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The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was built as part of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics development programme. The foundation stone was laid in 1989, while the first car race was a round of the 1991 Spanish Touring Car Championship.
Two weeks after the touring cars raced at Barcelona, it was Formula 1’s turn. The track enjoyed a sensational debut, with Nigel Mansell and Ayrton Senna’s famous eyeball-to-eyeball drag race down the straight, before Mansell took the lead and drove on to victory.
Usually they would have loads of data from testing pre-season but this year they wont have that luxury with testing having been in the desert. But they all know it with their eyes closed.
The track is a good mix of high- and low-speed corners, with the challenging Turn 3 right-hander a great chance to evaluate the balance of the car your team’s designers have given you to fight with for the season.
First Grand Prix
1991
Number of Laps
66
Circuit Length
4.675km
Race Distance
308.424 km
Lap Record
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Schedule for the weekend in local European time. (UK is minus 1hr. Aussies +8hrs)
09
MAY
Race
15:00 - 17:00
08
MAY
Qualifying
15:00 - 16:00
08
MAY
Practice 3
12:00 - 13:00
07
MAY
Practice 2
15:00 - 16:00
07
MAY
Practice 1
11:30 - 12:30
What happened last year?
After starting in second, Bottas was overtaken by Verstappen and Stroll at the first corner. Bottas then used the DRS on the fifth lap to pass Stroll and move back up into third place. Hamilton won the race by 24 seconds, lapping everyone except for Verstappen and Bottas, who completed the podium in second and third place.
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc retired from the race with a mechanical problem after he spun at the chicane.
Leclerc's teammate Sebastian Vettel finished seventh after driving for more than half the race distance on one set of soft tyres.
Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 66 1:31:45.279 1 25
2 33 Max Verstappen Red Bull Racing-Honda 66 +24.177 3 18
3 77 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 66 +44.752 2 161
4 18 Lance Stroll Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 65 +1 lap 5 12
5 11 Sergio Pérez Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 65 +1 lap2 4 10
6 55 Carlos Sainz Jr. McLaren-Renault 65 +1 lap 7 8
7 5 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 65 +1 lap 11 6
8 23 Alexander Albon Red Bull Racing-Honda 65 +1 lap 6 4
9 10 Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri-Honda 65 +1 lap 10 2
10 4 Lando Norris McLaren-Renault 65 +1 lap 8 1
11 3 Daniel Ricciardo Renault 65 +1 lap 13
12 26 Daniil Kvyat AlphaTauri-Honda 65 +1 lap3 12
13 31 Esteban Ocon Renault 65 +1 lap 15
14 7 Kimi Räikkönen Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 65 +1 lap 14
15 20 Kevin Magnussen Haas-Ferrari 65 +1 lap 16
16 99 Antonio Giovinazzi Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari 65 +1 lap 20
17 63 George Russell Williams-Mercedes 65 +1 lap 18
18 6 Nicholas Latifi Williams-Mercedes 64 +2 laps 19
19 8 Romain Grosjean Haas-Ferrari 64 +2 laps 17
Ret 16 Charles Leclerc Ferrari 38 Electrical 9
Fastest lap: Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) – 1:18.183 (lap 66)
Mongol Update: They never got there. It was summer and they had left their sun block back home. And the Basques were bastards and waiting for them if they had turned up.
No Mongols in the line up for the race this year either. Only Mexicans, Brits, French, Japanese, Finns, Dutch, Monégasques, Italians, Aussies, Spanish, Germans, Canadians and Russians who cant be Russian.
Yes I know for the pedants out there that is all plurals and only Brits Germans French Finns Spanish and Canadians are actually more than one.... live with it. If that is the worse thing that happens to you today, its a good day
