Azerbaijan Grand Prix race day
By: Geoff Creighton
Summary
Status: Stopped
Ricciardo pours the champagne in. Looks like Stroll is his chosen victim. "You realise this is going to scar me for life," Stroll says.
Coulthard has pre-empted the mandatory Ricciardo 'shoey' and is unlacing the Red Bull driver's boot.
Stroll: "It was a hectic race, we just kept out of trouble. I just lost out to Valtteri, I think that was probably one of the closest finishes of all time. I couldn't believe coming into the weekend that we would be on the podium."
Ricciardo: "It was a crazy race. We knew the podium was a chance after the restart but then we heard the problems with Lewis and Seb. I made an unplanned pitstop at the beginning, we had some debris and had to clear it. This was the race we expected last year with all the safety cars and the chaos."
David Coulthard heads onto the podium to conduct the interviews. "Did anyone predict this podium," he asks the fans.
Incidentally, Bottas set his best lap of the race on the last lap as he overhauled Stroll. Mighty effort.
Stroll heads onto the podium. He's going to enjoy this moment. And he deserves to after a very difficult season to date.
Result:
1 Ricciardo
2 Bottas
3 Stroll
4 Vettel
5 Hamilton
6 Ocon
7 Magnussen
8 Sainz
9 Alonso
10 Wehrlein
11 Ericsson
12 Vandoorne
13 Grosjean
14 Raikkonen
1 Ricciardo
2 Bottas
3 Stroll
4 Vettel
5 Hamilton
6 Ocon
7 Magnussen
8 Sainz
9 Alonso
10 Wehrlein
11 Ericsson
12 Vandoorne
13 Grosjean
14 Raikkonen
"Oh man, he got me," says Stroll. He's told well done and mega drive. Replays show Bottas came from a long way back on the final straight to make that move.
It's a shame Stroll lost second, but he's still on the podium. He's had a huge amount of criticism this season, but that's still a great result.
McLaren gives Alonso clearance to "have another go", presumably at catching Sainz, "then we bring it home".
Raikkonen has pitted, looks like Ferrari's retiring him. He was a lapped 14th anyway. Ferrari cites water pressure.
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