Pos Driver Car Gap 1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1h30m44.200s 2 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull/Renault 6.996s 3 Max Verstappen Red Bull/Renault 13.413s 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 15.845s 5 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 32.570s 6 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 37.023s 7 Nico Hulkenberg Force India/Mercedes 1m10.049s 8 Jenson Button McLaren/Honda 1 Lap 9 Valtteri Bottas Williams/Mercedes 1 Lap 10 Sergio Perez Force India/Mercedes 1 Lap 11 Esteban Gutierrez Haas/Ferrari 1 Lap 12 Fernando Alonso McLaren/Honda 1 Lap 13 Romain Grosjean Haas/Ferrari 1 Lap 14 Carlos Sainz Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1 Lap 15 Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso/Ferrari 1 Lap 16 Kevin Magnussen Renault 1 Lap 17 Pascal Wehrlein Manor/Mercedes 2 Laps 18 Marcus Ericsson Sauber/Ferrari 2 Laps 19 Jolyon Palmer Renault 2 Laps 20 Rio Haryanto Manor/Mercedes 2 Laps - Felipe Nasr Sauber/Ferrari Retirement - Felipe Massa Williams/Mercedes Retirement DRIVERS' STANDINGS
Pos Driver Points 1 Lewis Hamilton 217 2 Nico Rosberg 198 3 Daniel Ricciardo 133 4 Kimi Raikkonen 122 5 Sebastian Vettel 120 6 Max Verstappen 115 7 Valtteri Bottas 58 8 Sergio Perez 48 9 Felipe Massa 38 10 Nico Hulkenberg 33 11 Carlos Sainz 30 12 Romain Grosjean 28 13 Fernando Alonso 24 14 Daniil Kvyat 23 15 Jenson Button 17 16 Kevin Magnussen 6 17 Pascal Wehrlein 1 18 Stoffel Vandoorne 1 19 Esteban Gutierrez 0 20 Jolyon Palmer 0 21 Marcus Ericsson 0 22 Felipe Nasr 0 23 Rio Haryanto 0 CONSTRUCTORS' STANDINGS
Pos Constructor Points 1 Mercedes 415 2 Red Bull/Renault 256 3 Ferrari 242 4 Williams/Mercedes 96 5 Force India/Mercedes 81 6 Toro Rosso/Ferrari 45 7 McLaren/Honda 42 8 Haas/Ferrari 28 9 Renault 6 10 Manor/Mercedes 1 11 Sauber/Ferrari 0 Don't like what I see here..............
Lewis Hamilton extended his championship lead before Formula 1's summer break with a commanding victory in the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim.
The reigning world champion benefited from polesitter and Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg's poor start to take the lead into Turn 1 and controlled the race from there.
It was Hamilton's sixth win in seven races, putting him 19 points clear of Rosberg with nine grands prix remaining.
Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo clinched second, 6.9 seconds behind, with team-mate Max Verstappen completing the podium in third.
Rosberg bogged down at the start, dropping to fourth as Verstappen went round the outside of Ricciardo through Turn 1 to take second behind clear leader Hamilton.
At the first round of stops, Mercedes and Red Bull split strategies, with Rosberg and Verstappen taking the super-softs and Hamilton and Ricciardo the softs - though all the leaders ultimately ended up on three-stop plans.
Verstappen struggled with that rubber, allowing Rosberg to close the gap and then pit early to try the undercut.
Red Bull responded by bringing the Dutchman in early too and he rejoined ahead but Rosberg got in the slipstream on the run down to the hairpin.
Rosberg dived down the inside, with Verstappen moving in the braking zone before then giving him some room.
Rosberg ran deep into the corner, pushing Verstappen wide and then off track. Following an investigation, the Mercedes driver was handed a five-second time penalty to take at his final pitstop.
Hamilton and Ricciardo ran longer before their second stops, and went to super-softs whereas Verstappen and Rosberg had gone for softs.
That helped Ricciardo to close on and pass Verstappen, and when he took more super-softs at the last stops while Hamilton reverted to softs he mounted a charge towards the lead.
Hamilton had enough in hand, though, raising his pace when required to stay clear of Ricciardo and win again.
Rosberg appeared to be held for longer than five seconds for his penalty at his final stop and rejoined fourth, losing all hope of rescuing a podium.
Ferrari was largely anonymous with Sebastian Vettel fifth, 32.5s adrift at the chequered flag and team-mate Kimi Raikkonen 4.4s further back after they swapped positions at the start.
It meant Ferrari dropped behind Red Bull, which scored its first double podium since Hungary 2015, to third in the constructors' championship, 14 points adrift.
Nico Hulkenberg was seventh ahead of Jenson Button with Valtteri Bottas ending up ninth after a falling behind both during a long final stint on the soft tyre.
Sergio Perez snatched 10th from Fernando Alonso with three laps to go, and got within 1.5s of Bottas at the flag.
Felipe Massa and Felipe Nasr were the only two retirements, with the Williams driver struggling after being hit by Jolyon Palmer at Turn 6 on the first lap, then pulling into the garage mid-race.
Kimi Raikkonen said that finishing sixth in the German Grand Prix was a "painful" result for Ferrari as it slipped behind Red Bull in the constructors' standings.
Both Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel fell away from the Mercedes and Red Bulls in the race as Ferrari finished a distant fifth and sixth at Hockenheim, a result which drops the Italian team 14 points behind Red Bull. The 2007 world champion feels Ferrari was simply not fast enough to compete with Red Bull in Germany.
"Everybody can see where we finished," Raikkonen said. "It's obviously a bit painful for all of us but this is where we are right now. We just have to work harder. Of course we want to win, so we have to beat everybody and that's always the aim in racing.
"We were just not fast enough -- it was as simple as that, unfortunately. It wasn't too bad when we had fresh tyres, but they wore off quite quickly and that's about it.
"We were ahead of Red Bull but now they're ahead of us, but I'm sure we found some tools and hopefully we can challenge both of them later on, but it's not going to be easy. But that's always the aim."
The result comes a week after Raikkonen and Vettel struggled to get past Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo at the Hungarian Grand Prix, as Red Bull beat Ferrari to the podium.
When asked whether the feeling is any different compared to last weekend after recording back-to-back sixth place finishes, Raikkonen said the team cannot be satisfied either way.
"The end result was the same and it doesn't matter how you get it. They were not good results, not what we wanted but, like you said, they were two completely different stories that ended up with the same position.
"We cannot be happy either way, because this is not where we want to be, these are not the positions we want to be fighting for. It was quite a boring race, in a way, not much happening where I was, so if we can be fast that will obviously make it more exciting."
Quote: jpp47 wrote in post #9Good to see Kimi ahead of Seb......!😃
It's definitely good to see Kimi's performances this season compared to last.. But it's not so great to see the Ferrari about 3/4 of a second off of the Pole in such a 'short' lap.
I think it was pretty obvious Allison was going to leave the team ever since the tragedy with his wife. Something isn't right within the team, and it has nothing to do with the drivers. It's just a damn shame that the car isn't competitive enough to even be 2nd best on the grid anymore..
Quote: jpp47 wrote in post #9Good to see Kimi ahead of Seb......!😃
It's definitely good to see Kimi's performances this season compared to last.. But it's not so great to see the Ferrari about 3/4 of a second off of the Pole in such a 'short' lap.
I think it was pretty obvious Allison was going to leave the team ever since the tragedy with his wife. Something isn't right within the team, and it has nothing to do with the drivers. It's just a damn shame that the car isn't competitive enough to even be 2nd best on the grid anymore..
Yes, so frustrating...
I totally agree with you nothing to do with drivers but on the contrary with the car just not good enough to compete Red Bull and of course not the Merc. Lack of power and speed
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