Bottas fits the soft tires. Vettel moves up to 14th, and Raikkonen gets clear of Leclerc to take sixth place. Raikkonen is in seventh, while Leclerc is in sixth. Co-owner, Chief Editor and a journalist for FormulaSpy.com - Ireland's only accredited F1 & Formula E website. After 10 laps the field is starting to spread out with Lewis Hamilton holding over a two-second gap to Max Verstappen.A further seven seconds back is Aussie Daniel Ricciardo in third who pulled off one of his patented overtakes to move onto the podium.Braking decidedly later than opponent Carlos Sainz, Ricciardo stole the place and began the task of chasing down his teammate.The race stewards handed down their punishment to Sebastian Vettel for causing the chaos on the opening lap with the German receiving a five-second penalty.The Formula 1 returned to France for the first time in 10 years and the packed stands couldn’t get enough of the show.After witnessing a man zooming above the track on a futuristic jet-pack, the cars lined up and the race got underway.Lewis Hamilton lead the grid away from pole position but behind him chaos ensued as Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas collided.Vettel made a solid start and as the first corner approached he tried to dive down the inside of Hamilton and Bottas but collected the rear right tyre of Bottas.The incident was being investigated by the racing stewards with Vettel in the gun for causing the carnage.Lights out and there's drama for Bottas has been hit by Vettel! Serene Hamilton wins incident-packed French Grand PrixPirelli becomes title sponsor of Formula 1 2018 Grand Prix de France© 2003-2020 Formula One World Championship Limited Raikkonen took the spot around the outside, and is into the podium places. Now the tough past. Hulkenberg’s team radio tells him to get after Grosjean. “He f****d all his laps, he had fuel for I don’t know how many laps, everyone else has fuel for one lap, so to begin with I thought he would box because he f****d his lap.“And then he tries again immediately the lap after. Vettel rejoins in fifth after serving his five-second penalty, and he’s over 30 seconds back of Raikkonen in fourth. There’s a lot of work going on behind the scenes investigating what is going wrong for us.”Those sentiments were echoed by team chief Zak Brown, who said the team is “working hard and we are working very closely together”.“The car that we have put in the hands of Stoffel and Fernando is frustrating,” he said. The race was the eighth round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship and marked the first time that the French Grand Prix has been run since 2008. Sirotkin gets a five-second penalty for the aforementioned incident and, well, he’s already in last so ...We may have some rain! Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull is right behind Bottas with 84 points.Vettel will start third on the grid ahead of Max Verstappen of Red Bull, then Ricciardo and then Kimi Raikkonnen, Vettel’s teammate.The surprise of qualifying was the young Charles Leclerc putting his Sauber into the third qualifying session, where he also managed to put himself past both of the Haas F1 cars to start eighth on the grid. He took the lead from Sebastian Vettel of Ferrari, who crashed on the first lap but carved his way through the field to finish fifth and mitigate some of the damage.Max Verstappen of Red Bull and Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari had the other two podium spots. Verstappen goes past him, and so does Vettel, now in fourth place! Lewis Hamilton won the French Grand Prix from start to finish. Gasly hit Ocon, while Vettel made contact with Grosjean. It’s tragic.”Lewis Hamilton escaped unscathed to reclaim the Drivers Championship with a win in France. Live: French Grand Prix. There’s no way to predict what he is going to do.“And then he obviously overtakes me into Turn 1, and f***s my lap, and doesn’t even complete his lap.“I don’t know, if you’re that confused, just try not to get in the way of anyone else.”FIA stewards opted against punishing Raikkonen for any interference.Q1 and Q2 were very good for us. We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from.

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