2020 F1 Russian Grand Prix race results

From pole position, Hamilton led the charge from pole position – starting on the soft tyre as opposed to rivals Bottas and Max Verstappen (Red Bull) on the mediums. But his race winning hopes were truly dashed by race control, which revealed two 5-second penalties for practice start violations.

Mercedes decided to pit Hamilton early, putting him on the hard tyres for the rest of the race. Bottas was released out front and pulled well clear of the opposition, which was led by Verstappen.

Hamilton recovered to finish third, complaining multiple times about the penalties and that the team stopped him too early, ahead of Racing Point’s Sergio Perez.

Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo got a 5s time penalty for not going through the Turn 2 bollards after overshooting while he passed teammate Esteban Ocon, but he pulled out enough of a gap over Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc to make that irrelevant to claim fifth.

AlphaTauri’s Daniil Kvyat started the race on hard tyres, and ran as high as third before stopping. He charged back to eighth on fresh rubber, but couldn’t find a way past Ocon, with teammate Pierre Gasly also making a late stop and passing Alex Albon (who scored the final point) and Lando Norris to take ninth.

Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen ran in the points for a while on the day he equalled Rubens Barichello’s record of F1 starts, but finished 14th after a slow pitstop.

Carlos Sainz and Lance Stroll went out of the race on the opening lap after crashes.

F1 Russian Grand Prix race results

Cla		Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Pits	Points
1		Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	53	1:34'00.364	1	26
2		Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	53	1:34'08.093	1	18
3		Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	53	1:34'23.093	1	15
4		Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	53	1:34'30.922	1	12
5		Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	53	1:34'52.429	1	10
6		Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	53	1:35'02.550	1	8
7		Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	53	1:35'08.370	1	6
8		Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	53	1:35'09.104	1	4
9		Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	53	1:35'30.130	2	2
10		Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	53	1:35'38.224	2	1
11		Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	52	1 lap	1
12		Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	52	1 lap	1
13		Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	52	1 lap	1
14		Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	52	1 lap	1
15		Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	52	1 lap	2
16		Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	52	1 lap	1
17		Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	52	1 lap	2
18		George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	52	1 lap	3
	dnf	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	0
	dnf	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	0
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F1 Russian Grand Prix fastest laps

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	51	1'37.030			216.972
2	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	50	1'37.231	0.201	0.201	216.523
3	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	53	1'37.332	0.302	0.101	216.298
4	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	52	1'37.352	0.322	0.020	216.254
5	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	50	1'37.377	0.347	0.025	216.198
6	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	53	1'37.886	0.856	0.509	215.074
7	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	48	1'38.075	1.045	0.189	214.660
8	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	52	1'38.141	1.111	0.066	214.515
9	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	51	1'38.377	1.347	0.236	214.001
10	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	37	1'38.858	1.828	0.481	212.960
11	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	47	1'39.053	2.023	0.195	212.540
12	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	48	1'39.133	2.103	0.080	212.369
13	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	48	1'39.216	2.186	0.083	212.191
14	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	46	1'39.588	2.558	0.372	211.398
15	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	44	1'39.614	2.584	0.026	211.343
16	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	44	1'39.766	2.736	0.152	211.021
17	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	52	1'40.380	3.350	0.614	209.731
18	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	47	1'41.044	4.014	0.664	208.352
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F1 Russian Grand Prix tyre strategy

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	1		2		3		4
1	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	M	29	H	27
2	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	M	28	H	28
3	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	S	19	H	37
4	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	S	23	H	33
5	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	S	18	H	38
6	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	M	28	H	25
7	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	S	21	H	35
8	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	H	30	M	23
9	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	S	21	H	24	M	11
10	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	S	5	H	26	M	26
11	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	M	16	H	36
12	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	M	19	H	33
13	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	M	30	H	22
14	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	H	35	M	17
15	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	S	4	H	46	M	5
16	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	M	17	H	35
17	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	M	17	H	25	M	10
18	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	M	1	H	13	M	38	S	2
	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	S	3
	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	M	0
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F1 Russian Grand Prix as it happened