2020 F1 Spanish Grand Prix race results

Hamilton led from pole, with Verstappen immediately moving up to second, with Lance Stroll barging past the slow-starting Valtteri Bottas at Turn 1, as the Finn’s Mercedes fell from second to fourth – just holding off the second Racing Point of Sergio Perez at Turn 3. It took Bottas until Lap 5 for him to DRS past Stroll on the approach to Turn 1. 

Verstappen pitted for medium tyres at the end of Lap 21, after teammate Alex Albon had earlier changed to the hard-compound tyres. Hamilton responded with the same tyre strategy as Verstappen, although a sticky left-rear delayed his exit as Mercedes double-stacked its cars.

Verstappen was 4s behind by this point, but fell back to 9s in arrears by Lap 40. He stopped again with 20 laps to go for more mediums, but was clearly racing Bottas for second rather than Hamilton for the win.

Bottas switched to the softs for his final stint against Verstappen on mediums, while Hamilton dismissed Merc’s idea of also switching to the softs and took more mediums to the finish. Bottas gave up in his pursuit of Verstappen, and took new mediums near the end to ensure he scored the point for fastest lap. 

They were the only three cars to complete the full 66-lap distance, with Hamilton lapping everyone up to third place.

The Racing Points battled hard after their first pitstops, after Perez had to battle past an early-stopping Carlos Sainz (McLaren) for sixth. Perez (who got a 5s penalty for ignoring blue flags) and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel went for ambitious one-stop strategies.

Perez kept the fresher-tyred Stroll at bay by 2s, but the time penalty dropped Perez behind Stroll to fifth, with Sainz sixth. Vettel just clung on to seventh ahead of Albon,  Pierre Gasly (AlphaTauri) and Lando Norris (McLaren).

F1 Spanish Grand Prix race results

Cla		Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Pits	Points
1		Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	66	-		2	25
2		Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	66	24.177	24.177	2	18
3		Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	66	44.752	44.752	3	16
4		Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	65	1 lap		2	12
5		Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	65	1 lap		1	10
6		Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	65	1 lap		2	8
7		Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	65	1 lap		1	6
8		Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	65	1 lap		2	4
9		Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	65	1 lap		2	2
10		Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	65	1 lap		2	1
11		Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	65	1 lap		1
12		Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	65	1 lap		2
13		Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	65	1 lap		1
14		Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	65	1 lap		2
15		Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	65	1 lap		1
16		Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	65	1 lap		2
17		George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	65	1 lap		2
18		Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	64	2 laps		2
19		Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	64	2 laps		2
	dnf	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	38			2
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F1 Spanish Grand Prix fastest laps

Cla	Driver		Chassis	Engine	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	km/h
1	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	66	1'18.183			214.343
2	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	63	1'19.822	1.639	1.639	209.942
3	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	64	1'20.409	2.226	0.587	208.409
4	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	53	1'21.477	3.294	1.068	205.677
5	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	59	1'21.771	3.588	0.294	204.938
6	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	47	1'21.801	3.618	0.030	204.863
7	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	47	1'21.888	3.705	0.087	204.645
8	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	56	1'22.024	3.841	0.136	204.306
9	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	60	1'22.030	3.847	0.006	204.291
10	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	65	1'22.174	3.991	0.144	203.933
11	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	41	1'22.194	4.011	0.020	203.883
12	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	47	1'22.336	4.153	0.142	203.531
13	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	56	1'22.392	4.209	0.056	203.393
14	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	51	1'22.464	4.281	0.072	203.215
15	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	37	1'22.503	4.320	0.039	203.119
16	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	58	1'22.515	4.332	0.012	203.090
17	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	44	1'22.543	4.360	0.028	203.021
18	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	48	1'22.707	4.524	0.164	202.618
19	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	64	1'23.474	5.291	0.767	200.757
20	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	35	1'23.968	5.785	0.494	199.576
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F1 Spanish Grand Prix tyre history

Cla	#	Driver		Chassis	Engine	1		2		3		4
1	44	Lewis Hamilton		Mercedes	Mercedes	S	26	M	27	M	16
2	33	Max Verstappen		Red Bull	Honda	S	24	M	20	M	25
3	77	Valtteri Bottas		Mercedes	Mercedes	S	26	M	25	S	19	M	2
4	18	Lance Stroll		Racing Point	Mercedes	S	30	M	15	S	26
5	11	Sergio Perez		Racing Point	Mercedes	S	32	M	36
6	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.		McLaren	Renault	S	25	S	22	M	24
7	5	Sebastian Vettel		Ferrari	Ferrari	M	29	S	39
8	23	Alex Albon		Red Bull	Honda	S	20	H	22	M	26
9	10	Pierre Gasly		AlphaTauri	Honda	S	24	M	21	M	23
10	4	Lando Norris		McLaren	Renault	S	24	S	26	M	21
11	3	Daniel Ricciardo		Renault	Renault	M	35	S	30
12	26	Daniil Kvyat		AlphaTauri	Honda	S	21	M	24	M	20
13	31	Esteban Ocon		Renault	Renault	M	34	S	31
14	7	Kimi Raikkonen		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	M	20	M	27	S	21
15	20	Kevin Magnussen		Haas	Ferrari	S	31	M	38
16	99	Antonio Giovinazzi		Alfa Romeo	Ferrari	M	21	M	24	S	20
17	63	George Russell		Williams	Mercedes	S	19	M	16	M	30
18	6	Nicholas Latifi		Williams	Mercedes	M	28	M	21	S	15
19	8	Romain Grosjean		Haas	Ferrari	M	33	S	33	S	2
	16	Charles Leclerc		Ferrari	Ferrari	S	32	M	9
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F1 Spanish Grand Prix as it happened