Verstappen and Räikkönen didn't get those memos. Pirelli predicted a three-stop race as the fastest and that the medium tire could only go about 23 laps. Verstappen pitted on Laps 12 and 35, Räikkönen pitted on Laps 13 and 36. Ricciardo pitted on Laps 11 and 28, Vettel pitted on Laps 15 and 37. The stewards deemed it a racing incident.įerraris cleared Sainz by Lap 10, leaving 56 laps for them to haul in theįerrari loosely followed Red Bull's pit strategies. When Hamilton spun, he collected Rosberg and both Rosberg, however, closed the door so suddenly that Hamilton had no choice but to drive onto the grass. Hamilton closed in on Rosberg so quickly that once the Brit ducked inside for the pass, he couldn't back out. After Rosberg passed pole-sitter Hamilton into Turn 1, Rosberg's car slowed through Turn 3, somehow in the wrong mode. Lewis Hamilton took each other out on Lap 1.

The racing gods edited that script this year, when a first-lap crash and two mid-race strategy changes kept things open until the end of the 66-lap race. The front row of the grid produced 23 winners in the past 25 years. Before this weekend, the pole-sitter won the race 19 times out of the last 25 years. Hungaroring fly the flag for processional races, yet Spain's Circuit de Catalunya is arguably as bad.

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