But the triumph by itself represents little, acquires more value when during the competition it defended itself from the attack of the Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas Y Lewis Hamilton, who completed the podium, but failed in their attacks to wrest the victory from Leclerc, who returned to the House of Maranello at the top on this track for the first time since the victory of Fernando Alonso in 2010.
The first laps left many emotions, starting with the contact that Max Verstappen suffered in the front of his Red Bull, as a result of having left from the final part. The incident led him to pits to change the wing.
Leclerc escaped ahead of Lewis Hamilton, while Sebastian Vettel He suffered to keep the fourth place.
The pressure on the Teuton seemed to take him to the limit and on the sixth lap he ended his chances of fighting for the podium when he suffered a spin.
The need to return quickly led him to resume the road insecurely by touching the right rear tire of the Racing Point of Lance Stroll, who also trompeó. The Canadian made the same mistake and took the Bull Rosso to the gravel of Pierre Gasly.
Both maneuvers did not go unnoticed by the commissioners and the four-time world champion was sanctioned with a 10-second stop & go that left him out of the top 10, while the Canadian received a slow pitch penalty for pits that ruined his chances of a major sum of points
With the series of incidents and penalties of the start of the competition, Sergio Pérez got in the middle of the race until the tenth position, this after having started at the 18th place after Saturday's engine change. In the end he crossed in seventh position, between the Red Bull of Alexander Albon and that of Max Verstappen.
The fight for victory was then left to Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton. The Briton was the first to go on pits on lap 20 placing medium tires. A turn later the Monegasque did the same, but mounted the toughest of the Pirelli range, briefly giving up the leadership to Valtteri Bottas.
The midpoint of the competition lived two periods of Virtual Safety Car, moments in which the McLaren of Carlos Sainz he left after his team misplaced the right front tire; that was followed by a Toro Rosso engine failure of Daniil Kvyat.
The neutralization was exploited by the Renault of Daniel Ricciardo, and without losing much time in the pits, he signed the fourth place in the race.
The last 20 laps put the recent winner of the Belgian Grand Prix to the test. First with Lewis Hamilton, who defended himself with all his talent, to the extent that the FIA considered that it went a little beyond what was allowed by showing him the white flag with black (warning).
The Englishman continued to press, but after 11 laps of the final he went long in the escape of the first corner, due to the wear of his tires. This opened the opportunity for Bottas, who had cooler tires after stopping eight spins after his partner in Mercedes, taking over as the hunter of the Monegasque.
With no chance to fight for victory, Mercedes called the five-time world champion pits three laps from the end to put on red tires and look for the extra point for the rapid turn of the competition. The mission accomplished it immediately by timing 1m21,779s.
Go ahead, Bottas did not keep up and only achieved the best seat to witness the surrender of Italy to what the new hero of the team looks like; Charles Leclerc
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