2019 Spanish Grand Prix

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2019 Spanish Grand Prix
Race 5 of 21 in the 2019 Formula One World Championship ← Previous race Next race →
Layout of the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
Race details[1]
Date	12 May 2019
Official name	Formula 1 Emirates Gran Premio de España 2019
Location	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló, Spain
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	4.655 km (2.892 mi)
Distance	66 laps, 307.104 km (190.825 mi)
Attendance	160,428
Pole position
Driver	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Time	1:15.406
Fastest lap
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:18.492 on lap 54
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes
Third	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda
Lap leaders

The 2019 Spanish Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Emirates Gran Premio de España 2019) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 12 May 2019 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. The race was the 5th round of the 2019 Formula One World Championship and marked the 49th running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the 29th time that a World Championship round had been held at the Barcelona-Catalunya circuit.

Background[]

Entrants[]

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]

Penalties[]

Daniel Ricciardo carried forward a three-place grid penalty from the previous race for causing a collision with Daniil Kvyat.^[3]

Qualifying[]

Valtteri Bottas set the fastest time in all three parts of qualifying to take his third consecutive pole of the season.^[4]

Qualifying classification[]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Qualifying times			Final grid
				Q1	Q2	Q3
1	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	1:16.979	1:15.924	1:15.406	1
2	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	1:17.292	1:16.038	1:16.040	2
3	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	1:17.425	1:16.667	1:16.272	3
4	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda	1:17.244	1:16.726	1:16.357	4
5	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	1:17.388	1:16.714	1:16.588	5
6	10	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing-Honda	1:17.862	1:16.932	1:16.708	6
7	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	1:18.042	1:17.066	1:16.911	7
8	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	1:17.669	1:17.272	1:16.922	8
9	26	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:17.914	1:17.243	1:17.573	9
10	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	1:18.385	1:17.299	1:18.106	131
11	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	1:17.611	1:17.338	N/A	10
12	23	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	1:17.796	1:17.445	N/A	11
13	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren-Renault	1:17.760	1:17.599	N/A	12
14	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	1:18.132	1:17.788	N/A	14
15	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	1:18.286	1:17.886	N/A	15
16	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	1:18.404	N/A	N/A	PL2
17	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	1:18.471	N/A	N/A	16
18	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	1:18.664	N/A	N/A	183
19	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	1:19.072	N/A	N/A	194
20	88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	1:20.254	N/A	N/A	17
107% time: 1:22.367
Source:[4][5]

Notes

• ^1 – Daniel Ricciardo received a three-place grid penalty for causing a collision at the previous round.^[3]
• ^2 – Nico Hülkenberg was required to start from the pit lane after changing the specification of his front wing during qualifying and changing brake map parameters. He also was required to start from the rear of the starting grid for changing multiple power unit components.^[6]
• ^3 – Antonio Giovinazzi received a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.^[6]
• ^4 – George Russell received a five-place grid penalty for an unscheduled gearbox change.^[7]

Race[]

Valtteri Bottas started the race from pole position, but his teammate Lewis Hamilton made a slightly better start from second on the grid to take the lead into the first corner. Sebastian Vettel briefly pulled his Ferrari 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's Max 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 teammate Charles 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, as Racing Point's Lance Stroll and McLaren's Lando 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 two Haas drivers that saw Kevin Magnussen overtake teammate Romain 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 placed Carlos Sainz Jr. and 9th placed Daniil Kvyat in the bottom half of the points. Hamilton led his teammate home by just over four seconds, taking his third straight victory in Spain. He also claimed the fastest lap of the race on Lap 54, only missing out on a grand slam by virtue of not starting from pole position. Valtteri Bottas finished in second place, securing Mercedes's fifth consecutive 1–2 finish in 2019 with Max Verstappen finishing in third. The podium of the race was exactly the same as the previous year. Both Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles 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]

Race classification[]

Pos.	No.	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Points
1	44	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	66	1:35:50.443	2	261
2	77	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	66	+4.074	1	18
3	33	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-Honda	66	+7.679	4	15
4	5	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	66	+9.167	3	12
5	16	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	66	+13.361	5	10
6	10	Pierre Gasly	Red Bull Racing-Honda	66	+19.576	6	8
7	20	Kevin Magnussen	Haas-Ferrari	66	+28.159	8	6
8	55	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren-Renault	66	+32.342	12	4
9	26	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	66	+33.056	9	2
10	8	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	66	+34.641	7	1
11	23	Alexander Albon	Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda	66	+35.455	11
12	3	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	66	+36.758	13
13	27	Nico Hülkenberg	Renault	66	+39.241	PL
14	7	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	66	+41.803	14
15	11	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	66	+46.877	15
16	99	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo Racing-Ferrari	66	+47.691	18
17	63	George Russell	Williams-Mercedes	65	+1 lap	19
18	88	Robert Kubica	Williams-Mercedes	65	+1 lap	17
Ret	18	Lance Stroll	Racing Point-BWT Mercedes	44	Collision	16
Ret	4	Lando Norris	McLaren-Renault	44	Collision	10
Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – 1:18.492 (lap 54)
Source:[5][9][10]

Notes

• ^1  – Includes one point for the fastest lap.

Championship standings after the race[]

Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Driver Points 1 1 Lewis Hamilton 112 1 2 Valtteri Bottas 105 1 3 Max Verstappen 66 1 4 Sebastian Vettel 64 5 Charles Leclerc 57 Source:[11]

Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Constructor Points 1 Mercedes 217 2 Ferrari 121 3 Red Bull Racing-Honda 87 4 McLaren-Renault 22 5 Racing Point-BWT Mercedes 17 Source:[11]

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

See also[]

• 2019 Barcelona Formula 2 round
• 2019 Barcelona Formula 3 round

References[]