{"id":4123,"date":"2019-07-29T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T09:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2019-07-30T06:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T06:52:39","slug":"max-verstappen-wins-crazy-german-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/max-verstappen-wins-crazy-german-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen wins crazy German Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen wins crazy German Grand Prix littered with crashes and safety car periods with Mercedes&#8217; Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton failing to score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an extraordinary\nrace of constantly changing fortunes, multiple pitstops and endless drama,\nFerrari&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel started from last place and finished second in front\nof his home crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian Daniil\nKvyat, who became a father on Saturday, was an astonishing third to hand Red\nBull&#8217;s sister team Toro Rosso their second ever podium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing\nrace to win in the end, it was really tricky out there to make the right calls,\nand we really had to be focused,\u201d said Verstappen, who took the chequered flag\n7.333 seconds ahead of Vettel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The race was\nshortened by three laps after the safety car had led the field away before a\nstanding start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamilton&#8217;s closest\nrival and team mate Valtteri Bottas, who had also led briefly, crashed out with\nsix laps remaining to leave the gap between the two unchanged at 39 points\nafter 11 of 21 races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mercedes,\nempty-handed in their 200th start and in what looks likely to be the last\nGerman Grand Prix for some time given the race&#8217;s uncertain future, had won nine\nof the previous 10 races.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verstappen, the\nonly man to beat them, made five pitstops on his way to his second win of the\nseason and also spun 360 degrees in the middle of the race. There were four\nsafety car periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a long\nrace, at some stages it felt like it would never end and it was very tough with\nthe conditions and I&#8217;m just happy. It was a lot of fun,\u201d said Vettel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamilton, who had\nstarted on pole position with Dutch youngster Verstappen alongside on the front\nrow, was lucky to end up 11th of 14 finishers after spinning into the barriers\nand smashing his front wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Briton, who\ncaught Mercedes by surprise when he pitted, also had to serve a five-second\ntime penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferrari&#8217;s Charles\nLeclerc was less fortunate, crashing on lap 29 while in second place and\nlooking likely to take the lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canadian Lance\nStroll was fourth for Racing Point with Spaniard Carlos Sainz fifth for\nMcLaren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thai driver Alexander Albon gave Toro Rosso more points in sixth place with Kimi Raikkonen seventh and Alfa Romeo team mate Antonio Giovinazzi eighth. The two Haas cars of Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen completed the scoring places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About German Grand Prix 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 2019 German\nGrand Prix was a Formula One motor race which was held on 28 July 2019 at the\nHockenheimring in Germany. The race was the eleventh race of the 2019 Formula\nOne World Championship. Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 28 July 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Hockenheimring, Hockenheim, Germany<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull&#8217;s Max Verstappen wins crazy German Grand Prix littered with crashes and safety car periods with Mercedes&#8217; Formula One leader Lewis Hamilton failing to score. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 In an extraordinary race of constantly changing fortunes, multiple pitstops and endless drama, Ferrari&#8217;s Sebastian Vettel started from last place and finished second in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[282,59],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-4123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-crazy-german-grand-prix","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4123\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4123"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=4123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}