In the main race of the 2022 F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, two Red Bulls led the way to the first and second places from the start, Le Buckle's 54th lap error gave way to Norris, and Russell held the fourth position in the last minute and did not let Bottas complete the overtaking. Happy Buckle finished the 6th round. Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu finished in 15th place. It is worth mentioning that verstappen completed the snare of Hamilton in the game, which is very emotional...
Due to the rain, the Imola track was still wet before the start of the race, and all the drivers started with half-rain tires, and the race was exciting! Zhou Guanyu started from the maintenance area due to an accident in the sprint race, but such a wet track is not necessarily a bad thing.
With five red lights out and ferrari fainting together, Perez finished overtaking Leclerc at turn one! The most depressing thing is that Sainz Ii and Ricciardo both slid off the track together to trigger the yellow flag! Sainz is out! The two races ran a total of 2 laps... This new contract signed...
Mick was also affected by the slippage, his rear wheel scraped to Alonso's side box, Alonso helplessly returned to the p room to accept the withdrawal, directly opened half of the side box and flew away...
Ricciardo fell straight to the bottom of the team, but McLaren's Norris was third in front of Leclerc. The safety car was taken to the fifth lap. Leclerc attacked Norris on the eighth lap and completed the overtaking before Turn One. Ferrari's performance this year is really a huge advantage.
As the track got drier, midstream teams also began to compete for positions, especially between Haas and Alfa Romeo, in addition to Bottas surpassing Magnussen, Zhou Guanyu also completed the overtaking of Mick Schumacher to the 16th position!
On lap 17, Ricciardo at the back of the team took the lead in switching to the yellow tire to run at an astonishing speed, and then the major teams changed the tires. Cause chaos in the maintenance area. O'Conn nearly collided with Hamilton. Fined 5 seconds for unsafe release.
And Alfa Romeo's tire changer is off the line again. Gave Bothas a full 11.8 seconds to change the tire. But still didn't break Ferrari's 13.1-second classic moment...
On lap 27, Mick rushed out of the track to skate, and Zhou Guanyu seized the opportunity to complete the overtaking.
Halfway through the game, Ricciardo once again entered the station to change into a white tire, and it seems that today's Imola will not rain. So on lap 34, the event officer finally allowed the use of DRS. After 37 laps, Hamilton has not yet made it into the points zone. Interestingly, when the pre-match host asked Hamilton what the goal of the race was, Hamilton replied: "Win the game." Then he laughed.
But the current Hamilton, even surpassing a Little Red Bull is difficult, which is a big blow to the 7 champions. And the bigger blow was undoubtedly that Verstappen, who was preparing the snare, had come to his back. 41 laps, this scene really appeared. Hamilton was shown a blue flag to make way for the snare Verstappen on the straights.
The camera immediately gave to the leaders of the two convoys, half a year ago the two were still killing each other in the first place, and now the times have changed! I can only say that the director of FOM really understands it!
After that, Zhou Guanyu completed the overtaking of Latifi, and he was hamilton in front of him, but the gap was as much as 15 seconds, and it looked like the game was over. Ferrari recalled Leclerc to the pit stop at 50 laps, and the 2.4-second tire change was no problem, but when he went out, he was blocked by Norris, but he completed the overtaking in less than one lap. Red Bull saw also two wheels flowing into the station. The final lap of the race moved into a second-place battle between Leclerc and Perez.
However, Leclerc made a mistake on lap 54! He slid off the track! Hurt the nose wing! The pit lane comes out and falls straight to the 9th!
At 60 laps, Bottas was less than a second behind Russell in front of him. However, Russell defended Thele of Meben, finishing the 4th race, Bottas representing Arrow in 5th place and Le Dunk for 6th place. The first and second were won by the Red Bull duo, and Norris also took the podium. Verstappen scored 34 points in this race alone, congratulations max!