn.
Mercedes had gained the delayed season`s 4 earlier races and brought each pole, however Verstappen was alone among the many prime 10 on the grid to start out on the onerous tyres and it paid off in a race celebrating the championship`s beginning at Silverstone in 1950.
Mercedes had been aware that Hamilton and Bottas had each suffered late blowouts on the earlier weekend`s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, when Hamilton gained on three wheels, in making an attempt to eke out a one-stopper.
Pirelli had introduced softer tyres this time and Mercedes had been struggling in a fast-changing two-stop race with Verstappen capable of run an extended first stint to grab the initiative.
“The tyre`s not going to blow, right? ,” Hamilton requested about his rear left with 17 laps to go. “We think it`s OK. It`s just the blistering,” got here the reply.
Verstappen`s confidence all through was evident, the teenager replying to a crew warning about his tyres by saying he was not about to take a seat behind “like a grandma”.
“We haven`t really had an opportunity in all the races so far to push them and I could see we were pushing them. I tried to put the pressure on, they had to pit, I did my own pace,” he mentioned.
Hamilton in the end made his second pitstop with 11 laps to go, utilizing his contemporary tyres to shortly cross Ferrari`s Charles Leclerc earlier than focusing on Bottas.
Leclerc ended up fourth after doing only one cease.
His teammate Sebastian Vettel, a four-time world champion who’s leaving on the finish of the 12 months, had one other dismal afternoon — spinning on the opening lap and lucky to not take out different vehicles earlier than dropping to final and ending 12th.
Red Bull`s Alexander Albon took fifth and the Racing Points of Lance Stroll and stand-in Nico Hulkenberg had been sixth and seventh.
Hulkenberg had began third as a substitute for COVID-positive Mexican Sergio Perez however his hopes of a primary podium on the 178th try light at first and he ended up making three stops.
Renault`s Esteban Ocon was eighth with McLaren`s Lando Norris ninth and Russian Daniil Kvyat taking the ultimate level for AlphaTauri.
The sixth spherical of the championship is at Barcelona`s Circuit de Catalunya subsequent weekend.
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