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marzo 31, 2021 - Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport

Tales from the paddock: Spectacular season opener under floodlights

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While the Mercedes-AMG Customer #racing Teams in the NLS will now have to wait a little longer for their season to start, the 2021 #f1 campaign got underway with a veritable floodlit spectacular in #bahrain.

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This is what happened: Results and facts

  • F1: Lewis Hamilton wins season opener in #bahrain; #valtteribottas joins him on the podium in P3
  • 24H Series: Impressive recovery by the #85 Mercedes-AMG GT3 at Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello

News snippets

Facts & figures from #bahrain: The 72nd #f1 season got underway last weekend with a spectacular curtain-raiser in #bahrain. A duel to the finish line culminated in reigning world champion #lewishamilton securing his fourth consecutive victory at the #bahrain International Circuit and his fifth overall. Lewis now ranks as the most successful contestant in the #bahrain Grand Prix. In the course of a thrilling race, with Max Verstappen in the Red Bull giving him a hard time right through to the chequered flag, Lewis set another record in terms of lead laps. His tally of 5,126 takes him past previous record holder Michael Schumacher’s 5,111. #valtteribottas finished his 80th Grand Prix for the Mercedes factory team in third place, which was enough for Mercedes to take over at the top of the all-time leaderboard for podiums in the #bahrain GP, with 15 to their account.

Fight-back in the 12H #mugello: Customer #racing team CP #racing put in a consistently strong performance in the 12-hour race at the #mugello Circuit, which constituted the second round of this year’s #24hseries. The number 85 car, one of three Mercedes-AMG GT3s on the grid, mounted an impressive charge through the field. Having qualified in P10, the driver quartet of #charlesespenlaub, #joefoster, #shanelewis and #charlesputman (all USA) worked their way up into the Top Five overall before eventually having to settle for seventh place at the end of the 328-lap distance. The number 58 car of MP #racing finished eleventh, while Zakspeed were disappointingly obliged to park their car after only 49 laps.

NLS season opener cancelled: The Mercedes-AMG Customer #racing teams will now have to wait until 17 April for their first competitive outing in the Nürburgring #endurance Series, after round one of the series was cancelled due to inclement weather. When the five Mercedes-AMG GT3s and three Mercedes-AMG GT4s put in their first laps on the Nordschleife during last Friday’s test sessions, the weather looked promising. However, the onset of snowfall in the Eifel region put a stop to qualifying on Saturday morning. When it started snowing again later, the stewards decided that the track conditions were not safe enough on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife for the race to proceed.

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