French Grand Prix: Max Verstappen Outpaced Lewis Hamilton In Late Stunning Overtake

 

Max Verstappen delivered a late stunning overtake of Lewis Hamilton to become the French Grand Prix winner and ended Mercedes' dominance of the race since its return to F1 three seasons ago. 

Hamilton had gain the provisional lead  Max spun off to drop behind, but the remaining two laps (Lap 52 and 53) would determined the winner of the race when the Red Bull overtook his rival to emerge as the quickest. 

In effect, Verstappen extended his F1 championship table lead over Hamilton for the first time in his career since joining the racing the team. The Dutchman gained a 12-point over the defending champion, Hamilton, having won the race as title race gets bitter between the two teams. Mercedes. 

Losing the race did not come as a surprise to Hamilton either and admitted that besides having no tyres left, the team hasn't had good right from the practise session until the final. 

"I just think considering we had such a difficult Friday, I'm really happy with today's result," said Hamilton. "of course we didn't win, and we were in the lead, but I had no tyres left at the end."

It happened that Hamilton was struggling to keep his rival at bay when they both matched, but Verstappen had the advantage having just changed his tyres and capitalised on that to sped by the British driver. 

Meanwhile, Red Bull just recorded their first hat-trick since their last in 2013 with Sebastian Vettel. However, Verstappen won two out the three were and Sergio Perez who finished third today, won his first race of the season and the team's third at Baku, Azerbaijan.