The Grand Prix of Russia began with the usual one-two between Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Hamilton started from pole-position, but Rosberg pursued his teammate and blew past it. In the first turn However, catch action cost him his lead and with a good result, which Hamilton won the race yet
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Lewis Hamilton extends his lead in the world championship on pursuer Nico Rosberg with the victory in the GP of Russia Photo:. AFP
Rosberg had immediately after overtaking the pits to change tires. After his stop German driver tried to drive towards the points. He continued, partly by continuing not to change his tires a marvelous race down and finished second, almost 20 seconds behind winner Hamilton.
Hamilton benefits
Hamilton was ultimately the smiling winner. The Briton misjudged ugly at the start where he left with enough speed, but are set free inside. Rosberg took advantage of that hole, but had too much additional braking, which cost him his tires. As a result, Hamilton was able to save the race forward and strengthen its leading position in the World Championship standings.
It marked the 9th GP victory of this season for Hamilton. Are ahead of number two Rosberg is now 17 points, 291 to 274 points. Daniel Ricciardo is the number 3 of the standings. He was only 7th in Russia and thus earned 6 points. Thus he comes to a total of 199 points.
Bottas fastest
Valtteri Bottas scored with 1.41,830 surprisingly the fastest lap on the circuit Sochi and the driver of Williams was eventually 3rd. The 1-2 is the Mercedes racing team already assured the manufacturers’ title
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