Sunday, November 1, 2020

F1 2020: Emirates Gran Premio Dell'emilia Romagna 2020

The F1 2020 season brought back the legendary Imola for the Gran Premio Dell'emilia Romagna leg of this year's championship and with incidents happened at every turn of the lap, this race becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as a certain record will be broken. What could that be?

Screengrab from Formula 1

The return of Imola in the F1 2020 season is met with numerous incidents from start to finish. In Lap 2, there's Kevin Magnussen spinning and Lance Stroll pitting. In Lap 9, Pierre Gasly retired from the race over mechanical issues. Lap 30 saw Esteban Ocon went out of track and thrown in the towel while Lap 49 saw Kevin Magnussen quitting the race due to headaches. Something's not right with him. As the climax draws near, Max Verstappen is out of the race in Lap 51 as his second place fight ended in tyre troubles. and then two laps later, George Russell hits the barriers. Four laps left, Alex Albon got crashed by Carlos Sainz and drops back to 15th place.

After an incident-packed Imola weekend, Lewis Hamilton wins the Imola GP while Valtteri Bottas finished 2nd and Daniel Ricciardo scored his second podium of the season with the third place finish.

With Hamilton and Bottass making headlines in Imola, Mercedes-Benz finally rewrote the history books as the seven-time constructor's champion in a row. Congratulations, Mercedes-Benz!

The next race at the F1 2020 season will be the DHL Turkish Grand Prix on the 15th of November.

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