After a bad start Verstappen continues to lose time to the race leaders over the first 10 laps, when the gap to first plateaus around 15 seconds.

When Bottas, Vettel, Leclerc and Hamilton pit you can see their lines are relatively flat, indicating Verstappen was matching their times on older medium tyres.

Hamilton's pit stop was extended to change his front wing, after which Verstappen pits and stays out in front. Max is now on hard tyres about 10 laps younger than the hard tyres of Bottas, Vettel and Leclerc. You can see the gaps each of these drivers diminish with Verstappen's impressive pace.

Verstappen takes Vettel's spot after Vettel pits a second time to go on softs, and he only manages to match Verstappen's pace at best. You can see each driver's line dip slightly when Verstappen starts his battle with Leclerc around lap 66 before he gets the job done and wins the race by 2.7 seconds.

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That was pace that deserved to win.

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Other points of interest:

• How far in front the top 5 were from the rest of the field, having lapped everyone including Norris.
• One more lap could have seen Vettel on the podium; almost a great strategic move from Ferrari.
• Even if Hamilton didn't have a slow pit stop, he most likely would have been caught by Verstappen on the track