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MOTORCYCLING | Page 2 CCRICKETRICKET | Page 7 Maverick Consolation talent wins victory for To Advertise here maiden Pakistan in Call: 444 11 300, 444 66 621 MotoGP fi ft h ODI Monday, September 5, 2016 FOOTBALL Dhul-Hijja 3, 1437 AH Lallana late show GULF TIMES gives Big Sam winning start SPORT Page 3 QATAR CHAMPS IN GCC BASKETBALL The Qatar basketball team celebrate their win in the GCC Championship which concluded in Sharjah yesterday. Qatar defeated Saudi Arabia 66-61 to retain their title. At right Qatar Basketball Federation president Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani poses with the winning trophies. FORMULA ONE FOOTBALL Coach Carreno seeks crowd support Rosberg reigns for Uzbekistan match By Sports Reporter Doha supreme in Italy oach Jose Daniel Carreno has urged football fans to turn The 31-year-old German took the lead at the start when Hamilton became out in large numbers when CQatar take on Uzbekistan in their World Cup qualifying clash to- bogged down, and pulled away to control the race and finish 15 seconds clear morrow at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium. Qatar crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Iran in their fi rst Group A match last AFP Thursday and need to get their cam- Monza, Italy paign back on track by securing three points in tomorrow’s home game. The Uruguayan, who saw his team ico Rosberg pounced on a concede two injury-time goals in front poor start by his Mercedes of a 100,000-strong partisan crowd at teammate Lewis Hamilton Tehran’s imposing Azadi Stadium, is Nto win yesterday’s Italian keen to make the most out of Qatar’s Grand Prix at Monza and cut his cham- home advantage, a major portion of pionship lead to just two points. which comes from the support of the head record against Qatar, winning six The 31-year-old German took the home fans. of the 11 matches they have played so lead at the start, when pole-sitter “I want the supporters to turn out far. Of the 11 games, Qatar have won Hamilton became bogged down, and in large numbers and support the na- only three while two were drawn. pulled away to control the race and fi n- tional side,” said the former Al Arabi Of the last fi ve matches between the ish 15 seconds clear of the defending coach. two countries, Uzbekistan have won three-time champion. Although the capacity of the Jassim four, including a 5-1 drubbing in June Hamilton, who eff ectively lost the bin Hamad Stadium is less than a quar- 2013 in a qualifi er for the 2014 World race in the fi rst 20 metres when the ter of the 128,000 spectators Tehran’s Cup in Brazil. lights went out, now leads the title bat- Azadi Stadium can hold, the coach But under Carreno, Qatar have made tle with 250 points ahead of Rosberg on cheering supporters can defi nitely spur rapid progress, with the players gel- 248. Sebastian Vettel came home third, the team. ling as a team and also showing better 5.9 seconds further adrift, ahead of his “Fans can lift the morale of the side,” physical fi tness. Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen to added the Uruguayan. “We have urged the players to forget the delight of the home fans. Carreno stressed that the players are past results and look forward to the It was Rosberg’s fi rst Italian win, in good spirits defeat the defeat against challenging match ahead of us against his seventh of the season and 21st of Iran. They fact that they dominated the Uzbekistan,” adding that he didn’t his career, boosting his championship match against Iran has led the players have any injury worries ahead of the to believe they can get the better of Uz- match. bekistan tomorrow. Like Qatar, Uzbekistan, too have Results (Top 10) Uzbekistan have a better head-to- never qualifi ed for the World Cup. Race Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team’s German driver Nico Rosberg cheers with his team after winning the Italian Formula 1. Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) 1hr One Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale circuit in Monza yesterday. See also Page 2 17min 28.089sec, 2. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) at 15.070sec, 3. Sebas- challenge with seven races remaining. cooler when the lights went out with Hamilton scrapped to pass Bottas for tian Vettel (GER/Ferrari) 20.990, 4. Kimi “Thank you very much guys,” said an air temperature of 29 degrees and fourth. After 10 laps, Rosberg led Vet- Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) 27.561, 5. Daniel Rosberg. “It’s great to win Italy.” the track at 38 in the old royal park, tel by 4.4 and Hamilton, who eventu- Ricciardo (AUS/Red Bull) 45.295, 6. Valt- It was also the 50th podium fi nish of some 20km north of Milan. ally surged past the Finn on the main teri Bottas (FIN/Williams) 51.015, 7. Max Rosberg’s career and prevented Ham- Hamilton’s initial reaction saw him straight, by 11 seconds. Verstappen (NED/Red Bull) 54.236, 8. ilton completing a cherished hat-trick depart cleanly only to lose momentum “The rears are pretty wasted al- Sergio Perez (MEX/Force India) 1:04.954, of Italian wins, to equal a feat achieved as Vettel, from third, passed him and ready,” Hamilton told the team as he 9. Felipe Massa (BRA/Williams) 1:05.617, only once before by Juan Manuel Fan- Rosberg took the lead. The champion, fell a further second adrift before being 10. Nico Hülkenberg (GER/Force India) gio in the 1950’s, and register his 50th as if glued to the asphalt, fell to sixth. instructed to push harder before the Drivers’ Standings career victory. It was the fi rst time in Hamilton clawed a place back on lap fi rst pit-stops began. 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) 250 pts, 2. Nico seven years that the race was not won two when Jolyon Palmer in a Renault The Ferraris were soon in, both for Rosberg (GER) 248, 3. Daniel Ricciardo by the driver starting from pole posi- collided at the fi rst chicane with Felipe more super-softs, indicating that the (AUS) 161, 4. Sebastian Vettel (GER) 143, tion. Nasr’s Sauber, the Brazilian spinning, scuderia were adopting a two-stop 5. Kimi Räikkönen (FIN) 136, 6. Max “Good job!” grimaced Hamilton as before soon retiring only to re-join, strategy while Mercedes, with Hamil- Verstappen (NED) 121, 7. Valtteri Bottas he shook hands with Rosberg after- and the Briton losing his car’s front ton inheriting second place 15 seconds (FIN) 70, 8. Sergio Pérez (MEX) 62, 9. wards. Daniel Ricciardo fi nished fi fth wing, before his retirement. Nasr was behind Rosberg, sticking to ‘Plan A’. Nico Hülkenberg (GER) 46, 10. Felipe for Red Bull ahead of Valtteri Bot- given a 10-seconds penalty. By lap 20, Hamilton had cut the gap to Massa (BRA) 41 tas of Williams, Dutch teenager Max For Hamilton, running on soft tyres, 13.4s, reporting that his “tyres are fi ne” as Constructors’ Standings Verstappen who was seventh in the the race became a strategy exercise. he continued his pursuit of the German. 1. Mercedes 498 pts, 2. Red Bull 290, second Red Bull, Sergio Perez of Force “Remember, Lewis, the three cars After 24 laps, Rosberg pitted from 3. Ferrari 279, 4. Williams 111, 5. Force India, retirement-bound Felipe Massa ahead are on super-soft tyres so they’ll the lead for mediums. A ‘slow’ 3.9s India 108, 6. McLaren-Honda 48, 7. Toro in the second Williams and German be quick for a few laps and then they stop saw him emerge second behind Rosso 45, 8. Haas 28, 9. Renault 6, 10. Nico Hulkenberg in the second Force will degrade,” he was told. Hamilton — leading for the fi rst time Manor 1 India. After three days of searing late- At the front, Rosberg was pulling — until the Briton pitted and rejoined Qatar coach Jose Daniel Carreno (top) watches as Qatar stars Sebastian Soria, summer heat, conditions were slightly clear with a run of fastest laps while behind the two Ferraris. Rodrigo Tabata and others train ahead of their match against Uzbekistan. Gulf Times 2 Monday, September 5, 2016 SPORT MOTORCYCLING SPOTLIGHT Maverick talent Hamilton in a spin aft er wins maiden poor start Reuters too great for Hamilton to close Monza and keep life in the tyres. “Nico drove a great race... and did what he had to do. Once you ewis Hamilton’s dreams are out front here it is relatively of winning the Italian plain and simple... all he had to MotoGP in style Grand Prix for the third do was match some of my times Lyear in a row, and chalk- and he was sorted,” said Hamil- Vinales led home Honda’s Cal Crutchlow — the first Briton since Barry Sheene in 1977 ing up his 50th Formula One race ton. victory, went out with the start “It’s like less than a 10th of a to take pole — with legendary Italian Valentino Rossi third on his Yamaha lights yesterday. second (at the start) decided the In a split second the triple race and that is tough for every- world champion went from one.” AFP pole position to chaser, a slow The rules governing the start Silverstone, UK getaway leaving him sixth as were changed last year, reducing Mercedes teammate Nico Ros- the amount of information driv- berg disappeared into the dis- ers have to help with clutch set- paniard Maverick Vinales rode a tance.

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