Chinanews Client, April 19th. On the evening of the 18th, Beijing time, the F1 Imola Grand Prix came to an end.
In the end, Red Bull driver Verstappen won the championship with an absolute advantage and won his first race championship of the season.
Hamilton, who made a mistake in the game and fell to the middle of the game, eventually won the runner-up.
The McLaren team Norris finished third and was on the podium for the second time in his career.
F1 Imola final ranking.
In the qualifying competition the day before, Hamilton scored 1:14.411 and won his first pole position of the season. Perez and Verstappen of the Red Bull Racing team ranked second and third, and Perez scored 0.035. He missed pole position, which was the first time he started on the first row in his career.
After the race started, Hamilton's car was flanked by two Red Bull cars. Verstappen collided with Hamilton while cornering, causing damage to the front nose of Hamilton's car.
Verstappen finally grabbed the first place at the start!
On the first lap, Latifi accidentally collided with Ma Zeping next to him while driving. The vehicle hit the retaining wall and was severely damaged. A safety car was dispatched.
Perez was in the safety car situation, the car slid off the track and lost two positions, but the car was not damaged.
However, Perez received a 10-second penalty due to overtaking two cars under the safety car.
On lap 31, there were frequent accidents on the track.
First, Hamilton accidentally slipped off the track during the lap and fell into a buffer zone. Fortunately, the car was not damaged. After returning the car to the track, the ranking had slipped to 9th.
Subsequently, a serious accident occurred between Russell and Bottas!
When Russell tried to overtake Bottas, both cars slid off the track after a collision.
The vehicle was seriously damaged, a large amount of debris was scattered on the track, the safety car was dispatched, and the red flag was dispatched afterwards.
On lap 34, the race resumed, and Norris, who started with a soft tyre, quickly surpassed Leclerc to second place.
At the same time, Hamilton, who was in the middle reaches, kept surpassing the vehicles in front of him and gradually approached the group in front.
Norris, Leclerc, Sainz and Hamilton fought for second place.
On laps 50 and 55, Hamilton surpassed Sainz and Leclerc's two Ferraris, returned to the podium position, and quickly approached the DRS area in front of Norris.
On the 60th lap, Hamilton surpassed Norris and returned to second place, but at this time the time difference between him and the lead Verstappen was more than 20 seconds.
In the end, Verstappen successfully crossed the line in first place and won the first championship of the season. Hamilton finished runner-up and Norris finished third on the podium. The two Ferrari drivers Leclerc and Sainz ranked fourth and fifth respectively; sixth to tenth were: Ricardo, Stoll, Gasley, Raikkonen, Ocon. (Finish)