Verstappen had to overtake Hamilton at the Safety Car restart but then cruised to a comfortable 10th victory of the season to extend his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:championship advantage to a massive 109 point꧟s with seven races remaining.

Hamilton, meanwhile, was left furious at 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Mercedes for not bringing him in for soft tyres as he saw his chances of victoꦉry fade and slipped off the podium, hღaving been passed by teammate George Russell and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, both of whom did switch tyres.

“I can’t believe you guys f****d me, man,” 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:a♕ livid Hamilton fumed over his team radio. 

The seven-time world champion was left to settle with fourth place, ahead of Red Bull’🍸s Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso, who rose from 13th on the grid to take sixth for Alpine. 

McLaren’s Lando Norris was seventh ahead of Carlos Sainz, who dropped from fifth on the road to🐈 eighth after receiving a five-second time penalty for an unsafe release during his pit stop. 

Esteban Ocon and Lance Stroll completed the rest of the pointsﷺ-paying positions in ninth and 10th for Alpine and Aston Martin respectively. 

Did a win slip away from angry Hamilton? 

It looked as though Hamilton had a slim chance of victory following a Virtual Safety Car that was called after Yuki Tsunoda’s AlphaT👍auri ground to a halt on Lap 48. 

Tsunoda had come into the pits af♕ter briefly stopping a lap before, reporting an issue with his tyr𓆏es. After a bizarre lengthy pit stop, in which his team appeared to be tightening his belts, Tsunoda slowly re-emerged on the track, only to pull over again. 

The VSC enabled Verstappen to make a cheap pit stop for hards and retain his lead over the chasing Hamilton, who also came in as Mercedes double♔-stacked their cars to switch onto mediums.

When the race resumed, Hami🍌lton was just 12.5s behind Verstappen and on fresher compounds. While it would have taken something remarkable for Hamilton to catch and overhaul Verstappen, he appeared dest🦂ined for a minimum P2 finish. 

A full Safety Car was then requir𓂃ed after Valtteri Bottas’ Alfa Romeo broke down on the main straight🦹, which set up the prospect of a thrilling finale. 

Red Bull pitted Verstappen for softs while Mercedes in🔥itially kept both their cars out to favour track position, before Russell made a late call to come in for softs, with Hamilton staying out on mediums. 

That left Hamilton powerless to stop his rivals in circumstances that were similar to the manner in whi🌳ch he lost the 2021 world title in Abu Dhabi last year. 

Verstappen nailed the restart to immed෴iately pass Hamilton into Turn 1, leaving the Briton apoplectic with his team’s strategy.&nbsꦆp;