Race · Round 16 of 21 · 30 September 2018

2018 Russian Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes from 2nd on the grid at Sochi Autodrom. 2 of the starters were not classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 23 °C, 0.2 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

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Circuit: Sochi AutodromSochi, Russia
Winner: Sir Lewis HamiltonMercedes
Pole: Valtteri Bottas
Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas
Entries: 2018 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W09	2	53	Finished	25
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W09	1	53	Finished	18	fastest lap
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	SF71H	3	53	Finished	15
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	SF71H	4	53	Finished	12
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB14	19	53	Finished	10
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	RB14	18	53	Finished	8
7	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	C37	7	53	Finished	6
8	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	VF-18	5	52	Finished	4
9	Esteban Ocon	Force India	VJM11	6	52	Finished	2
10	Sergio Perez	Force India	VJM11	8	52	Finished	1
11	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	VF-18	9	52	Finished	0
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	R.S.18	12	52	Finished	0
13	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	C37	10	52	Finished	0
14	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	MCL33	16	52	Finished	0
15	Lance Stroll	Williams	FW41	14	52	Finished	0
16	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	MCL33	15	51	Finished	0
17	Carlos Sainz	Renault	R.S.18	11	51	Finished	0
18	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	FW41	13	51	Finished	0
DNF	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR13	17	4	Brakes	0
DNF	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	STR13	20	4	Brakes	0

F1DB layout sirius-1 · 5.848 km · 18 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Lewis Hamilton	2	1	53
Valtteri Bottas	1	2	53
Sebastian Vettel	3	3	53
Kimi Raikkonen	4	4	53
Max Verstappen	19	5	53
Daniel Ricciardo	18	6	53
Charles Leclerc	7	7	53
Kevin Magnussen	5	8	52
Esteban Ocon	6	9	52
Sergio Perez	8	10	52
Romain Grosjean	9	11	52
Nico Hulkenberg	12	12	52
Marcus Ericsson	10	13	52
Fernando Alonso	16	14	52
Lance Stroll	14	15	52
Stoffel Vandoorne	15	16	51
Carlos Sainz	11	17	51
Sergey Sirotkin	13	18	51
Pierre Gasly	17	DNF	4
Brendon Hartley	20	DNF	4

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:32.964	1:32.744	1:31.387	—	0 m	—
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:32.410	1:32.595	1:31.532	+0.145	9 m	+0.145
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:33.476	1:33.045	1:31.943	+0.556	36 m	+0.411
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:33.341	1:33.065	1:32.237	+0.850	54 m	+0.294
5	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:34.078	1:33.747	1:33.181	+1.794	115 m	+0.944
6	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:34.290	1:33.596	1:33.413	+2.026	130 m	+0.232
7	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:33.924	1:33.488	1:33.419	+2.032	130 m	+0.006
8	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:34.084	1:33.923	1:33.563	+2.176	139 m	+0.144
9	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:34.022	1:33.517	1:33.704	+2.317	148 m	+0.141
10	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:34.170	1:33.995	1:35.196	+3.809	244 m	+1.492
11	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:33.048	—	—	—	40 m	—
12	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:33.247	—	—	—	53 m	—
13	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:34.383	—	—	—	125 m	—
14	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:34.626	—	—	—	140 m	—
15	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:34.655	—	—	—	142 m	—
16	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:35.037	—	—	—	166 m	—
17	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:35.504	—	—	—	196 m	—
18	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:35.612	—	—	—	203 m	—
19	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:35.977	—	—	—	226 m	—
20	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:36.437	—	—	—	255 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	53	1	14	29.6
Valtteri Bottas	2	53	1	12	29.8
Sebastian Vettel	3	53	1	13	29.8
Kimi Raikkonen	4	53	1	18	29.5
Max Verstappen	5	53	1	43	29.4
Daniel Ricciardo	6	53	1	39	37.4
Charles Leclerc	7	53	1	10	30.4
Kevin Magnussen	8	52	1	9	29.9
Esteban Ocon	9	52	1	10	30.6
Sergio Perez	10	52	1	12	29.9
Romain Grosjean	11	52	1	8	30.5
Nico Hulkenberg	12	52	1	35	30.6
Marcus Ericsson	13	52	2	11, 37	30.1, 30.1
Fernando Alonso	14	52	1	5	30.3
Lance Stroll	15	52	1	7	29.3
Stoffel Vandoorne	16	51	1	11	29.6
Carlos Sainz	17	51	1	32	30.0
Sergey Sirotkin	18	51	1	10	29.9
Pierre Gasly	DNF	4	0	None recorded	—
Brendon Hartley	DNF	4	1	3	29.4

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Valtteri Bottas · Sir Lewis Hamilton	1 · 2	2 · 1	12 · 14	Valtteri Bottas	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Sebastian Vettel	2 · 3	1 · 3	14 · 13	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Sebastian Vettel	1 · 3	2 · 3	12 · 13	Valtteri Bottas	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Kimi Raikkonen	3 · 4	3 · 4	13 · 18	Sebastian Vettel	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Max Verstappen	4 · 19	4 · 5	18 · 43	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Kevin Magnussen	4 · 5	4 · 8	18 · 9	Kevin Magnussen	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Max Verstappen	18 · 19	6 · 5	39 · 43	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Charles Leclerc · Daniel Ricciardo	7 · 18	7 · 6	10 · 39	Charles Leclerc	Swapped places
Kevin Magnussen · Charles Leclerc	5 · 7	8 · 7	9 · 10	Kevin Magnussen	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Charles Leclerc	6 · 7	9 · 7	10 · 10	Same lap	Swapped places
Charles Leclerc · Sergio Perez	7 · 8	7 · 10	10 · 12	Charles Leclerc	Kept their order
Kevin Magnussen · Esteban Ocon	5 · 6	8 · 9	9 · 10	Kevin Magnussen	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Sergio Perez	6 · 8	9 · 10	10 · 12	Esteban Ocon	Kept their order
Sergio Perez · Romain Grosjean	8 · 9	10 · 11	12 · 8	Romain Grosjean	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Nico Hulkenberg	9 · 12	11 · 12	8 · 35	Romain Grosjean	Kept their order
Romain Grosjean · Marcus Ericsson	9 · 10	11 · 13	8 · 11	Romain Grosjean	Kept their order
Marcus Ericsson · Nico Hulkenberg	10 · 12	13 · 12	11 · 35	Marcus Ericsson	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Nico Hulkenberg	11 · 12	17 · 12	32 · 35	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Sergey Sirotkin	12 · 13	12 · 18	35 · 10	Sergey Sirotkin	Kept their order
Marcus Ericsson · Fernando Alonso	10 · 16	13 · 14	11 · 5	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Marcus Ericsson · Carlos Sainz	10 · 11	13 · 17	11 · 32	Marcus Ericsson	Kept their order
Lance Stroll · Fernando Alonso	14 · 16	15 · 14	7 · 5	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Stoffel Vandoorne · Fernando Alonso	15 · 16	16 · 14	11 · 5	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Sergey Sirotkin · Lance Stroll	13 · 14	18 · 15	10 · 7	Lance Stroll	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Stoffel Vandoorne	14 · 15	15 · 16	7 · 11	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Stoffel Vandoorne	11 · 15	17 · 16	32 · 11	Stoffel Vandoorne	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Sergey Sirotkin	11 · 13	17 · 18	32 · 10	Sergey Sirotkin	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:34.488	—	0 m	—	19
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:34.538	+0.050	3 m	+0.050	22
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:34.818	+0.330	20 m	+0.280	23
4	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:34.999	+0.511	32 m	+0.181	28
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:35.524	+1.036	64 m	+0.525	11
6	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:35.663	+1.175	73 m	+0.139	24
7	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:35.696	+1.208	75 m	+0.033	19
8	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:36.196	+1.708	106 m	+0.500	21
9	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:36.274	+1.786	111 m	+0.078	18
10	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	36	1:36.712	+2.224	138 m	+0.438	22
11	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:36.816	+2.328	144 m	+0.104	23
12	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:36.944	+2.456	152 m	+0.128	25
13	Lando Norris	McLaren	47	1:37.022	+2.534	157 m	+0.078	25
14	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:37.054	+2.566	159 m	+0.032	24
15	Artem Markelov (never started a Grand Prix)	Renault	46	1:37.183	+2.695	167 m	+0.129	22
16	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:37.187	+2.699	167 m	+0.004	27
17	Nicholas Latifi	Force India	34	1:37.206	+2.718	168 m	+0.019	24
18	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:37.225	+2.737	169 m	+0.019	25
19	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:37.944	+3.456	214 m	+0.719	28
20	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:39.137	+4.649	288 m	+1.193	13

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:33.385	—	0 m	—	35
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:33.584	+0.199	12 m	+0.199	33
3	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:33.827	+0.442	28 m	+0.243	32
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:33.844	+0.459	29 m	+0.017	37
5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:33.928	+0.543	34 m	+0.084	33
6	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:34.388	+1.003	63 m	+0.460	31
7	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:35.122	+1.737	109 m	+0.734	30
8	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:35.137	+1.752	110 m	+0.015	28
9	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:35.147	+1.762	110 m	+0.010	33
10	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:35.295	+1.910	120 m	+0.148	35
11	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:35.331	+1.946	122 m	+0.036	33
12	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:35.341	+1.956	122 m	+0.010	37
13	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:35.432	+2.047	128 m	+0.091	32
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:35.568	+2.183	137 m	+0.136	35
15	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:35.911	+2.526	158 m	+0.343	35
16	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:36.024	+2.639	165 m	+0.113	29
17	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:36.074	+2.689	168 m	+0.050	34
18	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:36.617	+3.232	202 m	+0.543	31
19	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:36.861	+3.476	218 m	+0.244	39
20	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:37.001	+3.616	226 m	+0.140	35

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:33.067	—	0 m	—	13
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:33.321	+0.254	16 m	+0.254	16
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	5	1:33.667	+0.600	38 m	+0.346	14
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	7	1:33.688	+0.621	39 m	+0.021	11
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:33.937	+0.870	55 m	+0.249	11
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	3	1:34.394	+1.327	83 m	+0.457	14
7	Charles Leclerc	Sauber	16	1:34.628	+1.561	98 m	+0.234	15
8	Esteban Ocon	Force India	31	1:34.809	+1.742	109 m	+0.181	16
9	Kevin Magnussen	Haas F1 Team	20	1:34.820	+1.753	110 m	+0.011	15
10	Sergio Perez	Force India	11	1:34.916	+1.849	116 m	+0.096	14
11	Carlos Sainz	Renault	55	1:34.988	+1.921	121 m	+0.072	13
12	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso	10	1:35.125	+2.058	129 m	+0.137	21
13	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	8	1:35.185	+2.118	133 m	+0.060	18
14	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	27	1:35.213	+2.146	135 m	+0.028	12
15	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber	9	1:35.370	+2.303	145 m	+0.157	16
16	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso	28	1:36.033	+2.966	186 m	+0.663	22
17	Sergey Sirotkin	Williams	35	1:36.071	+3.004	189 m	+0.038	16
18	Lance Stroll	Williams	18	1:36.274	+3.207	202 m	+0.203	20
19	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren	2	1:36.597	+3.530	222 m	+0.323	14
20	Fernando Alonso	McLaren	14	1:36.992	+3.925	247 m	+0.395	21

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

3 more photographs

Where this comes from

Round: 16 of 2018
Grand Prix: Russian Grand Prix
Dates: 30 Sep 2018
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.