Instead of scoring 25 or 18 points, he left with 12. While fighting Bottas for the win late on, he locked up at Turn 1 and ran wide, damaging his tyres and falling down the order to fourth. In Azerbaijan, Vettel would make his first significant blunder of the year.
Hamilton would take the final spot on the podium as Vettel had to settle for eighth. His teammate, Max Verstappen, had made a similar stop but several clumsy moves took him out of contention - one of them also spun Vettel out of third place and relegated him down the order. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo would take victory after capitalising on a well-timed Safety Car period to pit for fresh tyres. But the race was dramatic: once again Bottas and Vettel were fighting for a Hamilton - 33 Hamilton fights back, Vettel makes his first errorĪt the Chinese Grand Prix, Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen led a Ferrari front row lockout - something Sky Sports pundit Damon Hill likened to "empires rising and falling". Ferrari's strongest start to an F1 season since 2004 had raised excitement around the Maranello team. That meant Vettel and Valtteri Bottas would fight it out for the win - Vettel would cling on despite coming under late pressure, while Hamilton finished third. In Bahrain, Hamilton was forced to start ninth after a penalty for a new gearbox. Mercedes had misjudged an ill-timed Virtual Safety Car (VSC) and Vettel was able to emerge from his pit-stop with the lead and ultimately the victory. Afterwards, he joked to Vettel that he had enjoyed "wiping the smile off your face".īut it would be Vettel smiling on Sunday afternoon, as a Mercedes strategy blunder handed Ferrari the opening victory of the season.
However, the Australian Grand Prix appeared to sow some doubt about how close the season would be, with Lewis Hamilton claiming a comfortable pole position on the Saturday. Winter testing left little doubt in people's minds: Ferrari had a very competitive race car for 2018. How Lewis Hamilton won and Sebastian Vettel lost the 2018 world championshipĪ look at the key moments of the season and how Lewis Hamilton beat Sebastian Vettel in their quest to beat the other man to a fifth world championship this year - and the sequence of events which helped the former wrap it up with two races still to spare.
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