FORMULA 1
The racing settled for a while as the cars tried to manage their new hard tyres ( the whole field swapped from soft to hard tyres.)
Albon also started to suffer with an over heating Mercedes engine but managed it beautifully through the race.
Lap 31 Leclerc started to make a meaningful dent in his gap to Russell, getting to within just over a second almost able to use the DRS as Russell bailed into the pits to swap for another set of the Hard compound tyre.
After closing on the back of Leclerc, Norris pit on lap 35 in an attempt to under cut the Ferrari who stopped on the next lap with Norris' team mate Piastri who thanks to a slow stop fell behind Lewis Hamilton(pit lap 5 with Norris) meaning after all the 2nd stops were complete Piastri was now down in 8th.
Albon also started to suffer with an over heating Mercedes engine but managed it beautifully through the race.
Lap 31 Leclerc started to make a meaningful dent in his gap to Russell, getting to within just over a second almost able to use the DRS as Russell bailed into the pits to swap for another set of the Hard compound tyre.
After closing on the back of Leclerc, Norris pit on lap 35 in an attempt to under cut the Ferrari who stopped on the next lap with Norris' team mate Piastri who thanks to a slow stop fell behind Lewis Hamilton(pit lap 5 with Norris) meaning after all the 2nd stops were complete Piastri was now down in 8th.