Hamilton beats Vettel in thrilling Spanish GP
Lewis Hamilton caught and passed Sebastian Vettel to win a thrilling Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona and reduce his championship deficit to six points after five rounds.
After racing each other by proxy for the first four grands prix, Hamilton and Vettel finally went wheel-to-wheel for the lead in Spain and the resulting race did not disappoint. The race swung back and forth between the two, with Vettel beating Hamilton off the line before Mercedes brought Hamilton back into the race on an alternate strategy.
Hamilton still had to do his passing on the track, however, and did so on lap 44 with a move around the outside of Turn 1. Six laps earlier the pair had banged wheels as Vettel emerged from his first pit stop alongside Hamilton, but both drivers were happy to joke about the incident after the chequered flag. It was also a race in which Mercedes and Ferrari both lost a car to retirement, allowing Daniel Ricciardo to take third for Red Bull despite finishing 72 seconds off the pace of the front two.
Force India picked up a healthy 18 points in fourth and fifth ahead of Nico Hulkenberg in the Renault, who scored his third consecutive points finish in a row. Pascal Wehrlein finished seventh on the road for Sauber but dropped to eighth with a five second penalty for driving the wrong side of a bollard on the pit lane entrance.
He still secured the Swiss team’s first points of the season with an impressive one-stop strategy, but dropped to eighth in the final classification behind Carlos Sainz. Daniil Kvyat and Romain Grosjean took the last points on offer in ninth and tenth.
POSTED BY:OPUOMONI PRIYE
DATE:05/15/2017
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