Lewis Hamilton won the 2020 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix for Mercedes ahead of Valtteri Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo.
Pos | # | Driver | Car | Laps | Time/gap | Difference | Reason |
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1 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 63 | 1hr 28m 32.430s | ||
2 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 63 | 5.783 | 5.783 | |
3 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | Renault | 63 | 14.320 | 8.537 | |
4 | 26 | Daniil Kvyat | AlphaTauri-Honda | 63 | 15.141 | 0.821 | |
5 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 63 | 19.111 | 3.970 | |
6 | 11 | Sergio Perez | Racing Point-Mercedes | 63 | 19.652 | 0.541 | |
7 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jnr | McLaren-Renault | 63 | 20.230 | 0.578 | |
8 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren-Renault | 63 | 21.131 | 0.901 | |
9 | 7 | Kimi Raikkonen | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 63 | 22.224 | 1.093 | |
10 | 99 | Antonio Giovinazzi | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 63 | 26.398 | 4.174 | |
11 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams-Mercedes | 63 | 27.135 | 0.737 | |
12 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 63 | 28.453 | 1.318 | |
13 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Racing Point-Mercedes | 63 | 29.163 | 0.710 | |
14 | 8 | Romain Grosjean | Haas-Ferrari | 63 | 32.935 | 3.772 | |
15 | 23 | Alexander Albon | Red Bull-Honda | 63 | 57.284 | 24.349 | |
Not classified | |||||||
63 | George Russell | Williams-Mercedes | 51 | 12 laps | 12 laps | Accident | |
33 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull-Honda | 50 | 13 laps | 1 lap | Tyre | |
20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 47 | 16 laps | 3 laps | Gearbox | |
31 | Esteban Ocon | Renault | 27 | 36 laps | 20 laps | Gearbox | |
10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri-Honda | 8 | 55 laps | 19 laps | Power unit |
Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton
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2020 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix
- Gasly says potential lost podium at Imola was his most painful retirement yet
- An F1 marshal explains why Stroll’s Imola near-miss raises safety concerns
- McLaren must seek “smallest gains” in qualifying to fight for third
- Pirelli begins probe into Verstappen tyre failure
- 2020 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix Star Performers
Jere (@jerejj)
1st November 2020, 13:46
Albon out, Perez in.
Patrick (@paeschli)
1st November 2020, 13:55
Or Hülkenberg
RocketTankski
1st November 2020, 14:22
Albon finished aheah of Max (again). I think his seat is secure now.. :-)
RocketTankski
1st November 2020, 14:43
By that logic Mercedes should employ at least one German driver, and Max should drive for Spyker. Nationalism aside, Albon is beginning to look more like an embarrassment than a hero. So maybe he should race under UK flag instead. He is a talented driver for sure, but just can’t tame the Bull.
Steve (@scbriml)
1st November 2020, 14:51
It’s clear they need a better driver than Albon. They actually have quite a few options.
Gusmaia
1st November 2020, 15:29
I dont get criticism on Albon: almost every race this season he finished ahead the 4x champion Vettel.
Duncan Idaho (@didaho)
2nd November 2020, 4:29
Speaking of the former champion – I could have sworn at one point when he was going long on mediums that he was 28-30 seconds clear of the pack containing Sainz and Norris – very nice overcut. Ferrari kept him out another few laps – aren’t offering him any favours now.
Felix
1st November 2020, 13:56
Lewis Hamilton wins Imola f1 and constructors championship
Win for legend Senna also
Poor results for max and rusell
Sensord4notbeingafanboi (@peartree)
1st November 2020, 14:00
Sham, absolute sham, it is scripted wwe. f1 needs to stand up against the powerful teams. They pulled another Ocon, Monaco, Brazil and Imola.
Sham (@sham)
1st November 2020, 14:04
@peartree what did I do? ;)
Lewis had enough anyway, no VSC and he would have just stayed out two more laps and jumped ahead.
Expect a few tin foil hats from the Hamilton heaters, though.
Steve (@scbriml)
1st November 2020, 14:52
What was scripted?
Sviat
1st November 2020, 14:02
George starts to disappoint. Every time he has a chance to finish in the points, he botches up somehow. Today, he could’ve finished in the 9th place. He never put a foot wrong in his Formula 2 championship season, but now he struggles. That’s really bad. He needs to up his game, otherwise Mercedes will start thinking again about their choice of drivers. May it happen that Russell is just another Ocon? (Ocon also showed zero progress in his second season, and now Ocon being trashed by not-so-fast Ricciardo shows that the Frenchman is above average at best.)
Hopefully, I am wrong, but it seems that George doesn’t improve much. If he doesn’t get a point in his third season with Williams, I don’t think I would consider him for a top seat anymore.
Dave
1st November 2020, 14:12
Ricciardo third. I came for the third time yet again.
Rott
1st November 2020, 15:37
Such a happy podium today. The two best Drivers in the grid shared the podium with Bottas.
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Shoe-Ey was so so fantastic to watch, made us all smile. Don’t like COVID-19!
Dave
1st November 2020, 21:27
Did you came?
Dave
22nd November 2020, 16:15
Uh-oh, target in sight!
Aldoid
1st November 2020, 14:19
Gutted for Russel, Bottas & Max. Lewis was super lucky today, but he gained more from Bottas picking up damage on lap 2 & Verstappen pitting early than he did from the VSC. He’d already made the gap & was prepared to even go a bit longer & run the quicker tire next stint. He would have come out ahead with a good pitstop, or been just behind on quicker tires. Charles making Ferrari look good they in turn make Seb look bad… same old… Great drives from Kvyat & Ricciardo as well. Finally, Albon looking rubbish as usual.
Rott
1st November 2020, 15:44
Bottas ran over a debris he knows it was there. Max over-drove the car as usual and this time tyre exploded before the engine parts could. Russel crashed all by himself behind a safety car. You are gutted for all the wrong reasons and persons! 😀😀😀😀
Lewis showed you how it’s done. FollowEd max at a close distance without damaging the tyres. Drove without running over debris. Opened taps on Bottas and built up a nearly 29 Sec lead which would have been more than 35 seconds if he pitted as per the +10 extension.
Remember, the race is 66 laps long, as the great Fernando once said. The only thing matters is who crosses the finish line first.
RIP.
Rockgod (@rockgod)
1st November 2020, 17:14
You’re so tiring!
Dave
4th December 2020, 16:21
You’re so incorrect.
Bottas was being a Barrichello, Max was sabotaged and Russell was cursed.
Qeki (@qeki)
1st November 2020, 14:23
Russell, Russell, Russell..
F1 frog (@f1frog)
1st November 2020, 14:24
It was a shame for Perez not to end up on the podium, but to be fair Racing Point had a difficult decision to make. If Perez had stayed out but Ricciardo, Leclerc etc. had pitted, he would have also lost third place. It was a case of Renault being likely to come out on top as long as they did the opposite to Perez, but the same as Leclerc and those behind. And Perez arguably shouldn’t have been there in the first place as he was only there because of the ridiculous Q2 tyre rule, which just gives the top three a greater advantage, punishes 4-10, then helps out those behind.
J_Olivier
1st November 2020, 14:37
Disagree. In a track where overtaking was near to impossible why would anybody think that we would lose the third place by not stopping. The risky strategy -the wrong strategy- was to pit him.
In the other hand Perez was the only driver from behind tenth place in the grid to get into the points, so it was not the tyre rule the main factor for it.
F1 frog (@f1frog)
1st November 2020, 14:40
I think that if Perez had been third on old hards and Ricciardo had been fourth on new softs, Riccardo would almost certainly have got him at the restart. The same would be true the other way around. Riccardo was protected by Leclerc and Albon being on the same strategy as him.
F1 frog (@f1frog)
1st November 2020, 14:43
And while not did require some excellent driving and tyre management to get Perez in that position, (something that Ocon was unable to do), he still wouldn’t have been there if Ricciardo, Albon, Leclerc, Kvyat, Sainz and Norris had also started on the mediums. Vettel, Raikkonen, Latifi and Magnussen showed that it was not just Perez who could run long on those tyres.
F1 frog (@f1frog)
1st November 2020, 14:37
The way it used to be, with drivers starting on the tyre they used in Q3, was so much better. It was scrapped because drivers who would be near the bottom of the top ten anyway didn’t go out to do a lap in Q3 at all, but seeing as their laps are very rarely shown on TV it wouldn’t be too much of a loss. In fact, it would probably make Q3 more exciting because someone like Hamilton could choose to give up a couple of positions on the grid to start on the medium tyres, a far greater risk than the one they take by running mediums in Q2, as they always get in anyway. That would also spice up the action at the front in the race. I think it would be worth having one or two fewer cars in track in Q3 to stop 11-20 and the fastest few being given such an advantage over the bottom half of the top ten.
Ron
1st November 2020, 14:42
Overtaking is very difficult here mate Perez should have stayed out.
F1 frog (@f1frog)
1st November 2020, 14:46
In hindsight, staying out would have been better, but had Riccardo, Leclerc and Albon pitted while Perez stayed out he would still have lost third. Racing Point didn’t know that they would do that.
F1 frog (@f1frog)
1st November 2020, 14:49
Remember how in the Austrian GP, Racing Point were in a similar situation and chose for Perez to stay out, while the likes of Norris and Sainz pitted under the safety car, and he lost out that day too. Obviously it was an easier track to overtake on, but it still shows that if multiple cars behind do the opposite of one car ahead, the one ahead usually will lose out.
Ron
1st November 2020, 14:46
Regardless it does not take away from the fact that for Perez having no experience on this track he did a stellar job.
F1 frog (@f1frog)
1st November 2020, 14:51
He did do extremely well. Considering Albon was given two races to prove himself and scored zero points, while Perez drove two outstanding races, I hope this convinces Horner to sign Perez and drop Albon to Alpha Tauri.
Jorge Lardone (@jorge-lardone)
1st November 2020, 14:49
Another exceptional performance from Leclerc, placing fifth a car that due to its performance is not qualified to enter the top 10.
Another terrible career for Russell, completely overrated by the English press, who has shown that he does not deserve to be on the grid.
The same happened with Albon, a paid driver who is only racing because he is Thai like the owners of his Red Bull team.
And as we are already used to it, Hamilton dazzling with his extraordinary capacity and Bottas wasting another chance to win.
Ricciardo continues to show that although he is not a Hamilton or a Leclerc or a Vettel, he is there to fight for the lead if his car responds to him.
David Bondo
1st November 2020, 16:08
Sad day for the sport today.
Mercedes last week refused to put Bottas on alternative tyres because it wouldn’t be fair to Hamilton, this week pit Bottas early then let Hamilton who had nothing to lose in third run a much longer contra strategy to to jump Bottas. It certainly wasn’t to jump Verstappen because Hamilton would have eventually done that in the much quicker car.
Bono could have at least pretended it’s a fair fight between the two drivers. Never heard him so determined to beat Bottas.
When you consider Mercedes have had 13/13 poles, 11/13 front row lockouts, won 11/13 races, it’s kind of pathetic that they go to these lengths to put one over on Bottas.
Balue (@balue)
1st November 2020, 21:34
Yes, I very much doubt they would have done the same if it was the other way around. It’s almost a given. But that’s the nature of Mercedes. They are like what Ferrari used to be.
Will Bryan (@willbryan)
2nd November 2020, 1:41
Totally agreed and thank you for mentioning it. Not a word from the Sky team about it during commentary. Bottas begged to get a contra strategy past couple of races and was denied. Suddenly Lewis is on the back foot and their completly going leftfield and switching it up. Doesn’t make sense. Well it does of course.
Sham (@sham)
2nd November 2020, 14:05
Except it was Bottas on the back foot due to damage.
It made absolute sense for him to cover of Verstappen and for the other car to follow a normal strategy.