02
Maggio
2016
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02:00
Europe/Amsterdam

Silver Arrows seal Sochi one-two in high tension Russian Grand Prix

  • Nico took his 18th career victory today – his first at the Sochi Autodrom and fourth of the 2016 season

  • Lewis completed a second Silver Arrows 1-2 finish of the 2016 season in P2 with a battling performance from P10 on the grid

  • Nico set the fastest lap of the race – beating the previous best of 1:40.071 (VET, 2015) by just under a second (0.977s)

  • Lewis produced a superbly controlled drive to manage a water pressure problem in the closing stages of the race and retain second position from Räikkönen

  • Nico (100) leads the Drivers' Championship by 43 points from Lewis (57) in P2

  • MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS (157) lead Ferrari (76) by 81 points in the Constructors' Championship

Driver

Chassis No.

Grid

Result

Fastest Lap

Nico Rosberg

F1 W07 Hybrid/03

P01

P01

1:39.094 (Lap 52)

Lewis Hamilton

F1 W07 Hybrid/01

P10

P02

1:40.266 (Lap 36)

Strategy

Start

Stop 1

No. 6

SuperSoft

Soft (Lap 21)

No. 44

SuperSoft

Soft (Lap 17)

Weather

Clear, dry, cool

Temperatures

Air: 16.0 – 17.6°C

Track: 33.8 – 42.4°C

 

Nico Rosberg

This weekend really went really perfectly for me. Already in Qualifying I had found a perfect balance and that continued throughout the race, which was fantastic. I had a great start and from there was able to control the pace at the front. Thank you so much to everybody at the factories for building such an amazing car. If you have a car like this, you are really able to push to the limits and that's an awesome feeling. Lewis drove really well to come back up to second so quickly, so well done to him too. The only down side to the weekend was to see that reliability is becoming a bit of a concern, as Lewis obviously has a problem yesterday and both cars had issues during the race today. But we have a great team behind us and I'm fully confident that we will sort this out. It´s unbelievable to go into the European races with four wins and I really look forward to Barcelona now. Thanks, Russia – you were very good to me!

Lewis Hamilton

Firstly, I would like to thank the guys who came together to get the new parts over here from the factory last night – and then to the mechanics who worked all through the night to get everything prepared for me to go out there and race today. The guys on my side of the garage are having a really hard time of it at the moment – but I have every faith and confidence in them. We've swapped things round in the garage a bit this season but that is absolutely not the reason we've been having issues. It hasn't been the case for the past three years and I have no reason to believe it would be now. Without their hard work I wouldn't even have got to this point, so a big thank you to them once again. The first corner was pretty hectic. I don't know what happened – but I saw something happening in the corner of my eye and just thought "I'm not getting caught again!" I managed to get out of the way and avoid it – but if I'd turned in I would have collected them. It was pure instinct and I'm glad I was able to come out without any contact this time. From there I had good pace and I felt like I could challenge for the win – but then there was the water pressure problem which ended that chance. It was tough to hang on at the end but I handled it as best I could. I had to really nurse the car home and I'm just relieved to have made it to the flag after how this weekend has been. I've got a long way to go yet this season with not many healthy engine parts left, so we need to do a better job on reliability.

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