Summary

  • Bottas wins, Verstappen 2nd, Hamilton 3rd

  • Hamilton penalised for practice start in wrong position

  • Sainz and Stroll out in separate first-lap crashes

  • Get involved: #bbcf1

Live Reporting

Michael Emons

  1. Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    How does he come back from that? I don't know. He is in a really difficult spot now.

  2. Get Involved #bbcf1

    Hamilton given two five-second penalties

    Jay: Did Lewis do two practice starts? Video seems to show tracks already down on the ground from where he did the start.

    Owen: Is Hamilton picking up penalties just to make things interesting for himself? Bored from strolling around in clean air, wants to get him some racing?

    Francesca Gunn: That should be Mercedes violation! He asked if it was fine! They told him it was!!

  3. Jack Nicholls
    BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator

    He got one time penalty for the practice start and another five second penalty for an illegal start. Ten seconds in total.

  4. Another five-second penalty for Hamilton

    Wow. It's getting even worse for Hamilton.

    Two penalties for practice start infringements. That's a 10-second penalty he's got coming his way.

  5. 'Those are the rules'

    Lap 8/53

    Jack Nicholls
    BBC Radio 5 Live F1 commentator

    Five second time penalty for a very small infraction, but those are the rules. You are not allowed to do it.

  6. Five-second penalty for Hamilton

    Big, big news.

    Lewis Hamilton, after doing a practice start in the wrong place, is given a five-second time penalty for when he comes in to pit.

  7. 'Norris told to take it steady'

    Jennie Gow
    BBC Radio 5 live pit-lane reporter

    Just listening across Lando Norris' McLaren team radio and they are telling him to build confidence on the steering, don't go for hot laps, just go steady.

  8. Lando Norris was at the back, now he's got ahead of Alexander Albon. Podium last time out. Now last.

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    Sainz and Stroll out after early crashes

    Kaitlynn: Why isn't Verstappen under investigation for deliberately leaving the track, he wasn't forced off, he did it to gain an advantage!

    Simon: Did Sainz really need to go through the chicane? There seemed to be several cars go off the track more than him who just rejoined without using it.

    Touch & Learn: I’m sorry but Max gained a massive advantage at the first corner. Surely this should be investigated. It’s was obviously deliberate.

  10. A solid restart from Lewis Hamilton who holds off Valtteri Bottas. The early smashes elsewhere may not be the worst news for Hamilton as he will be able to nurse his soft tyres for longer before he can go on to either the hards or mediums and do the one-stop that he's hoping for.

  11. Lap 5/53

    We're under way again. Lewis Hamilton leads them out. Can Bottas jump his team-mate?

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  12. Watch out for the restart

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    If Bottas has a good start, he's got a real chance to use the slipstream and challenge Lewis for the lead here.

  13. Safety car ending

  14. Alexander Albon is in the clear. The man to bang into Lance Stroll was... Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.

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    Sainz and Stroll crash on first lap

    Roxy: The sound of that Sainz crash. Ouch.

    Jeremiah: Someone should have warned Sainz to keep an eye on the wall! What a cheap way to chip it of the fronts!

    Sainz car os towed awayReuters

  16. Team radio

    Lap 3/53

    Lando Norris: Something is not right, keeps changing when steering from left to right.

  17. The order so far after first-lap chaos (starting places in brackets)

    1. Hamilton (1)
    2. Bottas (3)
    3. Verstappen (2)
    4. Ocon (7)
    5. Ricciardo (5)
    6. Perez (4)
    7. Gasly (9)
    8. Leclerc (10)
    9. Magnussen (18)
    10. Grosjean (16)
    11. Kvyat (11)
    12. Giovinazzi (17)
    13. Vettel (14)
    14. Latifi (20)
    15. Raikkonen (19)
    16. Russell (13)
    17. Albon (15)
    18. Norris (8)

    Out: Sainz, Stroll

  18. 'A critical error'

    Lap 3/53

    Jolyon Palmer
    Former Renault driver on BBC Radio 5 live

    It's a critical error I have to say from Sainz, he didn't slow down enough going through the bollards and whacked the left side barrier. Not a sensible move from him.

  19. We're on lap three, although we've not had any action since the first few turns. Fifty-three is our total.

  20. So it seems like Carlos Sainz made an error that has cost him any further involvement in this race but Lance Stroll was more unlucky, clipped from behind. Maybe Alexander Albon. Maybe Charles Leclerc.