TIMELINE OF A WACKY RACE
LAP 1
Lewis Hamilton makes a clean getaway from pole position, but contact between Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen behind him allows Sebastian Vettel to take second.
LAP 12
The safety car is deployed to remove Daniil Kvyat’s stricken Toro Rosso. Hamilton and Vettel take the chance to pit for fresh tyres.
LAP 16
The safety car comes in. Hamilton leaves Vettel in his wake at the restart and the German just about holds off Sergio Perez at turn one.
LAP 17
The safety car is deployed again to remove debris that flew off Raikkonen’s car at the restart.
LAP 19
Safety car in. Hamilton slows at the final corner to prepare for the restart and Vettel runs into the back of him. The German pulls alongside, gesticulates at Hamilton and drives into his Mercedes.
LAP 20
Force Indias of Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon collide at turn two, bringing the safety car out for a third time. Raikkonen picks up a puncture from the debris.
LAP 22
With debris littering the track, the race is red-flagged and the drivers return to the pit-lane for 23 minutes.
LAP 31
Hamilton is forced to pit on safety grounds with his headrest coming loose. He is stationary for 9.3sec and returns in ninth.
LAP 33
Vettel, holding a 27sec lead over Hamilton, has to serve a 10sec stop-go penalty for his earlier dangerous driving but re-emerges ahead of his rival in seventh.
LAP 47
Hamilton asks Mercedes to use team-mate Bottas to block Vettel back into him, but the request is rejected with the Finn hunting down Lance Stroll in second place.
LAP 51
Bottas pips Stroll on the line. Vettel holds off Hamilton, who finishes 0.2sec behind.
PSAT
18 years 239 days, Lance Stroll is the second-youngest driver to finish on the podium in a grand prix. Max Verstappen was just 11 days younger when he won last year’s Spanish Grand Prix.