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Dutch Red Bull rider Max Versthaben won first place in the German Grand Prix, the 11th stage of the Formula One World Championship, which has seen many fluctuations and numerous accidents in rainy weather conditions .
The Dutchman ended the race against German Sebastian Vettel, who had taken off the last 20 games after failing to qualify for the qualifying session, while Toro Rosso's Russian driver Richard Caviat was third.
World champion Lewis Hamilton failed to score a point in eleventh place, and his Finnish colleague, Valtieri Potas, retired while his car slid and collapsed against the wall .
Hamilton, who stopped at the maintenance center six times, was unable to score for the first time in 23 races.
The disastrous results of the Silver Share team came as Hockenheim celebrated its 200th race in the first category and the 125th anniversary of its entry into the world of motorsport.
It was the second win of the year after the Austrian Grand Prix, the seventh of his career, placing him in third place in the drivers standings at 162 points after adding the most points race, while Hamilton led 223 points against Potas. Vettel increased his lead to 141 points in fourth place.
In the lead, Mercedes leads with 407 points, ahead of Ferrari (261) and Red Bull (217).
"To make the right decisions, you have to be a center," he said of his victory after four saves at the maintenance center. "It was fun, but misleading.We have soft tires that drove the car by slipping in. But then things went well!"
Vettel felt that the race was "very long" and "sometimes it feels like it will never stop." It was fun, but it was hard to say if you were making the right decisions or not . "
The German has repudiated the disappointment of last year and has reconciled with his supporters when he missed the opportunity to win the line and place himself at the top of the standings He also returned to the podium for the first time since the Grand Prix du Canada, the seventh leg of this year's championship, where he also finished second.
This year, Kfiyat returned to defend the colors of the Toro Rosso team, which he had abandoned in mid-2017, claiming that the race resembled a "horror film with a black comedy" . "
The Russian has reached the podium for the third time in his Formula 1 career after the 2015 Hungarian Grand Prix (second solution) and China 2016 (third).
"It's wonderful to come back on the podium for me and Loro Rousseau a few years later," he said about the team's absence among the top-three.
Apart from Friday and Saturday, where the tests were held at high temperatures, the race was held (64 laps) on a ring wet with rainwater.
Hamilton took the lead against Botas and Kimi Raikkonen (Alfa Romeo), who made a bad start at the expense of Verchtapen, fourth, before returning to third in the second lap, overtaking Raikkonen.
The drivers have rained. On lap 29, Ferrari driver Charles Loklier of Monaco, who was on his way to tenth place and who was third, made a mistake that drove him off the track and called the car safety .
However, the referees' committee opened an investigation because of Britney's bad return to the maintenance center and found him guilty of not obeying the maintenance center's line and imposed a penalty of $ 20,000. 39, adding 5 seconds to his time. .
Hamilton asked the team, after leaving the platforms via the internal communication system to know the extent of the damage, that the answer comes "front wing only".
Botas beat 36-year-old Nico Holkenberg (Renault) in second place, before the German car slipped to the 41st turn around Locker and Hamilton, hitting the wall and pulling in the safety car.
Hamilton made 48 laps on the platforms to change tires and run the five-minute penalty, leaving Lance Stroll in the lead before Versthaben was over 48.
Hamilton criticized his team for the bad strategy that led him to return to 12th place via the internal communication system, before falling back to 13th place due to a driving error following a mistake in driving lap 54 .
In the last moments of the moment, Potas stopped on lap 57 after his car crashed against the wall, causing Toto Wolf, the team's manager, to hit the table angrily. , showed a television sequence. Vettel was under the thunderous applause of the crowd, The penultimate race after the race was reduced to 64 laps instead of 67, in second place behind Kafiyat.
Carlos Stainz (McLaren), Alex Albun (Toro Rosso), Alfaromio Raikkonen, Italian Antonio Giovinzati, Frenchman Romain Grosjean, Haas and Denmark's teammate Kevin Magenson finished in the top ten.
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