While on the road, regardless of its territorial location hosted the pilots of “Mercedes”. The first stage in the season – Grand Prix of Austria was won by the Finn Valtteri Bottas. Six-time world champion Briton Lewis Hamilton there on the “Red bull Ring”, won the Grand Prix of Styria, and then the updated record at the autodrome “Hungaroring”, winning the Hungarian Grand Prix for the eighth time. Hamilton also repeated the achievement of Michael Schumacher, who won eight times in France.
In pursuit of the “Mercedes” actively involved, the Dutchman Max Verstappen of the “Red bull”. In his debut race, he unfortunately went off the road, but then drove to two prizes – the second and third, respectively. In the individual standings leader Hamilton (63), five points inferior to him teammate Valtteri Bottas. Verstappen is behind by 30 points.
But the head of Mercedes Toto Wolff sure that Max is a real danger.
– I never feel comfortable when the season starts – quoted wolf’s Auto Motor und Sport. Behind only three races. If we lose one of the next stages, while Verstappen wins the odds in the championship will in fact be equal.
as for the Russian pilot “alpha Tauri” Daniil Kvyat, he was able to get into the points zone only at the Grand Prix of Styria, finishing tenth. In Hungary he was the 12th and is going to push for gas in the UK.
– still a little difficult to identify the strengths and weaknesses of our car. We are still working, I engineers, on finding the basic settings from which you can start working on each race, – quotes the words Kvyat press-service “alpha Tauri”. – Overall I was happy with race pace but in qualifying in Budapest, I was not so happy with the car. But we think we know, what was the matter, and planned to try something else in the “Silverstone” and see if we will add. I’m pleased with how it was Sunday, but if we can start with about tenth place, it will make life much easier and allow us to hold a strong race. Let’s see if we can squeeze more out of one round.
the organizers of the “Formula 1” decided against holding this season, the Grand Prix of the United States, Brazil and Mexico because of the situation with coronavirus in those countries. Thus, the approved calendar will consist of 13 stages. Already held two races in the Austrian Spielberg (5 and 12 July) and one in Budapest (July 19). Also scheduled to race at the British Silverstone (2 and 9 August), the Spanish “Barcelona” (August 16), the Belgian Spa (30 August), Italian Monza (6 September) and Tuscany (September 13), Sochi (27 September), the German Nuremberg (October 11), Portuguese Portimao (25 October) and the Italian Imola (November 1).
