HAMILTON WINNER OF BORING SPANISH GRAND PRIX

Lewis Hamilton took a dominant lights to flag victory in sweltering conditions at Spanish Grand Prix, eventually crossing the line 25 seconds clear of Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen. Hamilton’s Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas was third ahead of the Racing Points of Lance Stroll and Sergio Pérez.

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In an ambien temperatures of aeround 30˚C and on a track nudging above 50˚C, Verstappen made a good getaway at the start and he was able to outpace the slower-starting Bottas on the long run to Turn 1 and steal P2 behind Hamilton. Stroll also made a good getaway from fifth place on the grid to pass team-mate Pérez and Bottas.

Behind them Alex Albon in the second Red Bull also made a solid start and he might have claimed fourth but in Turn 1 he was boxed in by the battle between Bottas and Stroll and was forced to hold his starting position.

Hamilton began to eke out a small gap to Verstappen, but the Red Bull driver clung to the race leader and after 10 laps he was just 1.6s behind the champion. Behind them, Bottas made his way past Stroll on lap five to close to retake third place. Verstappen made his first stop of the race on lap 22.

The Dutchman switched to medium tyres in just 1.9s, and when Hamilton made a slow change of 4.3s the Red Bull driver found himself back in second place, four seconds behind the Briton. Bottas was still in third, two seconds adrift of Verstappen. Fourth place was occupied by Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo, though the Australian had yet to make his first pit stop.

Verstappen made his second stop for a set of mediums, on lap 41 and after a two-second stop he was released back into third place, 18.2s behind Bottas. Bottas pitted eight laps later but though he was on fresher soft tyres he failed to make serious inroads on the gap to the Red Bull driver.

Hamilton followed his team-mate to the pit lane on lap 51 but after insisting to his team that he did not want softs, he was given a set of mediums before rejoining 9.6s ahead of Verstappen.

From there the result was set. Hamilton again began to build a lead and with little chance of an assault on the lead and with Bottas well behind, Verstappen managed his pace to the flag. The task was made more straightforward when Bottas made a late stop for medium tyres and a final-lap blast to the fastest lap of the race.

Behind the top three Lance Stroll took fourth place ahead of Racing Point team-mate Sergio Pérez, who dropped behind the Canadian due to the five-second penalty for ignoring blue flags.

Sixth place went to Carlos Sainz, while Sebastian Vettel made a one-stop strategy last to take seventh place, just one second ahead of Alex. Ninth place went to AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly and the final point on offer was taken by McLaren’s Lando Norris.

Spanish Grand Prix – Race 66 laps, 310.238km., Weather: Sunny.
CLASSIFIED:
P.	DRIVER	TEAM	TIME/GAP
1.	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG	1h31:45.279
2.	Max Verstappen	Red Bull	+ 24.177
3.	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes AMG	+ 44.752
4.	Lance Stroll	Racing Point	+ 1 lap
5.	Sergio Pérez	Racing Point	+ 1 lap
6.	Carlos Sainz Jr.	McLaren	+ 1 lap
7.	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	+ 1 lap
8.	Alexander Albon	Red Bull	+ 1 lap
9.	Pierre Gasly	AlphaTauri	+ 1 lap
10.	Lando Norris	McLaren	+ 1 lap
11.	Daniel Ricciardo	Renault	+ 1 lap
12.	Daniil Kvyat	AlphaTauri	+ 1 lap
13.	Esteban Ocon	Renault	+ 1 lap
14.	Kimi Räikkönen	Alfa Romeo	+ 1 lap
15.	Kevin Magnussen	Haas	+ 1 lap
16.	Antonio Giovinazzi	Alfa Romeo	+ 1 lap
17.	George Russell	Williams	+ 1 lap
18.	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	+ 2 laps
19.	Romain Grosjean	Haas	+ 2 laps
FASTEST LAP: VALTTERI BOTTAS - 1:18.183
NOT CLASSIFIED:
20.	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	technical
2014 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h41:05.155 2015 Nico Rosberg - Mercedes AMG - 1h41:12.555 2016 Max Verstappen - Red Bull - 1h41:40.017 2017 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h35:56.497 2018 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h35:29.972 2019 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h35.50.443 2020 Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes AMG - 1h31:45.279 @MkFormula1 - REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

CLASSIFICATION AFTER 06/?? RACES
DRIVERS:
1.	Lewis Hamilton	132
2.	Max Verstappen	95
3.	Valtteri Bottas	89
4.	Charles Leclerc	45
5.	Lance Stroll	40
6.	Alexander Albon	40
7.	Lando Norris	39
8.	Sergio Pérez	32
9.	Carlos Sainz Jr.	23
10.	Daniel Ricciardo	20
11.	Sebastian Vettel	16
12.	Esteban Ocon	16
13.	Pierre Gasly	14
14.	Nico Hulkenberg	6
15.	Antonio Giovinazzi	2
16.	Daniil Kvyat	2
17.	Kevin Magnussen	1
18.	Kimi Räikkönen	0
19.	Nicholas Latifi	0
20.	George Russell	0
21.	Romain Grosjean	0
CONSTRUCTORS:
1.	Mercedes AMG	221
2.	Red Bull	135
3.	Racing Point(-15)	63
4.	McLaren	62
5.	Ferrari	61
6.	Renault	36
7.	AlphaTauri	16
8.	Alfa Romeo	2
9.	Haas	1
10.	Williams	0