French grand prix
Quartararo eyes up first home win at French MotoGP
After a slow start to the season, world champion Fabio Quartararo has blasted his way to the top of the standings and is in line to notch up his first ever home...
The Red Bull driver hunted down and overtook the Mercedes world champion with over a lap to go in Le Castellet to claim his third win out of seven races this season.
Verstappen leads Hamilton by just four points in the Formula One word championship ahead of the seventh race of the season at the Circuit Paul Ricard on Sunday.
The seven-time champion and the defending champion team were well beaten in both Monte Carlo and Baku, losing their long consecutive points-scoring records of 54 and 55 races respectively as Red Bull took command with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez claiming victories.
The defending five-time champion repeated his pole-to-flag triumph of 2018 with a flawless drive to his fourth win in succession, sixth this season and 79th of his career.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc qualified third with team mate Sebastian Vettel a distant seventh on a distinctly off day for the German.
Lewis Hamilton, who had started on pole position, now leads Sebastian Vettel by 14 points after eight of 21 races.
Germany’s Vettel was a point clear of Bottas’s team mate Lewis Hamilton going into the first French race in a decade.
Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas, who had gone top moments earlier, had to settle for second, just 0.118 of a second slower.