Lewis Hamilton Wins Spanish Grand Prix

By Daily sports on August 17, 2020

Lewis Hamilton dominated the Spanish Grand Prix to take his fourth victory in six races so far this year.

The Mercedes driver led every lap from pole position and was simply too fast for Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who was unable to challenge.

Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas took third, failing to catch Verstappen despite Mercedes' efforts on strategy.

Hamilton's win extended his World Championship lead to 37 points over Verstappen, who is six ahead of Bottas.

It was the 88th victory of Hamilton's career and he is now just three from Michael Schumacher's all-time record of wins.

It was also his 156th podium finish, a new record, beating the previous mark, also held by Schumacher. 

In temperatures of 30C, the race was gruelling physically for all the drivers, but there was no sign of the expected challenge to Hamilton from Verstappen.

Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff had said on the eve of the race that Verstappen was favourite because he had shown stronger pace when the teams were doing their race preparation in practice.

But once converting his pole position into a lead at the first corner, Hamilton was always in command.

He took it easy in the opening laps, to ensure he could make his required pit-stop schedule but after 10 laps started to increase the pace and Verstappen could not keep up.

"I was just in a daze out there," Hamilton said. "It felt really good. It was a surprise because we had this problem with the tyres [at the last race] and the work we did was what meant we could do this." (BBC)

•PHOTO: Lewis Hamilton

 

Source Daily sports

Posted August 17, 2020


 

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