F1 Emilia Romagna GP Live Commentary and Updates - Race day
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Giovinazzi is forced into an unscheduled pitstop due to a brake issue with his Alfa Romeo. That drops him down to P15 and now we are struggling to think of any driver who has had a clean race up to now.
"What's happening with the shifts?" Stroll yells over his team radio. He's told his Aston Martin keeps losing sync. That could be why he lost out to Hamilton in a drag race on the back straight.
Perez's spin has relegated him to P14, giving Hamilton a place by default, and the Mercedes driver then gets ahead of Stroll to move up to sixth place.
Different circumstances but Hamilton faces a similar recovery drive to what he needed at last year's Italian GP after he was penalised. Hamilton climbed back up to seventh place that day.
Tsunoda gets going again but is down in P15. Hamilton is in eighth place behind Stroll.
At the restart Tsunoda has spun and is in the gravel! He looks to have made contact with someone in the midfield fighters.
Raikkonen spun on the formation lap but got away with one and is still in this race.
So, after a few deep breaths and time to find composure, this race is about to get underway once again.
Here's the developing story on the Bottas/Russell crash which has halted the Emilia Romagna GP: https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/emilia-romagna-gp-red-flagged-after-bottas-russell-crash/6330774/
The incident between Russell and Bottas will be investigated after the race, which is still under a red flag.
Raikkonen had the prime view of the Russell vs Bottas crash, with his onboard camera showing Russell pushed wide trying to overtake on the outside of Bottas. With two wheels on the wet grass he instantly lost control and clashed with Bottas.
What a mad few minutes. To recap, Hamilton went off on his own but is still in the race and currently P9 under this red flag on lap 34. Half a lap later after Hamilton's off, Russell and Bottas crashed at high speed which caused the red flag and the massive mess at Turn 1.
Russell angrily remonstrated with Bottas when he got out of the car. That was a massive impact and Russell was clearly not happy with how Bottas defended.
The replays show Russell trying to go around the outside of Bottas in the run down to Turn 1, the Williams driver dips his right-side wheels on to the grass and that sends him into the side of Bottas at high speed.
The safety car is out - both Russell and Bottas appear to be OK but both they are out of the race after crashing at Turn 1!
Big crash involving Bottas and Russell!
We can add Alonso to the dry tyre party after he pitted at the end of lap 29. Can you imagine if it started raining now?
By: Jake Boxall-Legge, Haydn Cobb, Megan White
