00:01It's lights out away we go and unlike yesterday Verstappen gets away well this time as does Sergio
00:07Perez. Leclerc a little slower getting off the line and he's already been passed by Sergio Perez.
00:12Verstappen leads into the first corner ahead of Perez on the inside Lando Norris gets third
00:17place ahead of Charles Leclerc. Bad start from him Daniel Ricciardo hits Carlos Sainz and Ferrari
00:23is spun round and Ricciardo manages to keep going and oh no Carlos Sainz for the second race in
00:29a row second Grand Prix in a row looks like his afternoon has been ending way earlier than he
00:35would have wanted. Sainz going the long way around where's Ricciardo going to be able to go? Well
00:40Ricciardo just moved over to the right there was space and then Ricciardo inches over to the right
00:45that's when the contact happens. Lewis Hamilton getting past Fernando Alonso and you can see
00:53there's a bit of a hole there already and there it goes but it was from damage that must have
00:56been
00:57on the first lap or at the restart but there's Lewis picking the right way around of course
01:01the grips on the outside off the rubber but. How bad is it damage? Quite bad, quite bad. Second DNF
01:08of
01:08the season then for Fernando Alonso. So Lando Norris can he defend against Charles Leclerc? He's done a
01:15very nice job of it so far. Leclerc looks an awful lot closer this time and under braking. Charles Leclerc
01:21goes
01:21for it into the chicane that'll please the Tifosi. You can hear the roars all the way to Maranello 56
01:27miles away. Leclerc is up into the podium places. Russell this time is going to go for it and he's
01:33side by side with Kevin Magnussen and he's ahead of Kevin Magnussen and at the third time of asking he
01:38gets into the chicane ahead but he makes a bit of a mess of it. Can he get back out
01:42in front? We're on board with
01:43the hat who regains that fifth place. Behind them Valtteri Bottas is just lurking and lying in wait.
01:5217 years ago today Fernando Alonso won and that we saw as Russell now into the Fariante Alta makes
01:59the move. Kevin Magnussen might not have been expecting it there but this time around Russell's
02:04made the move and he's made it stick too. And Lando weather update for you. There's possibly
02:10some light class zero to one rain within the next 30 minutes. It might push people to try and extend
02:16this. As across the grass goes Sebastian Vettel and here comes Valtteri Bottas wheel to wheel with
02:23Kevin Magnussen down into Revanza. Tricky braking zone. Bottas I think has managed to get the car stopped
02:28and slowed down enough to snatch sixth place ahead of Kevin Magnussen. Lovely move.
02:36If I was Red Bull I'd call Perez first. And they are. Perez does come in for Red Bull. Max
02:42Verstappen stays
02:43out on the track. Charles Leclerc has carried on and Mercedes are going to make a tyre change too.
02:50So Verstappen into the pits and out again. Leclerc into the pits and out again. Sergio
02:55Perez. He's not had the best of laps here because Charles Leclerc has now got ahead of Sergio
03:00Perez. So whatever was going on in the pits had distracted our attention a bit because out on track
03:05Perez was starting to struggle. But his tyres are now a lot more warmed up than Charles Leclerc's. And
03:11Leclerc moves over to the right-hand side to try and block off Perez. Perez eventually does find a
03:16bit of space to squeeze past and retake that position. This is the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton
03:22pitting. Was this an unsafe release? Five second time penalty for Esteban Ocon.
03:30Here goes Yuki Tsunoda on Kevin Magnussen. And Yuki Tsunoda, nothing wrong with his power unit there
03:36whatsoever, is up into eighth place where of course he finished in Bahrain at the season opener.
03:43Fettel is going to have to fend off Yuki Tsunoda. We did say that Tsunoda has the pace to chase
03:49down that
03:49Aston Martin. Gaps behind them. Well, it's still hard. Charles Leclerc goes into the barrier at the
03:56Variante Alta. Now he's kept the car going. He's kept everything running. One Ferrari already out
04:03and another Ferrari potentially out because I think he's got damage to his front wing.
04:08Crofty, look how much he goes to the right-hand side. Beaches it on this big sausage curb.
04:14Why is he trying to do that? Because he wants to get the DRS down at Rivazza but you can
04:19see the car
04:19would not handle it. Bounced, couldn't correct it and then obviously onto the second part. He's very
04:24lucky that he managed to get that car out the wall but he is going to be one unhappy boy
04:29when he leaves
04:29this track tonight. As out into the race now comes Charles Leclerc, behind Yuki Tsunoda and Sebastian Fettel
04:35and Tsunoda's making the move on Fettel. Tried in the previous lap, didn't get it done, has got it done
04:40now.
04:42If he can't get past Kevin Magnussen, well that's just going to compound his misery for the rest of
04:48this afternoon. He has got much better speed than Magnussen, fresher tyres than Magnussen and does manage
04:55to get past the Haas. So he's now up into eighth and it's Sebastian Fettel further up the road that's
05:00his next target. Sebastian Fettel has been passed already for seventh place. Charles Leclerc is going
05:06to make it another pass for seventh place against Sebastian Fettel and that was an easier move than
05:14Charles Leclerc could have hoped for. Max Verstappen, 14 seconds out in front. Charles Leclerc was thinking
05:23about second place at one stage and has just made the move on Yuki Tsunoda into sixth place after that
05:29late crash at the Valianz Alta. This has been a very comfortable win indeed for the defending world
05:37champion, the reigning world champion. He's coped with the rain here this weekend. Max Verstappen comes
05:44to the line, wins the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix by some distance and it's a distance from his teammate
05:51Sergio Perez as Red Bull come to Ferrari's backyard and make it a one-two. If it was the Reds
05:58against the
05:58Blues here today, the Blues are very much with the Reds and the Blues are triumphant. Very impressive
06:05and Lando Norris on the podium, superb. That will motivate everyone at McLaren. Great drive Max,
06:11well done, awesome weekend. That was a very lovely Sunday. Well done mate, that's maximum points,
06:19maximum points, sprint race, race, fastest lap, well done, great job. The crowd, the 64 000 fans,
06:27packed the banks and the grandstands, hoping to see victory for the Reds. Well, they kind of did,
06:32but it was the Red Bulls who reigned supreme in the rain in Emilia-Romagna.
06:37so
06:38so
06:38so
06:38so
06:40so
06:41you
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