Champion Lewis Hamilton fastest in final practice at Brazilian GP
Other Sports | November 16, 2019 23:00 ISTHamilton was 0.026 seconds quicker than Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at Interlagos.
Hamilton was 0.026 seconds quicker than Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at Interlagos.
Hamilton wrapped up his sixth career F1 championship with a second-place finish at the U.S. Grand Prix, a race he led late until surrendering the position to Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas in the final laps.
Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel will start second place with Red Bull's Max Verstappen at third and Charles Leclerc of Ferrari at fourth.
Only Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas' third-place finish denied Hamilton the season championship by the slimmest of margins.
Lewis Hamilton coasted to a comfortable victory and led a Mercedes one-two finish at the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday to tighten his grip on a sixth World Championship.
Ferrari registered its first Formula 1 win since October last year as Charles Leclerc held his nerve to edge past Lewis Hamilton, who finished second.
Lewis Hamilton extended his lead at the top of the F1 standings with a thrilling win in the Hungarian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton is now only 10 wins behind seven-time F1 champion Michael Schumacher's record of 91.
Lewis Hamilton clocked the fastest lap in the free practice on Friday ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.
The disappointment continued for Ferrari, as both the cars faced technical issues, while Lewis Hamilton clinched the pole position at the German Grand Prix.
By beating Bottas by almost 25 seconds, Hamilton extended his championship lead over the Finn to 39 points and moved ahead of Jim Clark and Alain Prost to take the record for British GP victories.
"I don't understand why the organisers put the race on the same day as all these other big events," Hamilton said on Thursday at Silverstone in the pre-race press conference.
Lewis Hamilton's win looked easy as he finished 18 seconds ahead of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and 19 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.
Sebastian Vettel had been given a five-second time penalty for an incident which happened with a little more than 20 laps to go and despite Vettel taking the checkered flag, that penalty gave Lewis Hamilton the win.
Niki Lauda, who died on May 20, had played a key role in bringing Hamilton to Mercedes in 2013 and the two had become close friends.
Hamilton's third win of the campaign let him take the championship lead by seven points over Bottas, who had entered the race with a one-point advantage.
That was the fourth straight one-two finish for Mercedes, the best start to a season by a two-car team in Formula One history.
Hamilton compared Leclerc's situation to his own debut season at McLaren in 2007, when he was alongside then-reigning champion Fernando Alonso.
Lewis Hamilton and teammate Valtteri Bottas completed their third straight double in Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton won at a canter despite Mercedes lagging behind the red Ferraris for most of the race in Bahrain.
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