Lewis Hamilton Wins Eifel GP; Equals Michael Schumacher’s File Of Most Wins

On the race presentation, Michael Schumacher’s son, Mick Schumacher, introduced Hamilton with certainly one of his Mercedes race helmets.

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Lewis Hamilton secured the 91st victory of his profession, equalling the report of Michael Schumacher

Lewis Hamilton has equalled Michael Schumacher’s report of the F1 GP wins by successful the Eifel GP on the Nurburgring. Schumacher held the report of 91 race wins, a feat that Hamilton now holds as effectively. The German driver although additionally holds the report for essentially the most world titles at seven. Hamilton, who’s on six world titles, and leads the present championship is on the trail to usurp the legendary German in race wins and equal his report for many titles this yr. 

On the race presentation, Michael Schumacher’s son, Mick Schumacher, introduced Hamilton with certainly one of his Mercedes race helmets. Schumacher gained all his world titles and races with Benneton and Ferrari, however in 2011 he got here out of retirement to race for Mercedes. Hamilton changed Schumacher as soon as the legendary German retired for good. 

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Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen completed in P2 adopted by his former teammate Daniel Ricciardo who scored the primary podium for the Renault group. The race began in an eventful means as each Hamilton and Verstappen overtook Valtteri Bottas who was on pole. Bottas finally retired the race after an engine difficulty. 

Verstappen additionally managed to attain the quickest lap of the race within the final lap. Sergio Perez within the Racing Level managed P4, whereas Carlos Sainz Jr managed P5 within the McLaren and Pierre Gasly managed P6 within the AlphaTauri. 

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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who certified in P4 simply managed to complete in P7 and was overtaken by Ricciardo in Lap 9. He was adopted by Nico Hulkenberg in P8 who was a last-minute addition to the race because the Racing Level driver Lance Stroll had fallen ailing. Romain Grosjean managed P9 for the Haas group whereas Antonio Giovinaazi managed the final level for the Alfa Romeo group. 

Ferrari’s outgoing driver Sebastian Vettel completed simply outdoors of factors at P11 and spent a lot of the race preventing his former teammate Kimi Raikkonen who adopted him in P12 within the different Alfa Romeo, ending his record-breaking race for essentially the most F1 begins outdoors of the factors and in addition gaining a 5-second penalty for crashing into George Russell who retired due to the incident. Kevin Magnussen completed at P13 for the Haas group, whereas Nicholas Latifi completed in P14 within the sole Williams whereas Daniil Kvyat was the final automotive ending at P15. 

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The race was incident susceptible with many drivers struggling for warmth on the tyres. Lando Norris was the final driver to retire with an engine difficulty whose race additionally triggered a security automotive simply earlier than the top of the race which made issues spicy. Alex Albon within the Pink Bull additionally retired due to engine points whereas Esteban Ocon within the Renault discovered his race to grow to be to an finish due to a gearbox difficulty.

Eifel GP Outcomes

1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes

2 Max Verstappen Pink Bull – +four.470s

three Daniel Ricciardo Renault – +14.613s

four Sergio Perez Racing Level – +16.070s

5 Carlos Sainz McLaren – +21.905s

6 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri – +22.766s

7 Charles Leclerc Ferrari – +30.814s

eight Nico Hulkenberg Racing Level – +32.606s

9 Romain Grosjean Haas – +39.081s

10 Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing – +40.035s

11 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari – +40.810s

12 Kimi Raikkonen Alfa Romeo Racing – +41.476s

13 Kevin Magnussen Haas – +49.585s

14 Nicholas Latifi Williams – +54.449s

15 Daniil Kvyat2 AlphaTauri – +55.588s

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Lando Norris McLaren

Alex Albon Pink Bull

Esteban Ocon Renault

Valtteri Bottas Mercedes

George Russell Williams

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