00:00And the Spanish Grand Prix is underway, we're racing to turn number one, Piastri is gone, and it's Verstappen who
00:06is moving in on Lando Norris for second place, George Russell trying to pinch to the inside, Max Verstappen is
00:12going to roar around Lando Norris and take second place in the Grand Prix, down to third goes Lando Norris,
00:17Oscar Piastri leads, Antonelli was off the road and now rejoins, and it looked like Lewis Hamilton was able to
00:23sweep around the outside and get up to fourth, he did so, Russell was pinched to the inside in the
00:28exact opposite of a year ago,
00:29and it's Piastri, Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton and Russell, both Ferraris get past George Russell on the opening lap, Charles Leclerc
00:37following through Lewis Hamilton, hold on a minute, hold on a minute, Fernando Alonso trying to go wheel to wheel,
00:43Isaac Hadjar, Fernando Alonso racing at a part of the circuit where you'd never normally see it, Hadjar was ahead
00:49of Alonso going into that technical section, and the home favourite was trying everything to soar away at the back
00:55of the racing balls to get through,
00:57but instead he's left himself vulnerable to Hülkenberg, who's got a run on the home hero, Piastri, Verstappen, Norris, Hamilton,
01:03Leclerc, then Russell and Antonelli, and through goes Hülkenberg, up to the top ten, Alonso trying to be audacious, but
01:11it's cost him a place.
01:12Yeah, you can understand why he went all in there as he looks for a wide other side, I don't
01:18believe I've just seen that.
01:20He wasn't going to take it lying down, Hülkenberg retakes the position, Fernando Alonso putting on fireworks for the home
01:28fans, he tried to power around the outside of turn three.
01:31Launched his start beautifully, look at the Ferraris behind, they were already wheel to wheel as they're running, and then
01:38the action at the front, George Russell looking and thinking about the inside,
01:42as Max sweeps it around Lando Norris, and Lando's heart would have sunk at that point.
01:47Not a great reaction and getaway for Lewis Hamilton, and look how close the Ferraris were, we saw Leclerc's wheels
01:54come up alongside Lewis Hamilton,
01:57and then Lewis slips it around the outside of George, who was blocked in on the inside behind Lando.
02:03Their nose to tail on the track right now, and they were so close to touching because Leclerc got a
02:08fantastic launch,
02:09and was straight between Antonelli and Hamilton immediately, as Lawson has a little touch as well,
02:15I think he'll have got away with that at the start of the race, but yeah, Leclerc's reactions were just
02:19blistering as he came through the Mercedes and his team mate.
02:22We're on board here with Hulkenberg, cautious on the brakes, avoiding Konstantino, but we saw as Lawson touched,
02:30then he had no choice but to take to the runoff area.
02:36Across the line we go, Max Verstappen checking the left-hand mirror, Lando Norris coming closer and closer with the
02:42DRS,
02:43with the speed, slam dunk move into turn number one, the McLaren gets past the Red Bull, Norris gets past
02:49Verstappen,
02:50and it's a McLaren 1-2 at the Spanish Grand Prix.
02:54This is Fernando Alonso locking up and going off into the gravel.
03:00Very unusual to see a mistake from Fernando.
03:03No further action, he can retire from the Grand Prix, his torturous run is complete,
03:08and it's only the second time this season Alex Albon has failed to score points in a Formula One Grand
03:14Prix.
03:16Oh, contact again! Liam Lawson with more of it into turn one!
03:22Yeah, so this looks like a fairly late lunge, and, well, look, for me, that was too little, too late,
03:28and I think that the Haas, at a certain point, you have to stop looking in your mirrors and start
03:33looking at the apex,
03:34so let's see it from this angle, and see if it's the case, he's got the DRS, yeah, look,
03:38I think that was a very optimistic move from Liam, where he's rather hoping that the Haas will go,
03:43oh, there's a car there, I'm going to suddenly move myself and give them space.
03:49Third stop for Max.
03:51They tried something different, they went to the three-stop, they tried to get in McLaren's head,
03:55he closed the gap down, got to a buffer of about four seconds, and Verstappen goes to the new rubber
04:01first.
04:02Oh, that's a tough one there!
04:04He's got his teammate ahead of him, who will leap out of the way best he can, and he does
04:09so,
04:09so that's all worked out rather nicely.
04:11See, Tsunoda's trying to keep Ocon at bay, and they're both a lap down.
04:14You can see, Fiastri's gone past, and that's the problem with cars battling in front of you,
04:19because now Norris is going to be losing time, these two having their own race,
04:22this is exactly the risk we were talking about before,
04:25and as they do that, Norris is losing time, hand over fist,
04:28and Verstappen will need just the tiniest sniff to get involved.
04:33It's cars all over the road, but as we get through Norris' gap,
04:38look at it, it's down to four tenths of a second.
04:44And that's what he thought of it.
04:48Yellow flag out.
04:50Oh, off the road goes Kimi Antonelli!
04:54Yeah, that engine is a telltale sign that it's not a mistake, it's a technical.
04:59There are facilities to recover the car, but a full safety car has been deployed.
05:05Fiastri pits, Norris in as well, and Verstappen comes into the pit lane.
05:09McLaren have maintained the 1-2 in the Grand Prix.
05:13Uh, what? What? What is his tire?
05:17Oh, that's the hard tire, Max.
05:19Why? Why aren't we on the hard?
05:22That was the only option.
05:24Back to green flag racing.
05:27What sort of slipstream can Lando Norris get with his teammates ahead of Verstappen?
05:32And he drops it, and Charles Leclerc has to wait for the star finish line,
05:35and does wait for the star finish line to improve up to third position.
05:39Verstappen tried to fire up the hard tire, couldn't do so.
05:42Charles Leclerc goes through.
05:44Can George Russell make it by?
05:46Verstappen jumps over the road.
05:47It's Piastri, Norris.
05:49Charles Leclerc is third.
05:52There's this.
05:53Oh, my word.
05:54And Charles Leclerc had to wait for the star finish line,
05:57and there's the contact at high speed.
05:58He then checks the left-hand mirror.
06:01Oh, my word.
06:02That was nearly Grand Prix over.
06:03That was absolutely sensational car control for him to keep it out of the barriers.
06:08That would have been an almighty crash.
06:10There is side-to-side contact here.
06:12Now, watch this.
06:13An enormous speed between the Ferrari and the Red Bull.
06:16And they banged wheels, approaching 190 miles per hour.
06:21Yeah, Verstappen not moving at all.
06:23Leclerc shifting to the left-hand side.
06:25There's a slight touch, and there's another touch then,
06:27as Russell chanced his arm down the inside.
06:30I think they've all got away with it.
06:32Max, can you let Russell through, please?
06:34Let Russell through.
06:35No, I must have hurt.
06:37My advice is to let him through.
06:39Wait, I must have hurt.
06:40He just ran me off the road.
06:41But that's the rules.
06:43Oh, contact!
06:44Max Verstappen into the side of George Russell.
06:48We were hearing the advice.
06:50Advice not taken.
06:51Duh.
06:53Don't know, mate.
06:54Just passed it.
06:56So Max has a slide, and then looks like he's going to let George through.
07:00George is then on the outside, and wham!
07:03Big hit into the side of the Mercedes.
07:06So he's behind, and then just doesn't turn.
07:09It has to be deliberate.
07:10It has to be.
07:11And Hulkenberg has a run on Lewis Hamilton.
07:15Sauber, that have only scored points once this year, in the wheel tracks of a Ferrari.
07:19And he's going through to the inside to take P6.
07:24What is going on right now?
07:27A brilliant drive from Hulkenberg.
07:30And Alonso has got past, Alonso has got past Lawson, and he's finally going to get a point.
07:37What a Grand Prix finish.
07:38Drama everywhere you look.
07:40No dramas for Oscar Piastri, who wins his fifth Grand Prix of the year.
07:46Piastri takes the Spanish Grand Prix.
07:49It's a McLaren 1-2.
07:51Checkered flag.
07:52What a race.
07:53What a weekend, mate.
07:54Really good.
07:54Yep, when he said that FaceTuff last year this weekend was going to be awesome, he went wrong.
08:01In a race where so many were speculating we could have a resetting of the order, Papaya rules once again.
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