Lewis Hamilton wins Chaotic Tuscan GP.The Brit picked up his 90th career win,just one shy of Michel Schumacher’s 91 race wins. After a eventful Italian GP last weekend,Mugello served up an absolute thriller in its first ever Grand Prix, with Mercedes picking another 1-2 finish in an action-packed race that saw two dramatic multi-car crashes within the first nine laps, two red flag stoppages and an exciting finish helped Alex Albon scoring his first F1 podium.
Last Weekend’s Italian GP winner Pierre Gasly and his ex-team mate Max Verstappen’s Tuscan Grands Prix lasted just two corners, with both caught up in a first lap melee at Turn 2,Verstappen having already suffered a power unit issue that saw him fall down the order before getting punted off, with Gasly caught up in the incident as well.Safety car deployed to clear up both Honda customer cars.
Safety Car triggered another huge accident at the Lap 7 race restart, with Carlos Sainz, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kevin Magnussen and Nicholas Latifi all taken out of the race , thankfully without serious injury.
The race red flagged while the debris was cleared up,standing restart helped Hamilton to take lead of the race with a nice tow behind his team mate Bottas. The second red flag came on Lap 45 when Racing Point’s Stroll’s high speed crash at Arrabbiata 2 while holding fourth place due to puncture.Making The first race at Mugello that won’t be soon forgotten.
With Hamilton holding on to take his 90th career win from Bottas, as behind, Albon pulled off a fantastic move on Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo to claim an important third with eight laps of the race to go.
Ricciardo was left to come home fourth, tantalisingly close to his first podium with Renault, as Sergio Perez finished fifth for Racing Point. With just 12 runners classified at the finish, Lando Norris was sixth for McLaren, ahead of the AlphaTauri of Daniil Kvyat, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc classified eighth at the team’s 1,000th Grand Prix.
Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen was ninth after receiving a five-second race penalty, with the second Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel rounding out the top 10. That left Williams’ George Russell 11th, agonisingly close to the team’s first points of the year, while Haas’ Romain Grosjean finished 12th of 12.
Key Highlights of the race
Alex Albon Picks-up his first ever Formula 1 podium
Scary Lap 7 crash
Lance Stroll huge high speed crash
Alex Albon Makes a move on Daniel Ricciardo to take first podium
Hamilton Holds 55 points lead over his team mate in Driver standings after 9 races into 2020 season.Fight for 4th is really interesting, with Norris,Albon,Stroll and Ricciardo all separated by just 12 points.Today’s DNF didn’t help Stroll.
Daniel Ricciardo missed to score first ever podium in Renault colors but he was voted as Driver of the Day by fans.
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