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Carlos Sainz (left) and Kevin Magnussen get out of their racing cars unharmed
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Mugello - once and never again:
Accident chaos, crazy race, only twelve cars at the finish - the Tuscan Grand Prix was a lot, but certainly not boring.
This is important for Formula 1, which has had to live with the dominance of Mercedes and monotonous races for years.
Even so, this Grand Prix was not an advertisement for the sport.
The track in Mugello - added to the calendar as a special gesture for Ferrari - is too narrow, offers too few run-off zones and is therefore too dangerous for Formula 1. Thanks to the good safety concepts in Formula 1, none of the three sensational accidents were injured Driver.
The race result:
Lewis Hamilton won the ninth race of the season ahead of Valtteri Bottas and Alex Albon.
Read the race report here.
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Before the first Formula 1 race in the history of the track, experts warned about the wide cars and the limited space in front of the first corner.
In fact, it only took a few seconds for Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly to land in the gravel.
At the first restart, Bottas, the leader at the time, slowed down the pace so much that the drivers in midfield again lacked space.
This time four drivers were affected: Carlos Sainz, Antonio Giovinazzi, Kevin Magnussen and Nicholas Latifi.
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Restart on the seventh lap, four cars are involved in the following accident
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The world champion back on track:
Hamilton was lucky enough to be able to stay out of these dicey situations at the top.
It was the 42nd race in a row that the World Cup favorite had crossed the finish line.
With this, the Briton grabbed the next Formula 1 record, so far Nick Heidfeld held the record with 41 finishings in a row between 2007 and 2009.
After Hamilton had only finished seventh in Monza a week ago, he celebrated his sixth win of the season in Mugello.
In this form, it is only a matter of time before he will secure his seventh world title.
Red Bull needs a system update:
It was only three weeks ago that Red Bull's motorsport advisor Helmut Marko said, "Max Verstappen can still become world champion".
Even at the time of the statement, it sounded like the famous whistling in the forest.
Now, Verstappen has not seen the checkered flag twice in a row, in Mugello it was already evident before the start.
There was hectic activity around the car, Red Bull published "software problems".
This then caused a dramatic loss of performance, Verstappen was passed into midfield after the start, before he was pushed off the track by Monza winner Gasly.
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Bernd Mayländer led the field in the red safety car
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All your cars are red, red, red:
Mugello was chosen as the location because many racetracks cannot be driven due to the corona pandemic - and because Ferrari was about to celebrate the 1000th Formula 1 race.
If you leave out the sporty, it actually turned out to be a red weekend.
Ferrari entered with a darker livery, as a reminder of the early Formula 1 times.
Mick Schumacher was allowed to do a few laps in his father Michael's 2004 Ferrari before the race.
And after the accidents, the field was led by a red safety car.
This is how Mercedes honored its great rival.
Tire damage at 270 kilometers per hour:
Sebastian Vettel will drive for Racing Point successor Aston Martin in the coming season.
His teammate will then be called Lance Stroll.
The Canadian, decried as a crash kid in his early days in Formula 1, has already scored 57 championship points.
At Mugello a few would have been added if he hadn't landed in a pile of tires on lap 44.
The reason was a puncture.
When Stroll got out, his car caught fire.
The second interruption followed.
And Ferrari?
It was the tough race expected for Scuderia.
Charles Leclerc started the race from fifth, was now third - and was then passed within a few laps.
Vettel usually fought for a championship point shortly before the end of the field and got it in the end.
More is currently not possible for the crisis-ridden racing team - not even in the home race.
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