At the Grand Prix of Mexico, Lewis Hamilton can’t beat. The Briton moves from position three to the victory. Ferrari must not ask why in an ideal position to be sufficient.
The sixth world Cup Triumph close up: Lewis Hamilton is the measure of all things in the formula 1
Lewis Hamilton loves the Show. By lift in the Mercedes-Pilot on the Podium heave, and, together with the car. Accompanied by a shower of confetti, the music and the cheers of the Mexican Fans, the Brit is driving on the grandstand, where Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas are already waiting for him. Everything is done according to the taste of Hamilton, the power at the Grand Prix of Mexico is a further step to the world title. Joyfully, he leaps over the Podium and let the Fans celebrate as he would have won the world Cup already. The have to wait, probably only a week until the Grand Prix of the United States. Hamilton white, of course, the overall victory is for him to take almost. He enjoys the Moment, high above to the entire formula 1 circus, the way he looks down. A symbolic image.
“I love to race”
Shortly before that was to see what may Hamilton: “I love to race,” he said an interview in the Victory. Furios, and so it’s Hamilton, not the least bit cautious or safety-propelled as it might have been able to think of one that is only a few points away from a sixth world Cup Triumph in formula 1. Because in the start-up phase, he slightly touched the tire of another car, tried the Ferrari’s past to postpone, to arrange, however, for the time being, behind them. The red racers from Italy defended first of all your top places ahead of the competition.
The row launched the Scuderia raced in the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez is a good race, brought, however, somehow even the well-deserved reward. Because of doubt, strategic decisions are liable to got Ferrari with Vettel and Leclerc suddenly behind Through pit stops, the Italian team lost time and ground on Hamilton and Bottas – and suddenly found himself on the ranks two and four. The Heppenheimer Vettel commented on the tactics of his team, then a lot saying: “It was a good race. But we had a slightly better strategy.”
Ferrari suggests self –
With the special terms and conditions on more than 2200 meters of altitude, Mercedes got along especially well. The car ran well and Bottas, as well as to the top advanced Hamilton were able to control their opponents well. In the “toughest race of the year for us,” (Hamilton) chose the Mercedes over the more appreciated Ferrari’s better tyre strategy: better timed stops, and fast lap times at the end of it brought the decisive advantage. To made a mess of it all off, the Ferrari Crew at Leclerc’s second tyre change, the ambitious sovereign of Monaco lost so unnecessarily, a further four seconds.
With a double pole into the race, with second place and four at the end of not satisfied – Ferrari disappointed
Big loser Max is the verse to fall into. The Mexico-winner of the 2017 and 2018 lost on Saturday, first later his Pole Position, because he was driving under the Yellow the absolute best time of the flag, to slow down instead of clear. After two early skirmishes he had to leave early with a Defect in the Box and started a chase. Which led him to rank six, but he was clearly behind its own claims.
Hamilton and Mercedes are planning a big world Cup Party
Hamilton travels to his 83. Victory in the formula 1 with a thick points cushion to his favorite race in Austin, Texas, next Sunday (starting at 20:00 CET on the DW-Liveblog). Inspired by the 100. Formula 1-the success of Mercedes as a works team in Mexico should be prepared at the German team already for the next world Cup Party. Because in the USA Hamilton is enough for a eighth place to secure the Circuit of the Americas its sixth world Cup on their own power – and to a title of record world champion Michael Schumacher and come closer.
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The race in the Liveblog:
At 21:58: “Lewis is simply rustled. I’m still happy, it was a good race. But we had a slightly better strategy,” said Vettel after the race.
21:56 Uhr: I have some damage to the car, the race was hard. I love to race and I wanted to win here. I am very grateful that I did it. That was a great race,” said Hamilton in the winner Interview.
At 21:54: Hamilton is celebrating like a world champion, but he is already close. The probability is great that the British can make the title at the GP of the United States next weekend.
💥 Kwjat rams Hulkenberg on the last lap and the German is flying, therefore, from the points. But that could have a sequel by the race jury.
“Yeah! Brilliant Work!” Hamilton praised his Team. As you may should now make the champagne cold for the world title, the Mercedes driver in the next race clear.
Lewis Hamilton stretches his arms to the sky – he celebrated his second victory in Mexico to 2016. Scores his appearance, the Briton Vettel holds loose on distance.
🏁 TARGET 🏁 Lewis wins the Grand Prix of Mexico!
Lewis Hamilton drove his Mercedes to the curves and put Ferrari under pressure
Round 71 of 71: Hamilton stands on the brink of victory.
Round 70 of 71: The Podium seems to be made. Hamilton ahead of Vettel and Bottas. Hamilton now in the last round.
Round 69 of 71: Verstappen has now on the sixth place works. A good race from him. But what he could achieve if he had to start his nerves under control?
Lap 68 of 71: Leclerc can be of rank four, not more crucial to the front to Bottas due to work. The Ferrari chasing the Mercedes. However, you will not come – a metaphor for the whole season?
Round 67 of 71: The first three, Hamilton, Vettel and Bottas with nearly identical lap times.
Lap 66 of 71: Five rounds, and there is a big question: Hamilton or Vettel? Much speaks for the British.
Lap 66 of 71: And now, increasing Hamilton’s lead again – so quickly in formula 1.
Round 65 of 71: Hamilton’s tyres are in the TV-Transmission in Super-slow-motion settings under the magnifying glass taken. There are bubbles to recognize, what to wear speak might? A question of faith. To recognize the is not properly. His times are not quite as fast as they used to in this race. But His lead is still large enough.
Round of 64 of 71: Vettel to reduce the deficit to Hamilton to 1.8 seconds. Tendency falling. Something goes in there for the Germans?
Lap 63 of 71: Leclerc makes back pressure on Bottas. Despite his Verbremsers Leclerc is back at the Mercedes in it.
Lap 62 of 71: Ricciardo shoots with Speed, on the inside of Perez’s past, but also on the edge of the track and beyond. The maneuver goes wrong, the Mexicans defended his seventh place and the spectators cheer.
Lap 60 of 71: The Overview of the Leader after 60 rounds…
1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Bottas
4. Leclerc
5. Albon
Lap 60 of 71: Kimi Raikkonen is on the outside. His Alfa Romeo is pushed into the Garage.
Lap 59 of 71: Leclerc missed the curve! There’s too much vigor in the game. The Monegasque probably wanted to catch up with to much Speed on Bottas and under braking is because the front left block tires. With this he had a Problem.
Round 58 of 71: Bottas makes more pressure on Vettel, but from the rear unit of the Mercedes-Pilot, even under pressure – Leclerc approaches.
Round 57 of 71: a Lot of Lapping other cars just. The question is: Who can best on by cheating?
Round 54 of 71: Leclerc moves according to the calculations of the Renncomputers in six rounds on Bottas on. Some Action at the top would do the race well.
Round 53 of 71: still a good atmosphere in the stands. The Mexicans celebrate the race and, of course, Perez is on the 7th rank.
Round 52 of 71: Ferrari can its Speed advantage is not currently playing. Hamilton defended wacker his lead to 2.7 seconds on Vettel.
Round 51 of 71: Lando Norris is excreted. His car is in the Box and the driver is clearly supported.
Lap 50 of 71: The Overview of the Leader after 50 laps…
1. Hamilton
2. Vettel
3. Bottas
4. Leclerc
5. Albon
Lap 50 of 71: Ricciardo with the hard tyres. His strategy is not the worst, because of the Australian Renault-Position driving good lap times and is on rank six.
Round 49 of 71: just before Halloween creeps up, the broken Ghost from pit lane to pit lane. The errors are clustered at the team
Round 47 of 71: 🕓 Vettel is 2.3 seconds behind leader Hamilton. Meanwhile, Leclerc moves with anger over the botched pit stop, a new fastest lap.
Round 46 of 71: Hamilton leads currently. He needs to come back in?
Round 44 of 71: Leclerc with a Problem at the Box. A percussion drill is not working properly and the Ferrari must be longer than planned wait at the Box. The mechanic gestures energized, while the Monegasque drives off. Leclerc is now Fourth.
Round 43 of 71: Verstappen is now in Seventh and has 59 seconds behind the leader Leclerc. The Dutchman has made up a lot, but this is still a long way to go…
Round 42 of 71: Hamilton could today still the world champion crown. He is on rank two, team-mate Bottas is Fifth. This means Hamilton still has a space to the front and he would have the necessary edge to win the world Cup.
Round 40 of 71: 🕓 fastest lap from Vettel, on a rank four back fell, but with its strategy well in the race is. Excluding the stops, he is likely to be on course for Victory. The toughest adversary is none other than Hamilton.
Round 40 of 71: The Overview of the Leader after 40 rounds…
1. Leclerc
2. Hamilton
3. Albon
4. Vettel
5. Bottas
Round 38 of 71: Verstappen makes meanwhile, further ground, and chasing his Red Bull to the curves. In the meantime, he is on rank 8.
Round 38 of 71: Vettel now in the Box, and thereby to rank the four fallen.
Round 37 of 71: Mexico is a course with long Straights, but also a few technical curves, the drivers demand a lot from. Here, nerve and endurance are required, in order to keep centrifugal forces to intercept, and the concentration.
Round 35 of 71: Vettel now sits a bunch of riders in the neck. The blue flag is waved as the overhaul note. The target for Vettel must be a swift Overtaking manoeuvre.
Round 34 of 71: Vettel with 4.8 seconds ahead of Bottas and a further 6.0 seconds on Leclerc.
Round 32 of 71: The Thai Alexander Albon’s driving a good race, continues in the Top Five. Be projection to the rear is neat.
Alex Albon with a solid performance in the Red Bull
Round 31 of 71: Verstappen has a deft maneuvers now Sainz is outdated and is back in the points ranking.
Round 29 of 71: On the radio you can hear that Hamilton and his Team complained that he was too early to stop, had to. A mistake, he thinks.
Round 29 of 71: Verstappen is working according to his Defect further to the front. He just moved to Hulkenberg over and is now on rank eleven.
Round 28 of 71: Vettel leads with 18.7 seconds ahead of fourth-placed Hamilton. However, Vettel must still be in the Box, where Hamilton was. Which strategy is better?
Round 26 of 71: 🕓 New fastest lap from Hamilton! The champion of the world is catching up, and brings himself slowly into Position.
Round 25 of 71: Vettel continues the lead, behind him is Bottas and behind Leclerc and Hamilton.
Vettel leads, but his strategy is the right one?
Round 24 of 71: Verstappen makes for spectacle, his Overtaking is once again full of temper. Positively formulated.
Round 23 of 71: is Completely messed-up stop for Antonio Giovinazzi. The Italians at Alfa Romeo wants to leave, because he has the green light, but his rear tire was not mounted at all. Better Williams, who have delivered so far, the best pit times, it makes.
Round 22 of 71: An orange balloon Bouncing across the track. Matching to McLaren. But, nevertheless hardly, to the delight of the driver, because no one wants to have in his field of view if fractional seconds field of vision loss can be fatal.
Round 20 of 71: 🕓 New fastest lap of the race of Charles Leclerc.
Round 18 of 71: Hamilton is currently on rank two and he can the deficit to Vettel peu à peu shorten. World champion idea so far from the British times abgeshen from the heady start-up phase.
Round 17 of 71: The first 7 are on Medium tyres. The first on a hard compound tyre is seven Ricciardo on rank.
Round 16 of 71: Leclerc was in the pits, Vettel is the new Leading – for the time being.
Round 15 of 71: Leclerc is at the top faster than Vettel and Hamilton is faster than Bottas. The direct duel between the team-mates in the Ferrari, and Mercedes is at the moment clearly.
Round 13 of 71: Lando Norris is after an apparently unsuccessful pit-stop pushed back. His mechanics have quasi-manually inserted the reverse gear. This is what went wrong. With a lot of loss of time for the McLaren drivers.
Round 12 of 71: Leclerc leads with 1.8 seconds ahead of team-mate Vettel, the Albon with 0.9 seconds relatively close.
Red leads: Ferrari in the early phase to the tip in Mexico
Round 10 of 71: cheering in the stands: Perez overtakes Kwjat before a curve. The Mexican is now 8.
Round 9 of 71: 🕓 Verstappen-to-date with a good 24 seconds behind on the Penultimate beat off the Last. But he makes up ground with a new fastest lap of the race!
Round 7 of 71: 🕓 Hamilton has now place four pre-works and is the fastest lap of the race hazards.
Round 5 of 71: 💥 tire damage for Verstappen! Bottas touches Verstappen, who wants to overtake. The tire is slashed and Verstappen drags on the rim in the direction of the pit lane.
Round 3 of 71: Leclerc and Vettel are on the places 1 and 2. The Ferrari are well and clearly in front of Albon, Sainz Jr. and Hamilton.
Round 1 of 71: phew, that was equal to two barges from and to Hamilton. Only Vettel to him on the finishing straight for the door, then he was jockeying with Verstappen, he touches on two Times. So, not a prudent way of driving the Almost-world-champion, here are the full throttle, but for the time being, only on rank five.
Close and competitive: The first curve at the Grand Prix of Mexico with plenty of tire contact
Round 1 of 71: Hamilton must be on the Lawn after contact with Verstappen! And the two Ferrari defend their top positions. Fast-paced Start, but so far all of the cars in the race, no failure.
🚥 START 🚥
20:11 PM: Interesting fact: It is the seventh Pole Position for Charles Leclerc. No other driver has had this season more – not even Lewis Hamilton.
20:10 PM: The cars are now on the introduction round.
At 20:07: The Grand Prix of Mexico in Figures: 71 laps of 4,304 km. This means 305,584 km race distance.
At 20:05: just before the Start. Tension in the paddock, emotions in the stands. Mexico city is ready for the spectacle of formula 1.
Festive mood in the stands: The Mexican Fans look forward to the Grand Prix
19:58 PM: the night it rained in Mexico city, now it is dry and 23 degrees warm. The afternoon (local time), however, increases the risk of Rain. The weather could be a factor in this race.
19:55 PM: a bit of A Show, the host needs to be: The national anthem flies over a flight season of the race course, and below follows a helicopter squadron with a huge Mexico flag in tow. And before the drivers ‘ parade caused a Kurzweil.
19:52 PM: “Now it’s time to race to ride and we will see how far I can go from sixth place,” says Bottas before the Start. His gaze goes to the front of the accident from Saturday should be quickly checked.
At 19:50: The starting grid for the Grand Prix of Mexico
1. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)
2. Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari)
3. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)
4. Max Verstappen (Red Bull
5. Alexander Albon (Red Bull)
6. Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes)
7. Carlos Sainz Jr. (McLaren)
8. Lando Norris (McLaren)
9. Daniil Kwjat (Toro Rosso)
10. Pierre Gasly (Toro Rosso)
11. Sergio Perez (Racing Point)
12. Nico Hulkenberg (Renault)
13. Daniel Ricciardo (Renault)
14. Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo)
15. Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo)
16. Lance Stroll (Racing Point)
17. Kevin Magnussen (Haas)
18. Romain Grosjean (Haas)
19. George Russell (Williams)
20. Robert Kubica (Williams)
At 19:42: Sebastian Vettel sits in his car and mounted the steering Wheel. In the “Sky”Interview, he said that he was “not happy” with his Qualifying session. “But today, everything should look good, we have the Pace.”
At 19:40: half an hour until the Start. The Fans are chanting “Vamos Checo” – of course for Sergio Pérez, nickname Checo. He will be starting from eleventh place into the race. Sure to be a very special race for him.
19:05 PM: How has Valtteri Bottas in his Crash digested? The fin was cracked on Saturday, in Qualifying, in a wall. He was “far to the outside, on the dirty line. Then the car erupted,” said the world Cup is the Second and only remaining title rival Lewis Hamilton. His car was damaged “severely”, it was at Mercedes and the mechanic had a lot of work to make it for the race again. According to media reports, the Bolide is fully operational again. Luck in the misfortune: Bottas received no punishment for the accident and will start from Position six in the race.
Boom: On Saturday Bottas ended up in the wall
At 18:53: Williams driver George Russel starts only from the penultimate place in the GP of Mexico. However, his mood before the Start is still perfectly:
At 17:11: Curious you may be on the race from Max Verstappen. The Dutchman lost the Pole Position for the Grand Prix of Mexico on the Green table, because he ignored a Yellow flag. He drives with rage in the belly?
16:59 PM: before you Start bombarding Lewis Hamilton with praise. The British can reach with his sixth formula 1 title historical and a victory at the record-holder Michael Schumacher to move. “We must not forget the power that lies behind it, both from his side as well as from Mercedes,” says Sebastian Vettel. And formula 1 sports boss Ross Brawn added: “He is a great driver that rewrites the history books of the sport.”
16:54 PM: Lewis Hamilton is once again the formula 1 Champion. So much is already before the race in Mexico say. Because in the face of 64-point lead in the drivers ‘ standings, the only question is when Hamilton makes the title clarifies itself. Its competition has only a theoretical chance on the crown of the formula 1. But Hamilton manages the decision as soon as 2017, and in 2018 already in Mexico? The British Mercedes Pilot needs not only a good result, but also something to help protect. Simply put, Hamilton (338 points) must be sufficient lead over his Finnish team – mates and the hardness of running-in most tracker Valtteri Bottas (274 points) – 14 points more very carefully. Specifically, this means the following scenarios:
Hamilton is in Mexico world champion if…
… he wins, the fastest lap of the race is going and Bottas will be a maximum of the Fourth
… he wins, and Bottas is a maximum of the Fifth
… he is assigned to the Second and Bottas to a maximum of eight, without that this turns the fastest lap of the race
… he is the third, the fastest lap of the race rotates and Bottas occupies a maximum of rank nine
… he is assigned to the third and Bottas to a maximum of tenth place, but without turning the fastest lap of the race
Casual appearance, great ambitions: Hamilton wants to be in Mexico the sixth title
16:40 PM: welcome to the DW-live scores from the Grand Prix of Mexico! The Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez is today the site of the 18. Season round of the formula 1.