00:00Down towards the first braking zone, five lights ahead of the drivers, it's lights out and away we go and I think Verstappen got a slightly better start than Lewis Hamilton and also Charles Leclerc had a better start than Valtteri Bottas, Hamilton is just leading ahead then, old Max Verstappen on the inside of the Ferrari Esteban, on course Verstappen goes into turn one and goes past the Mercedes, he got his elbows out there Max Verstappen and takes the lead of the race from Lewis Hamilton and then Valtteri Bottas, they're all clean through the first couple of corners,
00:29but that was such an important move for Verstappen and he got it done well, once again Verstappen with razor blades on his elbows and he wouldn't appeal on the clock of the Italy, which is not what Valtteri Bottas wants but he might be, oh, just a few metres shy of making that late run into turn one, he'd like a headwind there because the DRS would be more powerful, engine stops, says Yuki Tsunoda on the outside of turn 10, the newly reprofiled
00:59turn 10, each and every one of them, wouldn't be at all surprised, yeah, safety car is going to be deployed, meanwhile, this was a few moments ago, George Russell has been threatening to get past Mick Schumacher for about three laps now, there he goes,
01:15Mick's doing a great job, isn't he, there it has, yeah, Mick Schumacher, and, yeah, I wonder how many plans you can remember, Marvin, as a broad focus when you're going around, and the safety car actually has made a bit of a mess of what that says, isn't he, because,
01:34yeah, because it would be very easy when you're doing 200 miles an hour to miss the exact detail of a B or a C, but the radios are very good, it must be said.
01:47What about the state of the tyres on Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes?
01:50The right rear looks ugly, doesn't it?
01:52Doesn't it just?
01:53That looks, that looks blistered, the right rear.
01:55The position that might be coming your way is, you're down if you do, if you're down if you don't sometimes, but here, track position is key.
02:02It is, but of course, you know, this track is dominated by Corny's, every straight is dominated by 23, Verstappen 24, Hamilton 29.
02:14Keep a note of those numbers, they're coming to play at the end, and here is Fernando Alonso going around the outside of Ontario Giovinazzi,
02:25and you've got Sebastian Vettel, who wants to make a move around the outside at turn three as well, though I think he might just miss out.
02:32And on the inside of Sebastian Vettel, here comes Pierre Gasly at turn four, you know, I often see three cars so close together through turn four,
02:41and how close was Sebastian Vettel, the Aston Martin, to the Alfa Tauri going through there.
02:45Either way, he's managed to get the move done that he really caught the race.
02:49Do you feel a panic, or do you think, no, that this track is so tricky to overtake, I can keep things nice and calm, I'm all right.
02:57And how do you try and keep yourself calm at 200 miles an hour?
03:00Well, remember, of course, in Portimao, just seven days ago, he got a little bit out of shape,
03:05and coming out of effectively the last corner, the last traction zone in Portimao, and Lewis was past him in a flash.
03:13He's got to this race behind his teammate, Antonio Gio Malazzi, and ahead of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton,
03:21he'll be it, further back of the race.
03:24It doesn't get DRFs on this pass, right?
03:27So it is on the way in, isn't it, to turn nine,
03:42up between eight and nine, and then you get in between nine and ten,
03:46and then it is four or so laps, five laps older tyres for him to be able to hold on to this lead.
03:55Massage from race control, no weaving on the straight.
03:59Well, the latest lap, the last lap, trying to break the toe, but three of tyres are not that great
04:05when he arrives on the gearbox and he starts sliding around again,
04:08but Max's tyres there, and he came in on lap 24,
04:12his tyres are going to be 42 laps old at the end of the grind break.
04:17Sergio Perez has managed to get past Daniel Ricciardo through time three, they go.
04:22And Perez is ahead, where did the move come from?
04:25That's a long way back there.
04:29Well, Daniel Ricciardo is normally the last of the late breakers,
04:31Perez might have broke a little bit later himself, got his own elbows out there.
04:35Yee-haw, what a move.
04:38How was that?
04:38If he was that, he's had a long way back.
04:43Yee, if he was under the weather yesterday, no.
04:44For the team-mate, Lando Norris, the car ahead of Lando Norris' current team-mate,
04:49Daniel Ricciardo.
04:50Can Sainz get past Lando Norris?
04:52Pulls out right at the last moment to the left-hand side,
04:55and in a turn where he goes.
04:57Say adios, Lando.
05:00I'll take that place off you.
05:02On the soft tyres.
05:03So Lando makes his move to defend.
05:06Back length in the day, I must say.
05:07And then...
05:09And Carlos Sorocari, though.
05:11Can't make reactions for Carlos Leclerc, isn't he, when he comes out of the pit lane.
05:15Leclerc making his way down the straight.
05:18At the moment is right at the end of it.
05:19There goes Pierre Gasly, round the outside of Sebastian Vettel.
05:23Gasly up.
05:25That's another good point to make there.
05:28It's not Verstappen, he's got the fastest lap at the moment.
05:31As we can watch Daniel Ricciardo's move on Esteban Ocon.
05:35Up in the sixth place for Ricciardo.
05:38His best day of the year, isn't it, for Daniel?
05:41Best, best certainly strongest week.
05:43There is an electronics fail on lap 39.
05:46And this time around, he has been sat in third place.
05:50He's now going to be looking at fourth place.
05:52And he's about to have Rotas sets a new fastest lap on this race.
05:56And moves back into the podium places once more.
05:59But Leclerc...
06:00Is he going to do it again here in Spain seven days later?
06:04He's getting shallow and rubber from the rear of that red bull.
06:07Hamilton goes around the outside at turn one.
06:10And the charge is complete.
06:12Hamilton by maybe going in to round five,
06:16which of course is Monaco in a couple of weeks' time.
06:19He won't want to miss that.
06:21Hamilton around the outside at turn one.
06:23And Max Verstappen just had no way of defending.
06:30Yeah, Mercedes certainly did.
06:33And that's what they're talking about, isn't it?
06:34Hungary, 2019.
06:37It's what I said, I'm a pin we're doing.
06:39Nate, Fox, and pick and burn, please.
06:42Fox, pick and burn, Max.
06:44This one is taking the extra points where it's available for him.
06:49Stroll loses out to Pierre Gasly for a point going into turn one.
06:54Gasly, we've been moving in the Ivalu race.
06:57Of course, he had a five-second penalty earlier on, didn't he?
06:59For starting quite a way, actually, ahead of his start box.
07:05You can see how that move emerged from Stroll.
07:08Try to defend and realise that there was no point doing that
07:11because Gasly was going to crash into it.
07:12Yeah.
07:14Looks a little bit naughty there from Lance.
07:17We saw Lamin O'Nouris getting a black and white flag for that.
07:21Again, here in Spain for Lewis Hamilton.
07:23It's his sixth Spanish Grand Prix win.
07:26It's his fifth in a row.
07:27It's 100 goals.
07:29And it's the chequered flag as the winner of the Spanish Grand Prix
07:32for Lewis Hamilton.
07:34Well done.
07:34Red ball.
07:36They thought they might have had the pace.
07:38Semi-qualifying, it was close,
07:39but the margin of victory in the end was 16 seconds
07:43between Hamilton and Verstappen.
07:45Ever start to any of his Formula One seasons.
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