GPI 2017 Russian Grand Prix | Page 94

RACE REPORT Race leader Bottas was the first of the front runners to pit, on lap 27, with the Finn taking on supersoft tyres. Räikkönen, complaining that his rears were gone, was the next in on lap 29, joined by Verstappen, while Hamilton made his stop for the red-banded Pirellis on lap 30. Vettel, though, soldiered on, posting great lap times on the aging Pirelli tyres and on lap 32, the German’s race engineer Ricardo Adami, radioed through to tell