Max Verstappen

Formula One champion Max Verstappen dominated Sunday in a Red Bull rout of Ferrari at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix. Verstappen won from the pole, ...

The race featured a stirring late battle between Mercedes newcomer George Russell and Valtteri Bottas, the driver he replaced. But LeClerc couldn't get the jump on Verstappen at the start and never contended. Charles LeClerc came into Sunday as the championship leader with two wins in the first three races and Carlos

Max Verstappen won from the pole, logged the fastest lap and picked up his second win of the season.

On Sunday, Hamilton was lapped by Verstappen on lap 39.This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Leclerc came off pit road ahead of Pérez, but the Mexican driver had warmer tires and was able to squeeze inside and reclaim second. The race featured a stirring late battle between Mercedes newcomer George Russell and Valtteri Bottas, the driver he replaced. But Leclerc couldn't get the jump on Verstappen at the start and never contended. “The most important thing of today was not making mistakes, because with these conditions it was so tricky out there,” Pérez said. Charles Leclerc came into Sunday as the championship leader with two wins in the first three races and Carlos Sainz Jr. celebrated a two-year contract extension this weekend in Italy.

Ferrari's shining start to 2022 came to a resounding halt in front of its home fans at Imola, Italy, on Sunday as Red Bull executed a perfect race result ...

- Williams 1 "It was quite difficult. At Imola, a clumsy clash with Fernando Alonso sent him spinning on the opening lap. That does not reflect well on Schumacher given the haul of 15 points amassed by Kevin Magnussen, despite Magnussen's late addition to the Haas seat vacated by the ousted Nikita Mazepin. Schumacher has yet to have a clean race this year. So (whether we have) the third, fourth, or fifth-best car, we just executed a great race, the car was good, I had confidence, that’s what we needed.” From where we were four weeks ago, in Bahrain, to being on a podium. It was quite some turnaround for Norris and McLaren, after the horror show of Bahrain, which prompted legitimate fears that the team could spend the year merely striving to battle for points. Leclerc recovered to third but in his pursuit of Perez he clobbered the entry kerb to the Gresini chicane and spun into the barriers. Sainz and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo clashed through the first chicane, sending the Ferrari into the gravel, where it became beached. With the Sprint victory on Saturday, the Grand Prix win and the fastest lap in Sunday's race, Verstappen gobbled up the maximum 34 points on offer. We could look after the tires nicely, just a very positive weekend.” He finished a comfortable 16.5 seconds ahead of runner-up and Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez. Lando Norris completed the podium, 34.8 seconds back.

Verstappen started on pole and led for the entire race as Charles Leclerc spun late while chasing Sergio Perez for second.

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Max Verstappen delivered a dominant victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, as a late crash for Charles Leclerc in Imola saw the Ferrari driver's world ...

"I'm out of the championship, for sure. All that remained was the indignity of being lapped by Verstappen, with whom he shared a fierce title battle last season. With the entire grid starting on intermediate tyres, Leclerc was overtaken by Perez and Norris off the line. "I believe that the spin shouldn't have happened today. "Today, you never know with the weather how competitive you're going to be... Leclerc was able to pass Norris with relative ease to climb to third and momentarily got in front of Perez as Ricciardo triggered the entire field to switch to slicks after coming in on lap 18.

Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc predicted an exciting and unpredictable race in the rain at the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix on Sunday.

“The rain races always have a lot of unpredictability in it. “And obviously it’s going to be very tricky today. Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix

Max Verstappen scored his second win of the season at Imola April 24, 2022 in his Formula 1 championship defense. Lewis Hamilton struggled and wound up ...

The Spaniard and Daniel Ricciardo collided and spun out into the gravel in the second turn of the event. Sebastian Vettel got Aston Martin their first points of the season with his first finish of the year in eighth. As far as the season-long driver standings, Verstappen is still 27 points back from Leclerc while Perez has stepped up to third place. Leclerc was able to continue on to the pits, but instead of finishing third, he wound up sixth. George Russell gained seven spots from his starting position to finish fourth while Valtteri Bottas came up fifth after battling with Russell late in the going. In doing so, he made huge gains on Charles Leclerc and Ferrari less than 60 miles away from the prancing horse’s headquarters in Maranello.

The defending world champion put a difficult weekend in Australia behind him to strike back in the title race.

Had Ferrari not spent nearly four seconds in the pits changing tyres, he might have had a big enough gap to keep Perez behind him. - 17. - 15. - 13. - 2. - 1.