Max Verstappen that started on Pole won the FORMULA 1
BRAZILIAN GRAND PRIX 2019 with Pierre Gasly of Toro Rosso Honda coming in 2nd
for his first Formula 1 Podium. Lewis
Hamilton for Mercedes-AMG took the Podium at
the end of the race for 3rd place. Hamilton
later got hit with a 5 second penalty that knocked him down to 7th place with
Carlos Sainz Jr. for McLaren then moving up to 3rd. The two Ferraris kissed each other late in
the race that knocked both cars out.
Late in the race as Hamilton was coming up on Red Bulls
Alexander Albon and darted forward behind Albon benefit fitting from an open DRS
as the were headed to a turn Hamilton took the inside position and the Mercedes
and the Red Bull touched with Albon getting the worse of the incident. On reply some people thought it was just a
racing incident (no penalty), some thought Hamilton should have backed off and
some thought that Hamilton was far enough along that Albon should have been
able to see that Hamilton had inside position for the turn and that Albon
should have taking a different line for the turn. After review by the racing officials they
determined that Hamilton was at
fault and hitting him with a 5 second penalty.
That incident was strange but not as strange as the 2 Ferraris touching
each other late in the race causing enough damage to both cars that neither
could continue the race. They replay of
the incident clearly shows that Charles Leclerc had given Sebastian Vettel
enough room and as Vettel was overtaking Leclerc that Vettel angled his car
into Leclerc. Of course all teams want
their drivers to drive aggressively but not so aggressively that when they are
taking the fight to their teammate that either driver creates and incident that
can knock both cars out of the race. Obviously,
this incident has created more drama in the Ferrari camp.
The Brazilian Grand Prix 2019 was a very exciting race.
