Sebastian Vettel has achieved many
things in his career, but prior to race the Ferrari driver had never won nor
led more than a handful of laps at Hockenheim - a venue only a handful of miles
from where he grew up.
Hamilton, who had never previously
won from outside the top six on the grid, led home team mate Valtteri Bottas to
give the Silver Arrows their first ever one-two on home soil. In doing so
Hamilton also equaled Michael Schumacher’s record of four German GP wins, as
the seven-time world champion’s former team Ferrari had to make do with third
place for Kimi Raikkonen.
Behind Vettel and Bottas are Kimi
Raikkonen, the former’s teammate at Ferrari, and Max Verstappen of Red Bull.
Verstappen’s teammate, Daniel Ricciardo, knew going into qualifying that he was
going to be at the back of the grid due to a power unit replacement on his car.
Kevin
Magnussen and Romain Grosjean of the American-owned Haas F1 team qualified
fifth and sixth, respectively, ahead of both Renault cards. The Sauber of
Charles Leclerc once again made it into the third qualifying session, and will
line up ninth alongside Sergio Perez and his Force India to round out the Top
10. With it an eight-point deficit to Vettel in the championship was converted
into a 17-point advantage, while Ferrari’s misery was completed as Mercedes
reclaimed the lead in the constructors’ race by eight points.
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