Verstappen experienced DRS problems, which prevented him from getting past
George Russell for a long time. Eventually Red Bull decided to put Verstappen on a three-stop and it paid off. Perez was trounced, as was Russell.
Carlos Sainz fell outside the podium after an early slide in Turn 4.
Lewis Hamilton seemed to have the best papers for fourth place, which eventually went to Sainz, but temperature problems forced him to slow down quite a bit in the closing stages.
Valtteri Bottas managed to secure sixth place, just ahead of
Esteban Ocon and
Lando Norris. Fernando Alonso had to start from the very back of the grid, but with a P9 he doubled his world championship points tally. Yuki Tsunoda scored the final point. The
Haas F1 team is one of the bigger losers.
Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher started in the top-ten, but failed to maintain their positions.