00:01It's lights out and away we go, and I think Verstappen got a slightly better start than Lewis Hamilton and
00:06also Charles Leclerc a better start than Valtteri Bottas.
00:09Hamilton is just leading ahead then of Max Verstappen on the inside of the Ferrari Esteban Ocon as Verstappen goes
00:15into Turn 1 and goes past the Mercedes.
00:18He got his elbows out there, Max Verstappen, and takes the lead of the race from Lewis Hamilton and then
00:22Valtteri Bottas.
00:23They're all clean through the first couple of corners, but that was such an important move for Verstappen and he
00:29got it done well.
00:30Once again Verstappen with razor blades on his elbows and he would not yield. All fair. It was good racing
00:37and Lewis did well to just step out of it and live for another 66 laps.
00:44Engine stopped on the outside of Turn 10, the newly reprofiled Turn 10. Wouldn't be a tall surprise. Yes, safety
00:52car is going to be deployed.
00:54Max Verstappen is off and running and Lewis Hamilton trying to get to a spot where the Ferrari behind him
01:02can't get the benefit of a tow.
01:03But he's given up on that and he's gone for the best place possible to go into Turn 1. Sergio
01:08Perez is in a duel with Esteban Ocon, 6th and 7th on the race track.
01:14Yeah, Max is trying to break the tow. Quick thinking there. You're allowed to do that. You know, you might
01:19think, well, you're not allowed to move across the track like that.
01:21That's only when you're in combat. If there's nobody around you, you can move side to side.
01:26Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll now going through Turn 4. Alonso's got the inside line, but can Stroll hang on
01:31to this to take the inside line at Turn 5 and take a position and move into 9th place?
01:37He can. He's ahead of Fernando Alonso into 10th place. Mercedes have opted to carry on as Verstappen pits.
01:45Yeah, he's right below me, Crofty. They're a bit slow on the rear left. The rear left tire very slow
01:51to come out. I don't know if it was a late call, but they were slow to bring the tire
01:55out and that's cost him time.
01:56This is a huge opportunity. Once again, an opportunity given to Mercedes and Hamilton.
02:03Blue flags. Michael, this guy makes us lose the position. That's Toto Wolff talking to race control.
02:10Yeah, talking to Michael Massey.
02:13All the tires are here, unlike the Red Bull situation. The team nice and early. Hamilton gets a clean entry
02:20into his pit box. No problems here. Always on track. That's a superstar from Mercedes. Lots of fist bumping here
02:27from the mechanics.
02:28Red Bull think they're safe in this pit stop to the threat of Mercedes, and they are.
02:35Fernando Alonso going around the outside of Antonio Giovinazzi, and you've got Sebastian Vettel, who wants to make a move
02:43around the outside at turn three as well, but I think he might just miss out.
02:46And on the inside of Sebastian Vettel, here comes Pierre Gasly at turn four. You don't often see three cars
02:52so close together through turn four.
02:55And how close was Sebastian Vettel and the Aston Martin to the Alfa Tauri going through there? Either way, he's
03:00managed to get the move done that he really wanted.
03:04Mercedes committing then to the two-stop strategy and pitting right now.
03:09So, has that caught Red Bull unawares? What a strategy move by Lewis Hamilton and by Mercedes. They had two
03:18sets of the medium compound tire at their disposal.
03:21Could be Hungary all over again here.
03:23Hungary 2019, where they've caught them unawares.
03:28And Perez is ahead. Where did the move come from?
03:31That's a long way back then.
03:32Well, Daniel Ricciardo is normally the last of the late breakers. Perez might have broke a little bit later himself
03:37and got his own elbows out there.
03:39Yee-haw. What a move. Look at that.
03:43We're now on board with Carlos Sainz. The car ahead of him, his former teammate, Lando Norris. The car ahead
03:49of Lando Norris, his current teammate, Daniel Ricciardo.
03:52Can Sainz get past? Lando Norris pulls out right at the last moment to the left-hand side, and into
03:58turn one he goes.
04:01Don't hold Lewis up.
04:02Well, don't hold him up. There was an opportunity to let him past.
04:07Yeah.
04:07Valtteri has talked about this before. You know, I'm not overly keen on this whole team orders business.
04:14Valtteri's not in contention necessarily for the win, as he's going to...
04:19No, he's going to turn in on him.
04:21Whoa. He was not willing there at all, was he?
04:25And how much did that cost Hamilton in terms of time to Max Verstappen?
04:29He lost four tenths to him in the middle sector on this lap.
04:33When Lewis Hamilton came out of the pits from his second stop, the gap was over 22 seconds.
04:39Verstappen is struggling here. Hamilton is right on his tail.
04:43If you remember last time out, Hamilton passed Max Verstappen on his way to victory in Portugal.
04:51Is he going to do it again here in Spain seven days later?
04:54Getting showered in rubber from the rear of that Red Bull.
04:57Hamilton goes around the outside at turn one, and the charge is complete.
05:02Hamilton, by making an extra stop, has been given the opportunity by Mercedes to go on and win the race.
05:08And he now leads on lap 60.
05:11There goes Gasly on Kimi Räikkönen. Into turn 10 we go.
05:16Sebastian Vettel takes the very long way around turn 10.
05:20And lost out a bit there as Gasly now round the outside of the right-hander at turn 11.
05:26And he's got much better traction coming out of there. Manages to get past Kimi Räikkönen.
05:30So he's in 12th. Räikkönen now 13th.
05:33They smell a chance of stealing Fernando Alonso.
05:36So here goes Lance Stroll again. He's got a little bit more pace on Fernando Alonso.
05:40And he can get the move done before they arrive into turn one.
05:43Look how Alonso's struggling. Round the outside goes Pierre Gasly as well.
05:47The Spanish Grand Prix is not the favorite home race for Fernando Alonso this afternoon.
05:54As Stroll loses out to Pierre Gasly for a point going into turn one.
06:00Gasly has been moving past Räikkönen.
06:03Then Alonso, who's pitted, has now picked up a world championship point.
06:08And it's the checkered flag as the winner of the Spanish Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton.
06:14Who strengthens his grip then at the top of the table.
06:17Red Bull, they thought they might have had the pace.
06:20Certainly in qualifying it was close, but the margin of victory in the end was 16 seconds between Hamilton and
06:27Verstappen.
06:28It's back to the drawing board.
06:29And that's Milton Keynes once again.
06:32Red Bull have brought the challenge to Mercedes and to Lewis Hamilton this year.
06:36And he's responded with victory once more.
06:39Four races down, it's three wins for Hamilton, one for Verstappen.
06:44And the fizzy stuff I'm sure at Mercedes tastes an awful lot sweeter at the moment than it does at
06:49Red Bull.
06:50label?
06:50Dirmish.
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