“It’s crazy, honestly, it’s just crazy,” Pierre Gasly said after scoring his maiden Formula 1 victory. This was Lewis Hamilton’s 93rd pole in Formula 1 and his fifth out of six races this year. At the end of lap 1 Hamilton already had a 1.7 second lead over Sainz. The safety car had been deployed so that the corner workers could push Kevin Magnussen’s stranded Haas into the pit lane. Hamilton had failed to see the two big screens on the edge of the track that were lit up with a big red X. “We should have spotted earlier that the pit lane was closed, by the time that we did, the car was entering the pit lane. Most of the drivers pitted at the end of lap 22 now that the pitlane was open.

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