Lewis Hamilton has every opportunity to celebrate the 100th Formula One victory on Sundays, but world champions seven times cannot accept anything at the Russian Sochi circuit.
The Mercedes Hamilton team has won every race at the Olympic Park Circuit for the first time in 2014, The Briton Triumphant in four of the seven and the current team of Valtteri Bottas in two included last year.
The past performance has not become the biggest indicator of the season, however, with the Red Bull and Championship Leader Max Verstappen, 24 next week, push harder than before in the battle of the intense title.
The Verstappen task was more difficult this time because of the three-place grid penalty worn after he and Hamilton collided and retired at the Italian Grand Prix, with servants who rule Dutch children mostly had to be blamed.
Hamilton hasn’t won since his house British Grand Prix in Silverstone in July but Sochi can take him a 100th victory to the fifth effort.
There are no other teams, even Ferrari, who have won the same race for seven consecutive years, especially eight, but Mercedes is still a favorite.
“Lewis …
is a laser that focuses on what he must convey in the next eight races,” said Teoto Wolff’s team boss ahead of the last black resort race before Russia’s round moves to St.
Petersburg for 2023.
“As for Valtteria,” the driving more Both than before …
there is a determination of the tranquility of the current team and the end of the season business, struggling for the championship, exactly as we enjoy the most.
“While Red Bull has never been in the pole in Sochi, the position that has just been achieved by Mercedes and Ferrari Drivers, Verstappen has started from the top slot in eight of 14 races so far including seven of the last eight.
But none of the seven wins on Year 2021 came from lower than the third in the grid.
The Dutch driver, five net points from Hamilton in the 18th Red Bull standings around Mercedes, were second in Sochi last year.
“We are more competitive this year and we have a package better now so it will be interesting to see how competitive we can be there this year, “said Verstappen.” That of course will be very different from Monza and it seems like there is rain this weekend …
I really look forward to returning There and see what we can do.
“The sentence was certainly not ideal but not ideal but not ideal but nothing was lost, that was What I see has no guidance for the current form, with the two drivers fired by the team’s first win since 2012 and the first-two since 2010.
Ferrari, McLaren’s battle for third place, will also be in the calculation for solid points with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz.