A review of the Spanish GP by Pedro Cunha
One of the attractions of the Spanish race in Barcelona was to know how Verstappen will manage with his promotion to Red Bull and how Kvyat will perform after being relegated to Toro Rosso.
Another pole for Hamilton, as Verstappen was 4th (behind his team mate Ricciardo), while Kvyat was 13th (his colleague Sainz was 8th).
As for the race Rosberg wanted to achieve some nice statistics: to be the 3rd driver to win the first five races of the season as Mansell did in 1992 and Schumacher in 2004, and also claiming 8 wins in a row (just one ahead of Vettel in 2013), but soon he realized it wasn’t Mercedes day. On lap 1 both Mercedes were involved in an accident and both dropped out, causing the safety car to come on track.
Without the “Silver arrows” on the track the battle would be between Red Bull and Ferrari and after a brilliant race, Max Verstappen at just 18 years and 227 days old, became the youngest winner ever, the youngest ever to reach the podium and the 1st Dutch driver to win an F1 race, while Red Bull made a return to winning (the last win was in 2014 in Belgium).
Räikkönen was 2nd (only 0.616 seconds behind the Dutch driver), Vettel 3rd, Ricciardo 4th, after a puncture on the penultimate lap, while he was fighting for 3rd place with Vettel.
The Williams drivers scored once more (Bottas in 5th and 8th place for Massa), while Toro Rosso returned to the points (Sainz was 6th and Kvyat was 10th).
The remaining points for Force India Pérez was 7th and the McLaren of Button was 9th. Button is on his 17th consecutive season always scoring.
After a memorable day for Verstappen, and an awful day for Mercedes, F1 will return in 15 days to the legendary Monaco GP.
Standings:
Drivers: Rosberg (100), Räikkönen (61), Hamilton (57), Vettel and Ricciardo (48)
Costructors: Mercedes (157), Ferrari (109), Red Bull (94), Williams (65), Toro Rosso (26)
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