Championship chief Oscar Piastri of McLaren claimed his fifth Formula One win of the season on the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, as not even a late security automobile disturbed his win.
“It has been a great year and this weekend has been exactly the kind of weekend I’ve been looking for. It is a lot of fun winning races at the moment,” Piastri stated.
Team-mate Lando Norris, who received the Monaco Grand Prix final weekend, was second forward of the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.
Norris had closed the hole within the standings to Piastri to a few factors, however will go away Spain 10 factors behind the Australian.
“Oscar drove a very good race today, didn’t quite have the pace to match him but we gave it our best shot,” Norris stated.
Piastri had an important begin to retain his lead, but additionally gave Red Bull’s Max Verstappen a little bit tow, which helped the four-time defending champion to make a transfer on Norris for second place.
The race was targeted on the tyre technique and McLaren did an important job to maintain Piastri away from any bother, whereas Norris recovered second place and Verstappen dropped to 3rd.
It regarded like this was going to be the ultimate high three, however the security automobile was deployed on lap 55 after Kimi Antonelli parked up his Mercedes within the gravel with what regarded like a mechanical situation.
The main trio took the possibility to pit, with Verstappen taking a set of onerous tyres.
While Piastri and Norris on softs had no drawback on the restart, Verstappen locked up and Leclerc made his manner by means of to finish the rostrum.
“I mean when my engineers told me that Max was going on a new hard for the last stint, I was very optimistic as I knew how bad the hard was so that was when I knew I had to have a good restart!” Leclerc stated.
After being overtaken by Leclerc, Verstappen was additionally below strain from Russell heading into the opening chicane and the Dutchman had to make use of the escape highway as house rapidly closed.
Red Bull informed Verstappen to let Russell by means of, however as he was making ready to let the Mercedes by, the 2 collided.
Russell took fourth regardless, however Vertappen was handed a 10-second time penalty for inflicting a collision and dropped from fifth to tenth.
That meant Kick Sauber’s Nico Hülkenberg was ultimately fifth, his greatest end since 2019, when he crossed the road in the identical place.
The German was praised by race winner Piastri, who stated: “I saw Hülkenberg finished fifth, which is pretty impressive so well done to him!”
Hülkenberg did a transfer on seven-time Lewis Hamilton within the closing laps, because the Ferrari man needed to accept sixth, adopted by Isack Hadjar of Racing Bulls and Pierre Gasly of Alpine.
Home favorite Fernando Alonso of Aston Martin was ninth and Verstappen accomplished the highest 10.
F1 returns on June 15 on the Canadian Grand Prix.
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