Having been well and truly
outgunned in qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix by team mate Valtteri
Bottas, Lewis Hamilton hit back in emphatic style on race day to claim his
third win of the season, as Mercedes stretched their current record of
consecutive one-two finishes to an incredible five.
After beating Bottas to the first
corner, Hamilton then led the race throughout, to net his third Spanish Grand
Prix win in a row. The Mercedes duo were joined on an identical podium to 2018
by the Red Bull of Max Verstappen, with the Ferrari pair of Sebastian Vettel
and Charles Leclerc fourth and fifth, Verstappen maintaining his record of
having finished ahead of at least one Ferrari at every race this season.
Pierre Gasly was P6 in the second
Red Bull, while a late-race Safety Car – after McLaren's Lando Norris and
Racing Point's Lance Stroll clashed in the first corner sequence – set up a
dramatic finish behind, with Kevin Magnussen eventually claiming a fine seventh
place and his first points since Australia.
Haas team
mate Romain Grosjean claimed his first point of the year by finishing P10,
despite dropping from P8 in a dramatic final few laps after being passed by the
McLaren of Carlos Sainz – who maintained his record of scoring at every Spanish
Grand Prix of his career – and the Toro Rosso of Daniil Kvyat, who finished P9.
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