F1 Monza Continued
Raikkonen set a couple of fastest laps but never looked like doing better than fourth behind his team mate, but the red cars were well ahead of Ricciardo who battled hard with Bottas and used better tyre strategy to deprive the Finn of fifth place six laps from home.
Like Hamilton, Verstappen paid a high price for a poor start which saw him slump to 11th. He too spent the rest of the afternoon trying to recover, but had to settle for seventh after catching and passing Perez.
Mercedes remain well ahead in the constructor’s stakes with 488 points, but Ferrari have edged closer to Red Bull with 279 to their 290. Williams move back to fourth on 111, with Force India on 108.
Mercedes remain well ahead in the constructor’s stakes with 488 points, but Ferrari have edged closer to Red Bull with 279 to their 290. Williams move back to fourth on 111, with Force India on 108.
Amongst the close-but-clean racing, incidents were few, though Renault’s Jolyon Palmer and Sauber’s Felipe Nasr tangled at Turn 2 on the second lap; both failed to finish and Nasr was given a 10s penalty for causing their collision.
Of those who did get to the end, Jenson Button battled with and beat McLaren team mate Fernando Alonso and was only half a second behind the one-stopping, 11th placed Haas of Romain Grosjean by the flag. Esteban Gutierrez, another to make a terrible start, was 13th in the second Haas as a late stop for supersofts took Alonso to 14th and the fastest lap of the race.
Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz led Sauber’s Marcus Ericsson and Renault’s Kevin Magnussen home, as Pascal Wehrlein joined Palmer and Nasr in retirement when told to switch off his Manor’s Mercedes power unit. Daniil Kvyat was the other non-finisher, the Russian pulling his Toro Rosso into the pits to retire after 36 laps.
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