Bottas wins Vettel after overtaking him at start
Vettel 2nd, Raikkonen 3rd, Hamilton 4th
Alonso breaks down on parade lap
Alonso, Palmer, Grosjean, Ricciardo out
Ferrari fans have had to be a patient bunch. It's been nine, long years since they last locked out the front row. Kimi Raikkonen took pole position for the 2008 French Grand Prix with his team-mate Felipe Massa second. Massa went on to win the race.
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I, for one, welcome our new Kimi Raikkonen overlords.
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Image source, Getty ImagesTwo wins out of three for Sebastian Vettel so far this season and now Ferrari have locked out the front row in Russia. That could suggest the German will run away with this one but it might not be that simple.
The fastest Mercedes has qualified only third but Valtteri Bottas was just 0.095 seconds off the pole time. And just as a Ferrari that qualified third was arguably the quickest race car in Bahrain two weeks ago, so Bottas was the fastest on the race-simulation runs in Russia on Friday. If Mercedes can get their strategy right, they could potentially still win this race.
“Obviously we’re not confident that we have the quickest car around here,” Bottas said. “Ferrari is very strong here. I think, as we’ve seen in all of the first three races, they have a good race pace and we think it’s going to be the same case here so it’s going to be a close one again.”
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Lewis Hamilton probably welcomed the challenge from the Ferraris and Sebastian Vettel at the start of the season but he's probably starting to feel pretty worried about just how strong that challenge is looking.
Vettel is the championship leader and is on pole position for today's race - ending Mercedes' run of 18 in a row. Hamilton starts on the second row. Unfamiliar territory.
It promises to be a fascinating race.
When Nico Rosberg retired, I imagine Lewis Hamilton's face was like this:
Image source, Getty ImagesThen, when Sebastian Vettel won the first race of the season, it may have been like this:
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