Mercedes finishes 1st & 2nd in the Spanish Grand Prix that makes the 5 F-1 races in a row this seems to be the year of Mercedes.
Car 44 Lewis Hamilton wins the Spanish Grand Prix. His biggest threat was his own Mercedes team mate Car 6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes who came in 2nd place. Mercedes is dominating in F-1 for 2014 winning the 1st five races of season. Hamilton started on pole again & lead the pack from turn 1 to the checker flag to put in himself in 1st place in the championship with a 3 point lead over his team mate.
2nd Place Car 6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes made it exciting in the last laps as he was able to use the Drag Resistance System (DRS) to catch up with Lewis Hamilton and with lapped traffic Nico kept the pressure on to the end. An interesting thing is both Mercedes were running different tire strategy and were not under any team orders so you got to see booth cars fighting to win.
3rd Place Car 3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-Renault followed by team mate Car 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault in 4th place, 5th place Car 77 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes followed by Car 14 Fernando Alonso Ferrari in 6th place. 7th place Car 7 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari followed by Car 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault in 8th place. 9th Car 11 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes followed by Car 27 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes in 10th place which is the last car in the points.
So far in the points Mercedes’ Hamilton has a 100 points to 2nd place Rosberg’s 97 points
with a good lead over 3rd place Fernando Alonso Ferrari at 49 points. In the Constructors Mercedes leading with 197 points over 2nd place Red Bull Racing-Renault 84 points, winning the first 5 races of the season & cars finishing 1st & 2nd in the last 4 races is why they have the great lead.
2014 F-1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA PIRELLI 2014
Position, Car #, Driver, Team
1. Car 44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2. Car 6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes
3. Car 3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-Renault
4. Car 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault
5. Car 77 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes
6. Car 14 Fernando Alonso Ferrari
7. Car 7 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
8. Car 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault
9. Car 11 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes
10. Car 27 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes
11. Car 22 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
12. Car 20 Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes
13. Car 19 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes
14. Car 26 Daniil Kvyat STR-Renault
15. Car 13 Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault
16. Car 21 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari
17. Car 99 Adrian Sutil, Sauber-Ferrari
18. Car 17 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari
19. Car 4 Max Chilton Marussia-Ferrari
20. Car 9 Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault
Ret Car 10 Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault – Brakes
Ret Car 25 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Renault – Exhaust
Note – Vergne qualified P16, dropped 10 grid spots, unsafe release in FP2. Vettel qualified P10, dropped 5, gearbox change. Maldonado failed to set a Q1 time, raced at stewards’ discretion
Next race: FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2014 May 22 – May 25