F1 Spanish GP Live Commentary and Updates - Race
Live commentary and updates from the F1 Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge, Haydn Cobb, Tom Howard
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https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/spanish-gp-hamilton-outfoxes-verstappen-to-win-/6505692/
Full credit to Gasly for that late race attack, having gone from 16th to 10th on his final stint, but he just missed out on overtaking Ocon for ninth at the line.
During that scuffle and further up the road Norris has moved ahead of Ocon at Turn 1 to take eighth place.
But not for long as Gasly pulls off the same overtake on Stroll to take 10th place. It was a late defensive move by Stroll who is shown the black and white flag, as Norris was for a similar move earlier in the race.
The Alonso vs Stroll incident has been place under investigation. A lap later Stroll lines up the same move at the same place and makes it stick to take 10th place.
Russell’s drop has triggered a right battle royale for P10. Alonso defends strongly from Stroll at Turn 1 which sends the Aston Martin driver over the kerbs at Turn 2.
Russell, who had been right on the cusp of points behind Alonso, has lost a huge chunk of time and places and dropped to P15.
Norris, on the soft tyres, is making quick work back up into the points places. He gets by Russell and Alonso both at Turn 1 in successive laps to move up to ninth.
Sainz is in a bullish mood late in this race, as he gets by Ocon into Turn 1 to take seventh place. Both Alpine drivers are yet to stop for a second time and their pace is around 3s per lap slower than those that have stopped again.
Norris has been shown the black and white flag after that overtake by Sainz. It was a late defensive move by Norris which was a close call, so probably a warning is fair. On we go.
Norris, having waved his McLaren team-mate Ricciardo through being on the fresh soft tyres, is powerless to stop ex-team-mate Sainz sweeping around the outside at Turn 1 to take P8.
Gasly the next to make a second pitstop, taking on fresh softs, but suffers a slow stop with a sticky rear right. Not been a great afternoon for AlphaTauri it must be said. Gasly back out in P16 with 16 laps to change that.
Ricciardo, having just lost a place to Perez, pits at the same time as Sainz directly behind him. Ricciardo maintains his position with two evenly-matched stops, so it is as you were.
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