Race Results 2019 Russian F1 Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton wins the 2019 Russian F1 GP for the 4th time

Event: Russian Grand Prix
Track: Sochi Street Circuit

Weather: Dry 22.1-22.6°C
Tarmac: Dry  35.1-33.6°C
Humidity: 66.1%
Wind: 1.6 m/s SSE
Pressure: 1017 bar

Lewis Hamilton won the 2019 Russian F1 GP. He started from P2 and won his 82nd F1 race in Sochi. It was the 98th victory for Mercedes and Hamilton's 9th win of the 2019 season. 

The run to the first corner is over 900 meters. It took quite long before the red lights turned off this time and all cars got away clean. Sebastian Vettel in the Ferrari and Carlos Sainz in the McLaren had a very good start and could attack the guys in front.

Vettel who was on P3 could pass the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and got a slipstream of his team mate Charles Leclerc. Vettel also overtook Leclerc and he turned in on P1 for the first corner. Sainz almost overtook Hamilton for P3, but Hamilton defend the inside of the corner, Sainz had to settle for 4th.

Start of the 2019 Russian F1 GP

In turn 4 Antonio Giovinazzi got sandwiched in the braking zone by Romain Grosjean and Daniel Ricciardo. The Italian driver could not avoid a collision and a retirement of Grosjean's Haas and a rear left puncture for Ricciardo was the result. By miracle the Alfa Romeo driver could go on without any damage. A virtual safety car was needed to recover the damaged car of Grosjean. Ricciardo drove slow enough to not damage his car with his flat tyre and returned to the track as last on the hard tyre to drive out the race.

In lap 6 a Ferrari radio message was broadcasted in which Leclerc's engineer tells him that Vettel will let him by for the lead. One lap later Kimi Raikkonen received a drive through penalty for his false start with the Alfa Romeo, to make his miserable weekend in Russia even worse.

Nico Hulkenberg who was driving on P9 was the first to do his pitstop to switch to hard tyres. The pits stop took over 6 seconds, because the jackman on the front made a mistake.

Lewis Hamilton wins the 2019 Russian F1 GP for the 4th time

Leclerc who was still driving on P2 pitted in lap 23 to go to medium tyres. His pitstop took 2.5s and returned on P4. Race leader Vettel boxed in lap 27. His pitstop took 3.0s and Vettel ended up on P3 behind Leclerc. Hamilton had become race leader and was driving on medium tyres that last a lot longer than the soft tyres of Ferrari.

In lap 28 Vettel had a technical problem and had to stop the SF90 that caused a virtual safety car. All drivers who still had to do their stop came in. Hamilton also pitted and even came back on track before Leclerc. When the virtual safety car ended George Russell lost control of the Williams. He ended up in the barrier and a safety car was needed to recover his damaged car.

In lap 33 the safety car was gone and the whole pack was racing again. The position were all mixed up because of the 2 safety car period. Hamilton was on P1, Bottas on P2, Leclerc on P3 and Verstappen on P4.

Although the Ferrari of Leclerc has a much higher top speed than the Mercedes of Bottas, the Monegasque driver could not pass the Finn for P2.

Until lap 49 Hamilton had the extra point for the fastest lap of the race in the pocket. In lap 52 he even improved the fastest lap to collect the extra point.

Classification 2019 Russian GP

P	No	Driver	Team	Time	Laps	Grid	Pts
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	01:33:38.992	53	2	26
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	01:33:42.821	53	4	18
3	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	01:33:44.204	53	1	15
4	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	01:33:53.202	53	9	12
5	23	Alex Albon	Red Bull	01:34:17.340	53	20	10
6	55	Carlos Sainz	McLaren	01:34:24.881	53	5	8
7	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point	01:34:27.720	53	11	6
8	4	Lando Norris	McLaren	01:34:36.741	53	7	4
9	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	01:34:37.771	53	13	2
10	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	01:34:38.833	53	6	1
11	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	01:34:39.813	53	14	0
12	26	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso	01:34:41.488	53	19	0
13	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	01:34:47.902	53	15	0
14	10	Pierre Gasly	Toro Rosso	01:34:49.068	53	16	0
15	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	01:34:52.338	53	12	0
DNF	88	Robert Kubica	Williams	Strategic	28	18	0
DNF	63	George Russell	Williams	Front Axle	27	17	0
DNF	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	MGU-K	26	3	0
DNF	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	Collision damage	24	10	0
DNF	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	Collision	0	8	0

Penalties:

• Kevin Magnussen, Haas no. 8 received a 5-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

Fastest lap : 1.35.761 min by Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W10 no. 44 in lap 51
Highest speed : 340.4 km/h by Alexander Albon, Red Bull no, 23

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