A Brittle Balance
Youth again overcame experience in Barcelona, with Felipe Massa taking a dominant win and Lewis Hamilton moving into the championship lead. Richard Barnes examines the ramifications of the Spanish Grand Prix
After a month away from racing, McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen may have hoped that the break would shake their junior teammates out of the impressive form shown in Bahrain. But when the season resumed in last Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix, it was the less-fancied (and lower paid) of the quartet who again outshone their 'franchise star' teammates.
The gulf between the teammate salaries is so great, yet the difference in their on-track performances so marginal, that the championship has almost evolved into two intra-team battles, Alonso versus Hamilton and Raikkonen against Massa.
Share Or Save This Story
Subscribe and access Autosport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.