Spanish Grand Prix LIVE: Lewis Hamilton wins to retake F1 championship lead ahead of Valtteri Bottas
Follow lap-by-lap coverage of the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona
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Your support makes all the difference.Re-live the latest action from the Spanish Grand Prix where Lewis Hamilton completed a dominant lights-to-flag victory to retake the lead in the drivers' championship.
Hamilton got away much better than Mercedes teammate and pole-sitter Valtteri Bottas, who went into Turn One alongside Hamilton and the Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel. With Vettel pushed wide, Max Verstappen was able to slide through and take third, with the Red Bull driver remaining rather unchallenged for the rest of the Grand Prix.
A late safety car bunched the field up after Lando Norris and Lance Stroll crashed at Turn Two, taking both drivers out of the race as the only retirements of the Grand Prix. However, Hamilton powered away at the restart and claimed the extra point for fastest lap on his way to victory. Re-live the live updates below.
What time does it start?
The Spanish Grand Prix starts at 2:10pm BST on Sunday 12 May.
Where can I watch it?
The race will be shown live on Sky Sports F1 from 12.30pm. Highlights will be shown on Channel 4 at 7pm.
Starting grid
1 Valtteri Bottas (Fin) Mercedes GP 1min 15.406secs
2 Lewis Hamilton (Gbr) Mercedes GP 1:16.040
3 Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Ferrari 1:16.272
4 Max Verstappen (Ned) Red Bull 1:16.357
5 Charles Leclerc (Mon) Ferrari 1:16.588
6 Pierre Gasly (Fra) Red Bull 1:16.708
7 Romain Grosjean (Fra) Haas F1 1:16.911
8 Kevin Magnussen (Den) Haas F1 1:16.922
9 Daniil Kvyat (Rus) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:17.573
10 Lando Norris (Gbr) McLaren 1:17.338
11 Alexander Albon (Tha) Scuderia Toro Rosso 1:17.445
12 Carlos Sainz (Spa) McLaren 1:17.599
13 Daniel Ricciardo (Aus) Renault 1:18.106 (three-place penalty)
14 Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Alfa Romeo Racing 1:17.788
15 Sergio Perez (Mex) Racing Point 1:17.886
16 Nico Hulkenberg (Ger) Renault 1:18.404
17 Lance Stroll (Can) Racing Point 1:18.471
18 Antonio Giovinazzi (Ita) Alfa Romeo Racing 1:18.664
19 Robert Kubica (Pol) Williams 1:20.254
20 George Russell (Gbr) Williams 1:19.072 (five-place penalty)
Lap 26: Vettel catches the back of Magnussen, who does him a favour by jumping into the pits before he has to overtake. Leclerc pits next time by, and it's a slow stop again from Ferrari onto the hard compound tyres, which is baffling to say the least. Again it's the left-rear that;s slow on, and comes out just in front of teammate Vettel.
Lap 27: Bottas pits first. With Hamilton holding such a large advantage, Mercedes feel safe to stop Bottas and he comes out only a second in front of Verstappen. That's a great start to Verstappen's second stint as he was about eight seconds behind before the stop, but you;d expect the Red Bull to pull away out in front.
Lap 28: The leader pits! A 2/6 stop for Hamilton and he's back out in clean air and with the length of the start-finish straight to Bottas, who is 11 seconds behind. He'll try to go to the end on these tyres.
Lap 30: Right, so where are we? Hamilton has an 8.4s lead and looks to be in race management mode, with Bottas as expected pulling away from Verstappen to solidify second place. Vettel is right on the back of Leclerc and is setting very fast lap times, and you'd think that he will get the call to let Vettel back past just like in China.
Lap 32: Vettel has the gap down to a second, and of course they're on different tyre compounds too as Vettel is on the mediums compared to Leclerc's soft. It's worth pointing out that such is the gap that the Mercedes' have, they could pit again and come out in front of both Vettel and Leclerc while Verstappen has to stop again anyway as he's still on the softs.
Lap 33: Vettel makes his move on Leclerc, and the door is firmly shut as Leclerc goes defensive into turn one. That's a controversial one as Vettel is having to fight Leclerc with no pit orders coming from the pit wall, given they are 11 seconds off third-placed man Verstappen.
Lap 37: There's the switch, Coming out of Turn Four - which is a strange place to do so - Leclerc pulls aside and Vettel goes through, Confusion on the radios sees Leclerc told they're on the same strategy and Vettel told the opposite, and given they are on different tyres, it would suggest the latter.
Lap 40: 26 laps to go and Hamilton is maintaining the gap to Bottas at nine seconds, with both unlikely to pit again. However, Hamilton has reported in that he is not sure the tyres will hold on for the duration, and with Verstappen also set to pit again, this could yet get interesting.
Lap 41: Vettel pits again for the second time. This time it's a clean stopp and an impressive 2.2s stop, and he's on a fresh set of medium tyres to return to the track just behind the second Red Bull of Pierre Gasly in sixth place.
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