Nico Rosberg comfortably won his home German GP
for the first time to re-extend his World Championship lead as a
thrilling recovery drive from Lewis Hamilton delivered a vital podium
finish – but just fell agonisingly short of second place.
Just
like qualifying, Sunday at Hockenheim proved a day of contrasts for
Mercedes’ title-duelling drivers. However, unlike on Saturday, when
Hamilton crashed in Q1 to deepen his recent qualy gloom, the final
results were not quite so sharply contrasting. While Rosberg serenely streaked away from pole position and was rarely seen – let alone troubled – thereafter to record his fourth win of 2014, Hamilton spent all the 67 laps in full-out attack mode as he surged through the field towards the podium.
Starting 20th after an overnight gearbox change, the Briton’s stunningly-fast W05 just about survived separate incidents of contact with three drivers – Adrian Sutil, Kimi Raikkonen, and most significantly of all when he damaged his front-wing, former team-mate Jenson Button – amid a succession of passing moves at the circuit’s inviting hairpin.
Running a long opening stint on the more durable soft tyres, Hamilton was up to second by lap 16 and although a late switch from a two to three-stop strategy following his Button clash appeared to increase his workload, the Briton flew once more during the course of two shorter final stints on the supersoft rubber.
Like the dominant Rosberg - who won by 20 seconds despite apparently cruising for more than half the race - Williams' in-form Valtteri Bottas also made just two visits to the pits but when the Finn was being caught hand over fist by Hamilton into the closing laps another Mercedes one-two appeared inevitable.
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