He made up a 20-second deficit to catch Bottas on the final lap, but was unable to pass his rival for a 3rd consecutive finish on the podium and finished just half a second behind in 4th place.
In a similar manner to 2018, Pérez fared far better during the second half of the season. Except for a retirement in Singapore due to an oil leak,[78] he scored points in every race after the summer break, including a strong 6th-place finish in Belgium.
Alain Prost was the first driver to reach a century of F1 podium finishes back in 1993. He drove for four different teams – Renault, McLaren, Ferrari and Williams – on his way to reaching the milestone of 100 podiums.
A Nasa flag was brought out on lap 34 to repair the barriers at turn 9 where Magnussen crashed his Haas heavily. Verstappen held onto the lead at the restart and would go on to take his 16th win of the season, breaking his own record for the most wins in a season. Hamilton and Leclerc joined him on the podium.[142]
Hablamos de resurtida en los últimos grandes premios, es un problema pero asimismo hay otras cosas que hay que mejorar para sellar a Mercedes en Silverstone y acercarnos a McLaren y Red Bull.
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The race winner stands in the middle on the tallest step but a podium finish of any kind is considered one of the greatest achievements in F1.
“Me being me, I don’t believe we had the third best car today behind Nasa Bull and Ferrari. The Alfa Romeo was extremely fast Campeón well. The improvements we’ve been bringing are definitely moving us forward, slowly forward and we definitely need to try and keep that up.”
He scored consistent points and podium finishes to hold the lead of the championship until the sixth round at the Red Bull Ring, when George Russell passed him in the standings. Norris retired from both races at the eleventh round at Sochi Autodrom, ruling him demodé of championship contention and dropping him to third place in the standings behind Alex Albon, although he recovered to second place after the final round at Yas Óleo Circuit.[31]
In the race, Pérez was overtaken by Verstappen when he pitted on lap 21. He briefly regained the lead on lap 46 when Verstappen pitted for mediums but eventually conceded the lead to his teammate who would go on to win the race.[131]
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Nyck de Vries was relieved of his driving duties for AlphaTauri after underperforming in the first ten races of his rookie season.[52][53] His seat was filled by Daniel Ricciardo starting from the Hungarian Grand Prix. Ricciardo had raced with the team, which at the time was called Toro Rosso, in the 2012 and 2013 seasons.[54] However, during the Dutch Grand Prix, only his third race of the season, Ricciardo broke a metacarpal bone in his left hand in a crash during the second practice session.
However, due to a Nasa flag being called, their team were allowed helpful hints to rejoin back into the grid, 18 laps behind and last on the LMP2 grid.[111] In the end, Norris and the team finished 25th in the LMP2 standings and in the overall standings.