At the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Hamilton took pole from Pérez and Verstappen. Verstappen went into the lead at turn 1 on lap 1, after it started raining on race day. Mazepin and Nicholas Latifi crashed at the exit of turn 13, while moments later Schumacher lost his front wing at the pit exit. Hamilton made a mistake at turn 7 on lap 31, but was able to rejoin. The moment he did, his teammate Bottas and George Russell had a crash at over on the start-finish straight, bringing out the red flag. Norris overtook Charles Leclerc for third immediately after the race restarted. Verstappen won the race, and Hamilton recovered to second after his mistake, with Norris rounding out the podium.