RED BULL
MAX VERSTAPPEN
Started 1st------------Result 1st
9 Carted off into an untroubled lead after the first-corner clash between the Mercedes drivers, and never looked back. Had to pick up the pace in the second half to cover off McLarens, but was never really at full pelt. Felt mandatory stops dulled Red Bull’s edge on tyre life, not that it changed much.
SERGIO PEREZ
4 Started 20th---Result 10th
Track-limits penalties giveth and taketh away. Perez was lucky that cars ahead had more than him. Dropped a further position following an added track-limits violation, so loses a further point. Started from pitlane, but made slow progress, dwarfed by Russell’s efforts in inferior car.
