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GR pits for the 3rd time. Rejoins behind Bottas in 4th.

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Perez pits.... he should rejoin 2nd.

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Perez on softs must be to try and get the FL point from Lewis. :smiley:

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Tsunoda takes 10th from Schu. So Schu out of the points again. So close.....

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Lewis within DRS of Sainz who has DRS on Bottas..
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The arse of this race totally fell out when Max pitted.

If only Lewis did his job properly and was a proper tail gunner blocking for George ;).
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Lewis passes Sainz for 4th.

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At least Perez took FL from Lewis.

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Sainz all over the back of Lewis again.

Passes him on the straight. 4th for Sainz.

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RB 1-2 Max from Sergio and GR 3rd.

Max leads the WDC.

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POS DRIVER GAP
1 Max VERSTAPPEN
2 Sergio PEREZ+13.072
3 George RUSSELL+32.927
4 Carlos SAINZ+45.208
5 Lewis HAMILTON+54.534
6 Valtteri BOTTAS+59.976
7 Esteban OCON+75.397
8 Lando NORRIS+83.235
9 Fernando ALONSO1 L
10 Yuki TSUNODA1 L
11 Sebastian VETTEL1 L
12 Daniel RICCIARDO1 L
13 Pierre GASLY1 L
14 Mick SCHUMACHER1 L
15 Lance STROLL1 L
16 Nicholas LATIFI 2 L
17 Kevin MAGNUSSEN 2 L
18 Alexander ALBON 2 L
19 Guanyu ZHOU
20 Charles LECLERC

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So Max takes the lead in the WDC by 6 points from the unlucky Charles Leclerc.


n Driver Points
1. Max VERSTAPPEN 110
2. Charles LECLERC 104
3. Sergio PEREZ 85
4. George RUSSELL 74
5. Carlos SAINZ 65
6. Lewis HAMILTON 46
7. Lando NORRIS 39
8. Valtteri BOTTAS 38
9. Esteban OCON 30
10. Kevin MAGNUSSEN 15

In the constructors its Red Bull taking the lead from Ferrari. Mercsopen a bigger gap on McLaren but the positions from Ferrari down stay unchanged


n Constructor Points
1. Red Bull 195
2. Ferrari 169
3. Mercedes 120
4. McLaren Mercedes 50
5. Alfa Romeo Ferrari 39
6. Alpine Renault 34
7. AlphaTauri Red Bull 17
8. Haas Ferrari 15
9. Aston Martin Mercedes 6
10. Williams Mercedes 3

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That race wasn't half-bad for a Spanish GP.
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How Verstappen was nearly caught out by F1's cool fuel rule

It seems that as well as the DRS issue we saw on TV as the RB spanners worked on Max's car on the grid, there were other dramas that almost saw the Red Bulls start from pitlane. Remember the drama at Miami which led to the AM's starting from pitlane due to fuel that was over cooled beyond the regs.... it seems the Bulls almost fell foul of the same rule. It seems Max;s car in particular was borderline when he left pitlane at the absolute latest time allowed to be able to join the grid. Alpha Tauri were also borderline.

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Spanish Grand Prix winner Max Verstappen only just made it out of the Formula 1 pitlane and onto the grid after an intriguing drama in Red Bull’s garage.

Its understood that the cars of both Honda-powered teams were delayed in leaving the garage because they had concerns about complying with the FIA regulations on minimum fuel temperature, something that also caught out Aston Martin in Miami, where both AMR22s had to start from the pitlane.

Article 6 of the FIA technical regulations specifies that fuel cannot be more than 10 degrees centigrade below the officially declared ambient temperature.

The rules state: “No fuel intended for immediate use in a car may be more than ten degrees centigrade below ambient temperature.

“When assessing compliance, the ambient temperature will be that recorded by the FIA appointed weather service provider one hour before any practice session or two hours before the race. This information will also be displayed on the timing monitors.

“The temperature of fuel intended for use in a car must be measured via an FIA approved and sealed sensor.”

For the first five races of this season with the new cars it was agreed by the teams and the FIA to peg minimum fuel temperature at 18 degrees - in effect using a notional 28 degrees ambient for Bahrain, Jeddah, Melbourne, Imola and Miami.

However the figure reverted to the original rule for Barcelona. The official FIA pre-race ambient temperature was 35 degrees, so the fuel could be no cooler than 25 degrees.

Teams have to put the fuel into their cars two hours before the start, and declare to the FIA how much is onboard.

The fuel then gradually warms up while it is sitting in the car, and that process continues when the engine is running in the garage.

In the rules as written there appears to be a question mark about whether the fuel has to be at the legal level even before the cars take to the track, as the phrase “fuel intended for immediate use in a car” could be open to interpretation.

However a clarification recently issued to teams by the FIA seemingly confirmed that it is now regarded as being when the cars leave the garage.

In effect that potentially leaves teams free to put the fuel in the cars two hours before the race at lower than the legal temperature, and then rely on it getting warmer before the pitlane opens and the cars leave the garage 40 minutes before the start of the race.

When the cars take to the track the starting fuel temperature will thus be lower than if it had been above the legal minimum when it first went into the car, and had subsequently warmed up.

Teams generally want cooler fuel for both reliability and performance reasons, although the latter less significant than in the naturally-aspirated engine era.

It’s understood that in Barcelona Red Bull and AlphaTauri realised as the start approached that they might be marginal on reaching the required minimum when the pitlane opened at 2.20pm.

In order to take advantage of almost 10 extra minutes to allow the fuel to warm up – and with the engines of the cars running – both delayed their exits from the garage until the last possible opportunity before the pitlane closed at 2.30pm.

As a result the cars were not able to do the usual two or three pre-race laps with a run through the pitlane, or practice starts.

The two teams were in a better situation than Aston Martin in Miami, where the team made a mistake in its processes and was so far off the required numbers that the cars could not get to the grid in time while the fuel temperature adjusted.

There’s no question about the fuel in the Red Bulls and AlphaTauris being at a legal temperature when they left the garage, as the numbers are monitored by the FIA and any discrepancy would have been flagged.

However after the race Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto created a stir when he indicated that he believed that the fuel has to be above the minimum “at all times”, and suggested that a team cannot heat it up by running the car’s power unit.

In fact his statement suggested that perhaps he has a different interpretation of the rules than that suggested by the recent clarification – one that might just be prompted by Ferrari being less concerned than others about higher fuel temperatures.
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