Hamilton led his Mercedes teammate at home, Valtteri Bottas, by a double when Alexander Albon scored his first podium, taking advantage of a wear race he saw finishing 12 cars.
Despite squandering the race lead early on, Hamilton controlled to regain the lead over Bottas after the first red flag era, then to maintain his composure to record his sixth win of the season in a dominant fashion.
This causes Hamilton to increase his lead in the F1 drivers’ championship with 8 races ahead this season, having accumulated the bonus point for the fastest lap at the end.
The start saw Bottas make a bigger getaway than poleman Hamilton to take the lead at Turn 1, while Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc climbed to 3rd place after Max Verstappen fell back into the platoon, indicating a lack of power.
Verstappen’s career lasted only one more lap after being hit by Kimi Raikkonen, sending Red Bull to the gravel and out of the race. Italian Grand Prix winner Pierre Gasly’s career also ended in Turn 2 after a clash with Raikkonen before Alfa Romeo’s touch with Verstappen, resulting in the deployment of the protective car. Romain Grosjean and Sebastian Vettel were also trapped in the collision, but were able to continue.
Once the cars were cleared, the protective car called at the end of the sixth lap, only to be deployed backwards moments later after a multi-car crash on the pit lane.
After Bottas opted to slow down the platoon for the reboot, many extra visiting cyclists mis-calculated when to accelerate, which led Antonio Giovinazzi to collide with the rear of Haas’ driving force, Kevin Magnussen.
He also surrounded Carlos Sainz and Nicholas Latifi, pulling the four drivers out of the race and leaving debris strewn in the pits directly that forced the race to be marked with a red flag.
He followed a 25-minute wait before the race resumed on lap 10 with a steady start on the grid, but with only thirteen cars after Esteban Ocon was forced to surrender due to a brake problem.
Despite his smoldering brakes on the grid, Hamilton was able to sweep Bottas’ exterior into Turn 1 to regain leadership, whether Mercedes temporarily clears with a new set of medium rubber tires.
Leclerc controlled to hold third place for Ferrari on reboot, but temporarily faced the tension of the cars while fighting for direct speed. Lance Stroll was successful on the last step of the podium on lap 18 with a pass to Leclerc, which he then lost, putting Daniel Ricciardo, Alexander Albon and Sergio Pérez on consecutive laps, taking Ferrari back to seventh position before fighting for a difficult set.
Hamilton first controlled to maintain a solid two-second hole with Bottas after the reboot, but saw his merit accumulate as the Finn struggled with the wear and tear of his front tires.
Bottas radioed mercedes’ pit wall to request the opposite compound to Hamilton at the next pit stop in an effort to reach the hole more than seven seconds until he reached the end of lap 31 for hard tyres.
Mercedes informed Hamilton that bottas opposed them first for protection reasons before returning the race leader one lap later. Hamilton also supplied hard tires, according to Bottas’ strategy, and came out of the pits with a pad of more than six. Seconds.
In the war for the whole podium, Renault moved to get the go-ahead in Stroll by taking Ricciardo to the end of lap 27 for a new set of medium tyres. Racing Point reacted 3 laps later, but it’s been too long to stay Stroll in the lead when Ricciardo received the jump, returning to 3rd place once Albon made his pit stop for Red Bull and backed down in fifth position.
Eager to protect their merit and take the car from either car, Mercedes informed Hamilton and Bottas, with 20 laps by the end, to stay away from all sidewalks and remove the car from their tires. Bottas joked that a “safety car would be fine, wouldn’t it?now “after seeing that Hamilton’s advantage stabilized in six seconds.
His wish was granted five laps later when the protective car was deployed after a turn of destination for Stroll, fourth, on Turn 9, starting at top speed at the tire barrier after his car broke down on the sidewalk. Ride able to get out of the car unanswered and away from the place of the destination turn, reporting a puncture.
Most drivers reacted temporarily to the deployment of car protection using new tires, with Hamilton retaining merit over Bottas despite his arrival a lap later.
But the race later received a red flag for the time being on the forty-five lap so that the maintenance of the barrier can be completed at turn 9, which establishes a final race of thirteen laps to the end with only 12 cars in circulation, all supplied with comfortable tires for the restart.
Bottas had to fight once again, sliding Ricciardo into the race on Turn 1 when Hamilton cleared the lead in 3rd. fourth position while aiming for his first F1 podium.
Albon controlled to close Ricciardo two laps later, placing himself side-by-side outside the doors of Turn 1 before moving on to the third. Response.
But Hamilton controlled to adjust to Bottas’ speed in the latter stages, even though it all completed the race 4. 8 seconds ahead to achieve the record victory in Mugello, winning the bonus point for the fastest lap of the process.
Bottas crossed the line a moment ahead of Albon, who controlled to record his first F1 podium for Red Bull in third place.
Ricciardo matched his result since joining Renault by completing fourth place, falling slightly on his first podium since Monaco 2018 and winning a bet on the podium with team manager Cyril Abiteboul.
Pérez crossed the fifth row for Racing Point after a long war with Lando Norris, who saw him transparent after the last reboot, leaving McLaren’s driving force in sixth place on the checkered flag.
Daniil Kvyat recorded his result of the season so far for AlphaTauri, completing seventh, while Ferrari controlled to record a double to mark his 1000th career. Charles Leclerc made three pit stops while batting tire wear, but climbed to eighth position after Kimi Raikkonen won a five-second penalty for crossing the white line at the entrance of the pits , taking him back to ninth place.
Sebastian Vettel finished 10th for Ferrari, scoring his first problems since the Spanish Grand Prix after jumping on Williams’ George Russell on the last reboot.
Russell on the track for his first F1 problems for much of the race, to return to the final stages and finish the race in 11th place, matching his most productive F1 result.
Romain Grosjean was Haas’ runner-up in 12th place, completing nearly 10 seconds of Russell.
2020 F1 Grand Prix race results