The British Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) He achieved his hundredth victory this Sunday by winning the Russian Grand Prix. The competition was held at the Sochi Autodromo, for the fifteenth date of the Formula 1 World Championship season.
Hamilton He placed first in the race, which also allowed him to be the new leader of the championship by just two points over Max Verstappen (Red Bull), who finished in second place, while Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) achieved third place.
“It took a long time to get to race 100 and sometimes I wasn’t sure if it was going to get there. Lando (Norris) did an incredible job, he had an incredible pace. It was bittersweet to see my old team ahead“, said the current leader of the contest at the end of the competition.
Britain’s Lando Norris (McLaren) had controlled the lead in much of the competition, but a mistake in the strategy when the rain appeared in the final eight laps it slowed him down to seventh.
Behind the top three, it was located Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) in fourth position, while Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) arrived in fifth place and Fernando Alonso (Alpine) finished in sixth place.
Meanwhile, Norris was seventh, while in eighth place he was located Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), the ninth place went to the Mexican Sergio Pérez (Red Bull) and George Russell (Williams) closed the top ten.
With these results, the championship is once again led by Hamilton which adds 246.5 points and leads by two to the Dutch Verstappen, who has 244.5, while in third position is the Finn Bottas with 151.
In addition, in fourth place it is located Lando norris with 139 units, while in the fifth position it is Sergio perez with 120, sixth Carlos Sainz with 112.5, seventh Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) with 104, eighth Daniel Ricciardo with 95, ninth Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri) with 66 and tenth Fernando Alonso with 58.
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