Max Verstappen produced a dominant show in Imola to seal his second victory of the season forward of teammate Sergio Perez, main a Crimson Bull one-two on the 2022 Formulation 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
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The Dutchman topped Saturday’s Dash and led off the road on Sunday, teammate Perez becoming a member of him on the entrance – whereas Leclerc momentarily dropped to fourth. The Security Automobile emerged on the opening lap as Daniel Ricciardo tipped Carlos Sainz into the gravel and out of the race for the second Grand Prix.
With the observe drying, drivers started to swap from inters to mediums on Lap 19 – Perez coming in earlier than Verstappen, who led Leclerc into the pits one lap later. The Monegasque emerged simply forward of the Mexican, however Perez skated previous for P2 with hotter tyres after which stored the Ferrari at bay.
A late gamble to pit for softs from P3 from Leclerc noticed the Crimson Bulls observe swimsuit and retain the lead, however on Lap 54 – once more in chase of Perez – the championship chief spun and hit the wall at Variante Alta. He dropped all the way down to ninth having needed to pit for a brand new nostril and softs and recovered solely to P6 on the flag.
Lando Norris, due to this fact, took the ultimate podium place, promoted twice with Sainz retiring and Leclerc going off observe. Mercedes’ George Russell loved a superb begin and was up seven locations to P4 because the chequered flag loomed, holding off Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas by beneath a second regardless of a late duel with the motive force he changed on the Silver Arrows.
Yuki Tsunoda completed seventh for AlphaTauri, passing Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel (P8) late on – whereas Leclerc completed forward of the pair along with his late rescue effort.
Haas’s Kevin Magnussen ran as excessive as P5 thanks to a different blistering begin however fell again down the order to ninth. Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll rounded out the highest 10, a double-points haul for the workforce that entered Imola on zero.
Alex Albon’s strong exhibiting put him eleventh, forward of AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly – who couldn’t pry his well past even with DRS (which was activated when the observe was deemed dry sufficient on Lap 34). Lewis Hamilton was subsequent, the Mercedes driver having been unceremoniously lapped by Verstappen on Lap 40, to complete thirteenth – Esteban Ocon ending eleventh however dropping to 14th because of a five-second penalty for an unsafe launch.
Zhou Guanyu began from the pit lane after his Dash crash, the Alfa Romeo driver taking P15 forward of Williams’ Nicholas Latifi.
In seventeenth was Mick Schumacher, the Haas driver having spun twice on Sunday afternoon – whereas Daniel Ricciardo was final and 18th after his Lap 1 tangle with Sainz, pitting once more for hards halfway by the race in a fruitless technique.
Together with Sainz, compatriot Fernando Alonso was the opposite DNF having misplaced a piece of his sidepod, Schumacher having misplaced management and hit the Alpine’s flanks on Lap 1.
Mario Isola – Head of F1 and automobile racing at Pirelli commented:
At first of the race, the intermediates labored properly over a fairly lengthy stint, as was anticipated. I used to be slightly bit shocked although that everybody selected the medium slightly than the mushy as soon as the observe had dried, within the cool and nonetheless damp circumstances, they had been clearly desirous about going all the way in which to the tip, and that’s precisely what most of the drivers did. Ferrari got here up with an fascinating technique, which was then copied by Crimson Bull, to go for the quickest lap with the mushy tyre on the finish. The medium confirmed spectacular adaptability over lengthy runs as a result of the rain on Friday meant that the groups simply had an hour on Saturday morning to grasp it, with a most run of solely round 20 laps doable. Regardless of that restricted info, we noticed lengthy runs of 40 laps with no points. Effectively carried out to Crimson Bull, but in addition to the incredible dwelling crowd right here at Imola, which all the time exhibits such passionate assist.
2022 Formulation 1 Australian GP Race Outcomes
| Pos | No | Driver | Nation | Group | Time | Factors | General |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 | Max Verstappen | Netherlands | Crimson Bull Racing | 1:32:07.986 | 26 | 51 |
| 2. | 11 | Sergio Perez | Mexico | Crimson Bull Racing Honda | +16.527s | 18 | 48 |
| 3. | 4 | Lando Norris | Nice Britain | Mclaren Racing | +34.834s | 15 | 31 |
| 4. | 63 | George Russell | Nice Britain | Mercedes-AMG Petronas | +42.506s | 12 | 49 |
| 5. | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Finland | Alfa Romeo F1 Group | +43.181s | 10 | 22 |
| 6. | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Monaco | Scuderia Ferrari | +56.072s | 8 | 79 |
| 7. | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Japan | Scuderia AlphaTauri | +61.110s | 6 | 10 |
| 8. | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Germany | Aston Martin F1 Group | +70.892s | 4 | 4 |
| 9. | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Denmark | Haas F1 Group | +75.260s | 2 | 14 |
| 10. | 18 | Lance Stroll | Canada | Aston Martin F1 Group | +1 lap | 1 | 1 |
| 11. | 23 | Alexander Albon | Thailand | Williams Racing | +1 lap | 0 | 1 |
| 12. | 10 | Pierre Gasly | France | Scuderia AlphaTauri | +1 lap | 0 | 6 |
| 13. | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Nice Britain | Mercedes-AMG Petronas | +1 lap | 0 | 28 |
| 14. | 31 | Esteban Ocon | France | Alpine F1 Group | +1 lap | 0 | 20 |
| 15. | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | China | Alfa Romeo F1 Group | +1 lap | 0 | 1 |
| 16. | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Canada | Williams Racing | +1 lap | 0 | 0 |
| 17. | 47 | Mick Schumacher | Germany | Haas F1 Group | +1 lap | 0 | 0 |
| 18. | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Australia | McLaren Racing | +1 lap | 0 | 8 |
| 17. | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Spain | Alpine F1 Group | DNF | 0 | 2 |
| 20. | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Spain | Scuderia Ferrari | DNF | 0 | 33 |
2022 Constructor Standings
Listed here are the team-by-team highlights:
