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That late call caught Mercedes completely off guard and left Hamilton totally overmatched against Verstappen when his Red Bull machine was positioned right behind the Mercedes.
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Instead of sending all the lapped traffic to the end of the line, which would’ve taken longer than there were laps left to run in the race, Masi waited until the last minute just to shoo away the five cars in between Hamilton and Verstappen - teeing the two rivals up for a sudden-death, single-lap shootout for all the marbles. While Verstappen pitted for fresh tires, Hamilton was kept on track to maintain his position in the lead, on the belief that his much older tires and the five cars’ worth of lapped traffic in between him and Verstappen would hold up until the end.īut that math changed when Red Bull team principal Christian Horner radioed race director Michael Masi and sternly advised him to reset the cars to their true running order. Or at least that was until a late crash brought out the safety car with five laps to go.
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Or, to put it another way: the sport’s first and only Black driver would have a legitimate claim to undisputed GOAT status. He was leading with a solid gap on Max Verstappen, the Red Bull prodigy with whom Hamilton entered the race atop the standings - setting the stage for a Game 7-style race that would come down to the highest finisher.įor Hamilton, though, taking the checkered flag wouldn’t have just broken a points tie with Verstappen this year, it would have further separated him from Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher as Formula One’s first-ever eight-time champion.
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Sebastian Vettel won 13 of 19 races and his fourth drivers championship.Mark Webber left Formula One after his twelfth season.
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Fernando Alonso finished second, 155 points behind Vettel.Five drivers made their Formula One debut in Australia.Red Bull won the championship for constructors.ġ1 constructors and 23 drivers participated in 19 races during the 64th season of the FIA Formula One World Championchip. Fernando Alonso was second and Mark Webber third. Sebastian Vettel won the 2013 Formula One World Championship for drivers.