2018 Spanish Grand Prix

 2018 Spanish Grand Prix

Racing data
5th of 21 races of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Emirates 2018
Date:	May 13, 2018
Place:	Montmeló
Course:	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Length:	307.104 km in 66 laps of 4.655 km
Pole position
Driver:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time:	1: 16.173 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Time:	1: 18.441 min (lap 61)
Podium
First:	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second:	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Third:	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer

The 2018 Spanish Grand Prix (officially Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Emirates 2018 ) took place on May 13th on the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló and was the fifth race of the 2018 Formula 1 World Championship .

report

backgrounds

After the Azerbaijan Grand Prix , Lewis Hamilton led the drivers' standings with four points ahead of Sebastian Vettel and with 22 points ahead of Kimi Raikkonen . In the constructors' championship, Ferrari was four points ahead of Mercedes and 59 points ahead of Red Bull Racing .

At the Spanish Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Medium (white), P Zero Soft (yellow), P Zero Supersoft (red), as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

The track was re-asphalted after the last race.

There was a change to one of the two DRS zones compared to the previous year, the change made after 2016 has been reversed. The measuring point for the first zone was 86 meters in front of the Campsa , the zone began 40 meters after the curve. The measuring point for the second DRS zone, which was on the start-finish straight , was the safety car line, the DRS was then allowed to be activated 157 meters after the New Holland .

Marcus Ericsson , Kevin Magnussen (seven each), Sergio Pérez , Max Verstappen (five each), Brendon Hartley , Stoffel Vandoorne (four each), Romain Grosjean , Räikkönen, Vettel (three each), Pierre Gasly , Nico Hülkenberg , Daniel Ricciardo , Carlos Sainz Jr. , Sergei Sirotkin (two each) and Lance Stroll (one) went into the race weekend with penalty points.

With Raikkonen, Fernando Alonso , Hamilton (twice each), Vettel and Verstappen (once each), five former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

Race stewards were Sergei David Domingo (ESP), Tim Mayer (USA), Andrew Mallalieu (BAR) and Derek Warwick (GBR).

free training

In the first free practice session, Valtteri Bottas set the fastest time with a lap time of 1: 18.148 minutes ahead of Hamilton and Vettel. Robert Kubica competed for the first time since the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix training for a Grand Prix, replacing Sirotkin at Williams for this session .

In the second free practice session, Hamilton was fastest in 1: 18.259 minutes ahead of Ricciardo and Verstappen.

In the third free practice session, Hamilton was again fastest, this time in 1: 17.281 minutes. Bottas was second, Vettel third. The training was canceled a few minutes before the end after an accident by Brendon Hartley .

Qualifying

The qualifying consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 15 drivers reached the next part. Vettel was fastest. Hartley was unable to participate in qualifying after his accident and did not qualify for the Grand Prix. Besides him, the Williams drivers, Ericsson and Hulkenberg retired.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. The Ferrari, Mercedes, Red Bull and Haas drivers drove their fastest lap on the soft mix, all others on supersoft . Vettel was again fastest. The Force India drivers, Charles Leclerc , Gasly and Vandoorne were eliminated.

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. Hamilton set the best time with a lap time of 1: 16.173 minutes ahead of Bottas and Vettel. It was Hamilton's 74th pole position in the Formula 1 World Championship and the fastest lap time ever on this track.

Sirotkin was moved three places back after causing a collision during the race in Azerbaijan.

run

The race lasted 66 laps.

Hamilton stayed in the lead at the start, Vettel passed Bottas on the outside when braking into the first corner. Magnussen made a driving error in the third corner, so that Grosjean, who was immediately behind him, lost control of his vehicle and spun while trying to avoid a collision. Grosjean tried to intercept the vehicle at full throttle and turn it in the right direction. Because of the smoke caused by the spinning rear tires, the pilots behind them were unable to see, and the Haas drove across the track. Hulkenberg and Gasly did not manage to evade, both retired with broken suspension. The race was over for Grosjean too. He was penalized with a three places on the grid in the following race, and he received two penalty points.

The race management sent the safety car out onto the track to rescue the vehicles . Hamilton led ahead of Vettel, Bottas, Raikkonen, Verstappen, Ricciardo, Magnussen, Sainz, Leclerc and Ocon.

The race was reopened on the sixth lap. Vandoorne received a five-second time penalty for having left the track on the first lap and driving back in an unsafe manner. Hamilton took the lead, Vettel drove just ahead of Bottas. There were no fights or changes of position behind this either.

On the 17th lap, Vettel was the first pilot from the leading group to pit and switched to the medium mix. Two laps later, Bottas also switched to Medium and came back on the track immediately behind Vettel and Magnussen. On lap 25, Raikkonen suddenly slowed down, pitted and gave up the race. At the end of the lap, Hamilton also switched to medium , coming back around two seconds behind Verstappen. Ocon switched to medium on lap 29 , falling back to the bottom of the field due to a problem with the attachment of the left rear tire. On laps 32 to 34, Magnussen, Ricciardo and Verstappen switched to Medium one after the other , so that all the drivers from the leading group had made one pit stop.

On the 41st lap, Ocon parked his vehicle on the edge of the track. The race management called a virtual safety car phase so that the vehicle could be recovered. Vettel used this to switch to medium again . Since there was a problem changing tires, he not only fell behind Bottas, but also behind Verstappen. Shortly afterwards, Verstappen hit the Williams von Stroll, who was about to be lapped, and damaged his front wing. However, he did not pit, but ended the race with the damaged vehicle.

The race was reopened on lap 43. Shortly afterwards, Alonso passed Leclerc and was now eighth. Vettel was unable to take advantage of his fresh tires and put Verstappen under pressure despite the damage to his vehicle. On the 47th lap, Vandoorne rolled out and parked his vehicle on the edge of the track. It was the first McLaren retirement of the season. Pérez overtook Leclerc on lap 59.

Hamilton won the race ahead of Bottas and Verstappen. It was the 64th victory for Hamilton in the Formula 1 World Championship, including the second of the season. It was also the 41st victory that Hamilton achieved from pole position, making him the sole record holder. Bottas achieved his third podium finish of the season, finishing second three times. Verstappen stood on the podium for the first time since his victory at the 2017 Mexican Grand Prix . The remaining points were placed by Vettel, Ricciardo, Magnussen, Sainz, Alonso, Pérez and Leclerc.

Hamilton increased his lead over Vettel in the overall standings, Bottas was now third. In the constructors' championship, Mercedes took the lead from Ferrari and Red Bull Racing.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes-AMG F1 W09 EQ Power +	Mercedes-AMG F1 M09 EQ Power +	P
	77	Valtteri Bottas
Scuderia Ferrari	05	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari SF71H	Ferrari 062 EVO	P
	07th	Kimi Raikkonen
Aston Martin Red Bull Racing	03	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing RB14	Day, this year	P
	33	Max Verstappen
Sahara Force India F1 Team	11	Sergio Perez	Force India VJM11	Mercedes-AMG F1 M09 EQ Power +	P
	31	Esteban Ocon
Williams Martini Racing	18th	Lance Stroll	Williams FW41	Mercedes-AMG F1 M09 EQ Power +	P
	35	Sergei Sirotkin
	40	Robert Kubica
Renault Sport F1 Team	27	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault RS18	Renault RE18	P
	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.
Red Bull Toro Rosso Honda	28	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso STR13	Honda RA618H	P
	10	Pierre Gasly
Haas F1 team	08th	Romain Grosjean	Haas VF-18	Ferrari 062 EVO	P
	20th	Kevin Magnussen
McLaren F1 Team	14th	Fernando Alonso	McLaren MCL33	Renault RE18	P
	02	Stoffel Vandoorne
Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team	09	Marcus Ericsson	Clean C37	Ferrari 062 EVO	P
	16	Charles Leclerc

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Williams with the starting number 40 was used in the first free practice for Kubica. Sirotkin then took over the vehicle with its number 35 for the rest of the race weekend.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1: 17.633	1: 17.166	1: 16.173	01
02	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1: 17.674	1: 17.111	1: 16.213	02
03	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1: 17.031	1: 16.802	1: 16.305	03
04th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1: 17.483	1: 17.071	1: 16.612	04th
05	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1: 17.411	1: 17.266	1: 16.816	05
06th	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1: 17.623	1: 17.638	1: 16.818	06th
07th	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1: 18.169	1: 17.618	1: 17.676	07th
08th	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Renault	1: 18.276	1: 18,100	1: 17.721	08th
09	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Renault	1: 18.480	1: 18.310	1: 17.790	09
10	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1: 18.305	1: 17.699	1: 17.835	10
11	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Renault	1: 18.885	1: 18.347	-	11
12	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	1: 18.813	1: 18.696	-	12
13	Charles Leclerc	Clean Ferrari	1: 18.661	1: 18.910	-	13
14th	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	1: 18.740	1: 19.163	-	14th
15th	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1: 18.550	1: 19.306	-	15th
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	1: 18.923	-	-	16
17th	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	1: 19.493	-	-	17th
18th	Sergei Sirotkin	Williams-Mercedes	1: 19.695	-	-	19th
19th	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	1: 20.225	-	-	18th
107 percent time : 1: 22.423 min (based on the Q1 best time of 1: 17.031 min)
20th	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	no time	-	-	20th

Remarks

1. ↑ Sirotkin was moved three places back after causing a collision at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
2. ↑ Hartley was allowed to start because he drove fast enough in free practice.

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	Stops	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	66	1	1: 35: 29.972	01	1: 19,133 (64th)
02	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	66	1	+ 20.593	02	1: 19.478 (56th)
03	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	66	1	+ 26.873	05	1: 19.422 (62nd)
04th	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	66	2	+ 27.584	03	1: 19,128 (61.)
05	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	66	1	+ 50.058	06th	1: 18.441 (61.)
06th	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	65	1	+ 1 lap	07th	1: 20.246 (64th)
07th	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Renault	65	1	+ 1 lap	09	1: 21,324 (61.)
08th	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Renault	65	1	+ 1 lap	08th	1: 20.727 (64th)
09	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	64	2	+ 2 rounds	15th	1: 21,128 (43.)
10	Charles Leclerc	Clean Ferrari	64	1	+ 2 rounds	14th	1: 22,122 (51.)
11	Lance Stroll	Williams-Mercedes	64	1	+ 2 rounds	18th	1: 22.095 (60th)
12	Brendon Hartley	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	64	2	+ 2 rounds	20th	1: 21,439 (63rd)
13	Marcus Ericsson	Clean Ferrari	64	1	+ 2 rounds	17th	1: 22.487 (50th)
14th	Sergei Sirotkin	Williams-Mercedes	63	3	+ 3 rounds	19th	1: 22.680 (57.)
-	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren-Renault	45	1	DNF	11	1: 22.594 (38th)
-	Esteban Ocon	Force India-Mercedes	38	1	DNF	13	1: 22,117 (36.)
-	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	25th	0	DNF	04th	1: 21.531 (23.)
-	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	0	0	DNF	10	-
-	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	0	0	DNF	12	-
-	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	0	0	DNF	16	-

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 95 02  Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 78 03  Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 58 04th  Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 48 05  Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 47 06th  Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 33 07th  Fernando Alonso McLaren-Renault 32 08th  Nico Hulkenberg Renault 22nd 09  Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 19th 10  Carlos Sainz Jr. Renault 19th

Item driver constructor Points 11  Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 17th 12  Pierre Gasly Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 12 13  Charles Leclerc Clean Ferrari 9 14th  Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren-Renault 8th 15th  Lance Stroll Williams-Mercedes 4th 16  Marcus Ericsson Clean Ferrari 2 17th  Esteban Ocon Force India-Mercedes 1 18th  Brendon Hartley Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 1 19th  Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 0 20th  Sergei Sirotkin Williams-Mercedes 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 1  Mercedes 153 2  Ferrari 126 3  Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer 80 4th  Renault 41 5  McLaren-Renault 40

Item constructor Points 06th  Haas-Ferrari 19th 07th  Force India-Mercedes 18th 08th  Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda 13 09  Clean Ferrari 11 10  Williams-Mercedes 4th

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spanish Grand Prix 2018 in Barcelona - result of 3rd free practice. Motorsport-Total.com, May 12, 2018, accessed May 12, 2018 .