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Rosberg wins as Hamilton recovers to second in Russia

 

 Nico Rosberg dominated Sunday’s 2016 Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix after a Sochi race in which his main rivals struck trouble. Team mate Lewis Hamilton fought his way up from 10th on the grid to secure a Mercedes one-two, as Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen completed the podium.

RACE RESULTS

Pos.	Driver	Team	Time	Points
1	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	1:32:41.997	25
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	+25.022s	18
3	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	+31.998s	15
4	Valtteri Bottas	Williams	+50.217s	12
5	Felipe Massa	Williams	+74.427s	10
6	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	+1 lap	8
7	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	+1 lap	6
8	Romain Grosjean	Haas	+1 lap	4
9	Sergio Perez	Force India	+1 lap	2
10	Jenson Button	McLaren	+1 lap	1

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It was Rosberg’s fourth win of the season and his seventh in succession, and gives him a 43-point lead in the driver standings. Hamilton, meanwhile, believed he had the pace to win, but yet again saw his challenge compromised as falling water pressure obliged him to back off after he had reduced a 12.9s deficit to 7.5s between laps 23 and 36.
Where the world champion at least finished second this time, however, it was another pure disaster for 2016’s other unlucky man, Sebastian Vettel. He was hit from behind by Chinese nemesis Daniil Kvyat in Turn 2 on the opening lap as he pushed the Ferrari inside Daniel Ricciardo’s sister Red Bull.
Then as Vettel appeared to slow slightly with a resulting rear puncture he was again hit from behind by Kvyat and sent spinning hard into the wall in Turn 3. The Russian was given a 10s stop-go penalty and three penalty points, but Vettel was done.
Ferrari’s scant consolation came with Raikkonen’s subdued third - Ferrari’s 700th podium - in a race at which the Scuderia had expected to match Mercedes.
Valtteri Bottas was strong initially despite losing second place on the opening lap to Raikkonen; the Williams driver got that back after a safety car intervention because of Vettel’s accident and a resultant Turn 2 clash further back between Haas’s Esteban Gutierrez, the Force India of Nico Hulkenberg, Marcus Ericsson’s Sauber and Rio Haryanto’s Manor, as racing resumed on the fourth lap.
But soon both Hamilton, who had jumped Massa at the restart, then Raikkonen, deposed the white car, leaving Williams to take fourth and fifth with Bottas leading team mate Felipe Massa home.
Max Verstappen looked set for a strong sixth for Toro Rosso until his Ferrari engine broke on the 34th lap, handing the position to Fernando Alonso who had made a blinding start for McLaren. The Spaniard pushed home to his first points of the season, and it was a double score for the Woking team as Jenson Button likewise opened his 2016 account with 10th place after a big fight with Toro Rosso’s Carlos Sainz, who incurred a 10s time penalty and two penalty points for forcing Renault’s Jolyon Palmer off track earlier in the race.
Between the two McLarens, Kevin Magnussen also made use of a great start to finish seventh and score Renault’s first 2016 points after a great drive, as Romain Grosjean put Haas back in the points after fighting off the recovering Sergio Perez. The Force India driver, after picking up a rear puncture from Ricciardo’s front wing on lap one, had cannily switched from supersoft to soft tyres under the safety car, but had to stop for fresh rubber later on when running sixth.
On a day of disaster for Red Bull, Ricciardo salvaged 12th ahead of Palmer, the feisty Ericsson, a chastened Kvyat, Sauber’s Felipe Nasr (who got a 5s time penalty for failing to rejoin the track correctly at Turn 2), Gutierrez (handed a drive-through penalty for causing his collision with Hulkenberg at the start) and Pascal Wehrlein, whose Manor was delayed by a long late stop for supersoft tyres after the German had shown plenty of fighting spirit.
Rosberg now has a lead of 43 points over Hamilton and joins Alberto Ascari, Michael Schumacher and Vettel as the only men ever to win seven Grands Prix in a row. As Raikkonen rises to third with 36 points, Vettel himself lies fourth on 33, one ahead of Massa.

Daniil Kvyat apologises to Sebastian Vettel for first lap ‘mess’

 

Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat says he accepts responsibility for his double collision with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel on the first lap in Russia - an incident which also led to damage for team mate Daniel Ricciardo.

Kvyat misjudged his braking point heading down into Turn 2, and lightly tagged the rear of Vettel's car - pitching the Ferrari into Ricciardo. All three recovered, but as Vettel headed through Turn 3 Kvyat tapped his rear again, this time diverting the Ferrari into the barriers and out of the race.
The incident came just one race after Vettel and Kvyat's war.

"There was a bit going on [at the start]," Kvyat explained, "and I think in the last moment I didn't expect it to slow so much.
"I tried to press the brakes, the rear wheels locked and the first contact came from that. The second contact he just slowed down a lot, I couldn't see ahead, and I didn't have time to react.
"All the mess came from me… of course it doesn't feel great but these things happen sometimes. It's probably the messiest [start] of my career. I will learn from it - and of course apologies to everyone involved.
"I think we will speak [with Vettel and Ricciardo], that's all we can do. Everyone will attack me, but I'm okay with that."
Vettel was incandescent in the cockpit of his Ferrari immediately after the contact, but was more circumspect in the paddock.
"I got a big hit, I was lucky not to spin and then got another huge hit which turned me around and I couldn't avoid the barriers," he said.
"These things happen - there is nothing I could have done differently. I think there was enough damage to conclude I couldn't continue. If anyone needs to talk to anyone, I think it's him [Kvyat]…"
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner, who discussed the incident with Vettel during the race, added: "Obviously Seb was slightly frustrated. All I could do was apologise, because this week it was unfortunately a mistake from Dany.
"I think he knows what happened. He's misjudged that first corner, and hit Sebastian who hit Daniel. From a team point of view it's screwed our race because we could have scored a lot of points today.
"Emotions run high with all these guys, in his home race I think he just went for too much too soon. Unfortunately I think he has just misjudged it."
Kvyat, who received a 10-second stop and go penalty and three penalty points as punishement for the incident, eventually finished a lap down 15^th place.

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