Results of the F1 race at Imola and summary

Max Verstappen dominated a wet and dry race from pole position to lead the Red Bull double ahead of teammate Sergio Perez.

The disastrous race for home darae Ferrari began when Ricciardo touched the McLaren and left Carlos Sainz at the first corner, and worsened when Charles Leclerc spun and crashed into the barriers while trying to put pressure on Pérez. He was forced to pit for a nose and front wing change, dropping to ninth, but recovered to finish sixth.

Results of the Imola F1 race, from the Emilia Romagna GP 2022

Cla	Pilot		laps	Weather	Difference	Interval	Points
1	Max Verstappen		63	1:32’07.986			26
two	Sergio Perez		63	1:32’24.513	16,527	16,527	18
3	Lando Norris		63	1:32’42.820	34.834	18.307	15
4	George Russell		63	1:32’50.492	42.506	7.672	12
5	Valtteri Bottas		63	1:32’51.167	43.181	0.675	10
6	Charles Leclerc		63	1:33’04.058	56.072	12.891	8
7	Yuki Tsunoda		63 63	1: 33’09.096	1’01.110	5.038	6
8	Sebastian Vettel		63	1:33’18.878	1’10.892	9.782	4
9	Kevin Magnussen		63	1:33’23.246	1’15.260	4.368	2
10	Lance Stroll		62	1 lap			1
11	Alexander Albon		62	1 lap
12	Pierre Gasly		62	1 lap
13	Lewis Hamilton		62	1 lap
14	Esteban Ocon		62	1 lap
15	Guanyu Zhou		62	1 lap
16	Nicholas Latifi		62	1 lap
17	Mick Schumacher		62	1 lap
18	Daniel Ricciardo		62	1 lap
	Fernando Alonso		6
	Carlos Sainz Jr.		0
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How the 2022 F1 Emilia Romagna GP race unfolded

In wet conditions that forced everyone out on intermediate tyres, Verstappen maintained his lead from pole en route to Turn 1 as team-mate Perez and Lando Norris (McLaren) overtook Leclerc for second and third.

Behind them, Daniel Ricciardo tangled with Carlos Sainz Jr. at Tamburello , leaving Sainz stranded in the gravel as he did in the previous race, in Melbourne. Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo) also overtook Ricciardo and dropped to seventh when the Australian pitted and rejoined last.

Charles Leclerc, Ferrari F1-75, passes near the crashed car of Carlos Sainz Jr., Ferrari F1-75

When the Safety Car left, Verstappen was leading ahead of Pérez, Norris, Leclerc , Kevin Magnussen ( Haas ) and George Russell, whose Mercedes made the most of a great start and the chaos in front of him to move up to sixth place.

Leclerc passed Norris for third on lap 8 at Tamburello , while Magnussen and Russell dueled for fifth, with another battle at Tamburello on lap 12 before Russell held on to the Variant Alta lead. Bottas passed Magnussen at Rivazza two laps later.

The track was drying up, and Ricciardo was the first to stop for slicks on lap 17, and Pérez did the same two laps later from second position. Verstappen and Leclerc came on a lap later, with Leclerc starting just ahead of Pérez, but the Mexican regained his place at the Villeneuve chicane on already hot tyres.

Verstappen had a 10-second lead midway through the race, when Pérez suffered an excursion through the grass in the Variant Alta on lap 29. The use of DRS was allowed from lap 34 and Yuki Tsunoda ( AlphaTauri ) used it to pass Magnussen on lap 48 and to Sebastian Vettel ( Aston Martin ) on lap 54.

Leclerc pitted with 13 laps to go to put on soft tires looking for the fastest lap, dropping to fourth behind Norris before passing him on DRS a lap later, while Perez stopped for cover a lap later and Verstappen did the same. own to defend the extra point of the fastest lap.

Leclerc attacked Perez in the last 10 laps but hit the wall in Variante Alta after hitting the curb too hard. He was able to rejoin, but had to pit to fit a new front wing, which left him in ninth place.

Verstappen beat Perez by 16 seconds for his second win of the season, and Norris finished third ahead of Russell and Bottas . Leclerc passed Magnussen, Vettel and Tsunoda in the closing laps to minimize damage and take sixth. Tsunoda, Vettel, Magnussen and Lance Stroll (also with Aston Martin) rounded out the top 10.

Fernando Alonso’s Alpine was forced to abandon in the first few laps when its right pontoon blew while the Mercedes of a Lewis Hamilton passed him, who, without penalty or glory, was left out of the points. The bodywork of Alonso’s car had been damaged when Mick Schumacher hit him while he was spinning his Haas on the first lap trying to avoid Sainz and Ricciardo’s crash.

Fast laps of the Imola F1 race, from the Emilia Romagna GP 2022

Cla	Pilot		Weather	Difference	Interval	Km/h
1	Max Verstappen		1’18.446			225.281
2	Charles Leclerc		1’18.574	0.128	0.128	224.914
3	Sergio Perez		1’18,949	0.503	0.375	223,845
4	Mick Schumacher		1’18.999	0.553	0.050	223.704
Five	Yuki Tsunoda		1’20.544	2.098	1.545	219.412
6	Valtteri Bottas		1’20.758	2.312	0.214	218.831
7	Lando Norris		1’20.903	2.457	0.145	218.439
8	George Russell		1’20.962	2.516	0.059	218.280
9	Sebastian Vettel		1’21.211	2.765	0.249	217.610
10	Kevin Magnussen		1’21.238	2.792	0.027	217.538
11	Guanyu Zhou		1’21.286	2.840	0.048	217.410
12	Nicholas Latifi		1’21.338	2.892	0.052	217.271
13	Lewis Hamilton		1’21.419	2.973	0.081	217.054
14	Daniel Ricciardo		1’21.577	3.131	0.158	216.634
15	Pierre Gasly		1’21,713	3,267	0.136	216,274
16	Lance Stroll		1’21.750	3.304	0.037	216.176
17	Alexander Albon		1’21.757	3.311	0.007	216.157
18	Esteban Ocon		1’21.887	3.441	0.130	215.814
19	Fernando Alonso		1’39.685	21.239	17.798	177.282
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Imola F1 race tire history from Emilia Romagna GP 2022

I = Intermediates

M = Media

S = Soft

Cla	Pilot		1		two		3		4
1	Max Verstappen		I	19	M	32	S	12
two	Sergio Perez		Yo	18	M	32	yes	13
3	Lando Norris		I	19	M	44
4	George Russell		I	18	M	45
5	Valtteri Bottas		I	18	M	45
6	Charles Leclerc		I	19	M	30	S	4	S	10
7	Yuki Tsunoda		I	18 18	M	45 45
8	Sebastian Vettel		I	17	M	48
9	Kevin Magnussen		I	18	M	47
10	Lance Stroll		I	18	M	46
11	Alexander Albon		I	17	M	45
12	Pierre Gasly		I	17	M	45
13	Lewis Hamilton		I	18	M	44
14	Esteban Ocon		I	18	M	44
15	Guanyu Zhou		I	18	M	44
16	Nicholas Latifi		I	18	M	44
17	Mick Schumacher		I	18	M	36	S	10
18	Daniel Ricciardo		I	2	I	16	M	14	H	32
	Fernando Alonso		I	6
	Carlos Sainz Jr.		Yo	0
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