Sainz said Mercedes appeared to have become the closest threat to Red Bull.

The Ferrari driver said “the biggest surprise is how close were Mercedes in this race.” Hamilton also overhauled Carlos Sainz Jnr as he moved his way forward. “I was expecting us to be the strongest car after Red Bull, I expected after all the races this year to have pace to do something good today, we just didn’t have it.” “I’m not really sure where they found that pace. “They had a rocket ship today,” Stroll told media including RaceFans at the Circuit de Catalunya. Lance Stroll said he thought his Aston Martin would be the second-quickest car behind the dominant Red Bulls and was surprised how easily Hamilton passed him early in the race. Still active in Ind圜ar, usually taking rather scared celebrities around in the two-seater machine, Andretti made a bet with McLaren boss Zak Brown back at the Miami Grand Prix.īrown promised to put Andretti into one of his modern F1 machines for a one-off test.įive months later, the 2013 McLaren MP4-28 was shipped off to Laguna Seca - as Andretti returned to the track once again in F1 machinery.Lewis Hamilton rose from fourth on the grid to finish second while George Russell completed the team’s first double podium finish of the season having started 12th.

In 1995, he came close to unofficially 'completing' motorsport with a second place overall finish in the Le Mans 24 Hours. Now 82, Andretti remains the only driver to have won the F1 World Championship (1978), US open wheel championship (1965, 1966, 1969, 1984), Indy 500 (1969), and Daytona 500 (1967). One name who is wrongly overshadowed by some is Mario Andretti - probably the most successful racing driver there is. Michael Schumacher perhaps for galvanising Ferrari or Lewis Hamilton re-writing the record books in the modern day - but then what could the great Jim Clark or Ayrton Senna gone onto achieve had they not been cut down in their prime? When it comes to the debate around the so-called 'Greatest of All-Time' in motorsport/Formula 1, there are the usual suspects near the top of the list.

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