| 2019 Spanish Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 5 of 21 in the2019 Formula One World Championship
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 Layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya | |||||
| Race details[1] | |||||
| Date | 12 May 2019 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1EmiratesGran Premio de España 2019 | ||||
| Location | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló,Spain | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 4.655 km (2.892 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 66 laps, 307.104 km (190.825 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Sunny | ||||
| Attendance | 160,428 | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||||
| Time | 1:15.406 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver |  Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:18.492 on lap 54 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First | Mercedes | ||||
| Second | Mercedes | ||||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-Honda | ||||
Lap leaders | |||||
The2019 Spanish Grand Prix (formally known as theFormula 1 Emirates Gran Premio de España 2019) was aFormula One motor race that took place on 12 May 2019 at theCircuit de Barcelona-Catalunya inMontmeló,Spain. The race was the 5th round of the2019 Formula One World Championship and marked the 49th running of theSpanish Grand Prix as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in1950, and the 29th time that a World Championship round had been held at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit.
Valtteri Bottas took pole position for the race, ahead ofMercedes teammateLewis Hamilton andSebastian Vettel. Hamilton would take the lead on lap one, and would remain there to win the Grand Prix ahead of Bottas, andMax Verstappen. It was Hamilton's third Spanish Grand Prix victory, and the fifth consecutive Mercedes 1-2 finish.
The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for either the race or practice.[2]
Daniel Ricciardo carried forward a three-place grid penalty from theprevious race for causing a collision withDaniil Kvyat.[3]
Valtteri Bottas set the fastest time in all three parts of qualifying to take his third consecutive pole of the season.[4]
Valtteri Bottas started the race from pole position, but his teammateLewis Hamilton made a slightly better start from second on the grid to take the lead into the first corner.Sebastian Vettel briefly pulled hisFerrari into second around the outside of Turn 1 as Bottas, stuck between Vettel and Hamilton, was forced to yield. However, Vettel promptly ran wide in Turn 1 and allowed Bottas back into second place.Red Bull'sMax Verstappen took advantage of the Ferraris' squabbling through the first two turns to move into third place with an overtake around the outside of Vettel in Turn 3, and comfortably held on to the last podium position for the remainder of the race.
While Vettel was ordered by the Ferrari pitwall to allow teammateCharles Leclerc into fourth place in the early running, the two would later switch positions back and Vettel would eventually lead home a Ferrari 4-5 finish. On lap 44, the safety car was brought out by the only retirements of the day, asRacing Point'sLance Stroll andMcLaren'sLando Norris collided in Turn 2. The safety car bunched up the field with 22 laps remaining but ultimately did not change the running order among the top 6 drivers, with the most notable result of the safety car being the subsequent battle between the twoHaas drivers that sawKevin Magnussen overtake teammateRomain Grosjean, who subsequently slipped back to 10th place by the end of the race.
Haas would ultimately be the only team outside of the top 3 to score a double points finish, and were joined by 8th placedCarlos Sainz Jr. and 9th placedDaniil Kvyat in the bottom half of the points. Hamilton led his teammate home by just over four seconds, taking his third straight victory inSpain. He also claimed the fastest lap of the race on Lap 54, only missing out on agrand slam by virtue of not starting from pole position.Valtteri Bottas finished in second place, securingMercedes's fifth consecutive 1–2 finish in2019 withMax Verstappen finishing in third. The podium of the race was exactly the same asthe previous year. BothFerrari driversSebastian Vettel andCharles Leclerc finished in fourth and fifth place respectively.
Dieter Zetche Mercedes's team managing director for which the competition was the last in the joined the podium to receive the winning manufacturer's award.[8]
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