Race results 2018 Spanish F1 grand prix

Top three finishers Lewis Hamilton, Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen celebrate on the podium with Mercedes race engineer Peter Bonnington during the Spanish GP F1/2018.

Event: Spanish Grand Prix
Track: Catalunya Circuit

Weather:  Dry  15.4ºC
Tarmac: Dry 34.5ºC
Wind speed: 3.2 km/h
Humidity: 53.8%

Lewis Hamilton won the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix today. It was his 65th F1 win and his 4th in Spain, 2nd win of the season. For Mercedes it was the 79th Formula 1 victory and 42nd 1-2 finish.

The 2018 Spanish Grand Prix started with a big crash in turn 3. After the start Romain Grosjean had to do an avoiding move in the Haas, because hiis team mate Kevin Magnussen lost his rear in turn 3. Grosjean spun and slammed the gas, which caused a cloud of smoke and zero visibility. Nico Hulkenberg in the Renault and Pierre Gasly in the Toro Rosso could not avoid a collision and retired with severe collision damage.

After 5 laps behind the safety car the race resumed. In lap 18 Sebastian Vettel pitted and switched to medium (white) tyres. One lap later Bottas did the same and came close to 2nd place.

in lap 24 Kimi Raikkonen had turbo problem on his Ferrari SF71H. He drove slow on the track, but was able to recover get to the pit and retired.

In lap 41 Esteban Ocon retired with an engine problem and caused a virtual safety car period. During the VSC Vettel pitted and lost his P2 to comeback on the track as 4th. Max Verstappen lost the wing-end plate on the left front wing when he hit Sergey Sirotkin at the end of the VSC period.

Stoffel Vandoorne also had to retire his McLaren with a gearbox problem on the start/finish straight in lap 47.

Lewis Hamilton drove a very strong race and created a 19 second gap to his Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas. Bottas scored his 26th podium

After a bad start in the 2018 F1 season Max Verstappen also had a strong performance again and scored his 13th podium.

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Classification 2018 Spanish GP

Pos	#	Driver	Constructor	Car & Engine	Grid	Laps	Led	Time	Pts
1	44	LewisHamilton	Mercedes	Mercedes W09Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	1	66	58	1:35:29.972	25
2	77	ValtteriBottas	Mercedes	Mercedes W09Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	2	66		1:35:50.565+20.593s	18
3	33	MaxVerstappen	Red Bull	Red Bull RB14Renault R.E.18	5	66	8	1:35:56.845+26.873s	15
4	5	SebastianVettel	Ferrari	Ferrari SF71-HFerrari 062 EVO	3	66		1:35:57.556+27.584s	12
5	3	DanielRicciardo	Red Bull	Red Bull RB14Renault R.E.18	6	66		1:36:20.030+50.058s	10
6	20	KevinMagnussen	Haas	Haas VF-18Ferrari 062 EVO	7	65		1:35:48.205+18.233s	8
7	55	CarlosSainz	Renault	Renault Sport R.S.18Renault R.E.18	9	65		1:36:24.940+54.968s	6
8	14	FernandoAlonso	McLaren	McLaren MCL33Renault R.E.18	8	65		1:36:28.028+58.056s	4
9	11	SergioPérez	Force India	Force India VJM11Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	15	64		1:35:30.601+0.629s	2
10	16	CharlesLeclerc	Sauber	Sauber C37Ferrari 062 EVO	14	64		1:35:36.153+6.181s	1
11	18	LanceStroll	Williams	Williams FW41 Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	18	64		1:35:40.965+10.993s
12	28	BrendonHartley	Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR13Honda RA618H	20	64		1:35:49.920+19.948s
13	9	MarcusEricsson	Sauber	Sauber C37Ferrari 062 EVO	17	64		1:35:53.903+23.931s
14	35	SergeySirotkin	Williams	Williams FW41 Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	19	63		1:35:37.411+7.439s
DNF	2	StoffelVandoorne	McLaren	McLaren MCL33Renault R.E.18	11	45		Gearbox
DNF	31	EstebanOcon	Force India	Force India VJM11Mercedes M09 EQ Power+	13	38		Power unit
DNF	7	KimiRäikkönen	Ferrari	Ferrari SF71-HFerrari 062 EVO	4	25		Turbo
DNF	27	NicoHülkenberg	Renault	Renault Sport R.S.18Renault R.E.18	16	0		Collision Grosjean
DNF	10	PierreGasly	Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR13Honda RA618H	12	0		Collision Grosjean
DNF	8	RomainGrosjean	Haas	Haas VF-18Ferrari 062 EVO	10	0		Spun and collision

Fastest lap: 1:18.441 min by Daniel Ricciardo (Red Bull RB14) in lap 61 @213.638 km/h
Highest speed: 340.1 km/h by Esteban Ocon (Force India VJM11)

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