- Bottas wins from pole as Lewis Hamilton struggles to fifth
- Max Verstappen takes six-point lead in title standings
Valtteri Bottas has won the Turkish Grand Prix, with the Mercedes driver successfully negotiating tricky wet conditions from pole position in Istanbul to take his first race victory of the season. Max Verstappen finished second to take a six-point lead in the championship standings, with Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez third.
Lewis Hamilton had received a 10-place grid penalty for taking a new engine before the race and started from 11th, but rose through a turbulent field to within touching distance of the podium, before Mercedes told the British driver to pit on lap 47 for intermediate tyres. “We shouldn’t have come in man,” Hamilton told the Mercedes radio, after Hamilton slipped to from third to fifth place, from which he didn’t recover.
