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Featuring The Race’s Edd Straw. Max Verstappen dominates in Imola, but Lewis Hamilton fights back from ninth to second to keep himself at the top of the title table. What made the difference between these two title-contending cars?
Host & editor, Strategy Report, Michael Lamonato joined Sports Breakfast to chat a big week of F1.
Max Verstappen dominates Imola, Italy dominates the national anthem world championship and George Russell dominates the paint.
Max Verstappen survived deluge and debris to claim his first win of the season in his championship battle with Lewis Hamilton.
Max Verstappen won a manic wet race in Imola in which pole winner Lewis Hamilton recovered from a lap down to finish on the podium, while Valtteri Bottas and George Russell emerged unscathed from a high-speed crash at Tamburello.
The Dutchman was close to flawless in depriving Hamilton of the lead on the first lap and controlling the race thereafter, dominating the field to claim a comfortable 22-second victory.
Hamilton, on the other hand, lost touch with the lead through a rare clumsy mistake in the damp on slick tires, running through the gravel and plummeting down the order, but a trademark charge through the field in the second half of the race brought the Briton back up to a commendable second place.
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