Max Verstappen won an exciting French Grand Prix to extend his world championship lead over Lewis Hamilton to 12 points. Hamilton is quicker than Verstappen in the first two sectors though both drivers are now starting to creep up on traffic. So Verstappen now just has Hamilton ahead, but there’s a 4.3 second gap with eight laps to go. Hamilton is starting to show some good pace though Bottas is not happy. Hamilton is asking about Verstappen’s pace but it seems like Mercedes have radio issues of their own as the Brit can’t hear anything in response!. So with 17 laps to go, Hamilton leads by 2.4 to Bottas with Verstappen a further ten seconds behind. So, the Mercedes pit crew are still waiting still and Hamilton leads by 3.8 to his teammate Bottas with Perez  a further 12 seconds down and Verstappen 2 behind him. Hamilton is 2.3 seconds behind Verstappen while Bottas tells his team he can’t see himself running till the end of this race. Hamilton is as close as he’s been to Verstappen going into the first corner while Bottas has had a scruffy lap in third and has dropped 1.3 seconds behind his teammate. Hamilton asks his team if he’s coming into the pits to cover Bottas and Verstappen and that’s what he does.

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