Overall the race itself was enjoyable and entertaining race to watch. Lewis Hamilton was on pole for Sunday's race. At the start of the Spanish Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel had a lightning start and took the lead and took a strong lead over Hamilton. By halfway thorough the race Hamilton started to reduced the gap to Vettel with a different tyre strategy to the race leader. By lap 44, Hamilton took the lead overtaking Vettel at the end of the main straight and stayed there to the end to conclude with a race win in this seasons Spanish Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton's second race win of the season.
While, Sebastian Vettel finished second place in the Ferrari, Vettel was three and half seconds behind Hamilton at the end.
Meanwhile, Daniel Ricciardo finished in third place in the Red Bull to complete the podium, Ricciardo was seventy-five seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the sixty-six lap race.
Highlights of the race below, enjoy.
Rate the Teams and Drivers
Mercedes - 8
Lewis Hamilton - 9 (pole, fastest lap and race win)
Valtteri Bottas - 7 (DNF, Power unit)
Red Bull Racing - 7
Daniel Ricciardo - 8 (finished third)
Max Verstappen - 7 (DNF, Collision with Bottas)
Ferrari - 8
Sebastian Vettel - 8 (finished second)
Kimi Räikkönen - 7 (DNF, Collision with Bottas)
Force India - 9
Sergio Pérez - 9 (finished fourth, lap down)
Esteban Ocon - 9 (finished fifth, lap down)
Williams - 4
Felipe Massa - 5 (finished thirteenth, two laps down)
Lance Stroll - 4 (finished sixteenth, two laps down)
McLaren - 5
Fernando Alonso - 7 (finished twelfth, two laps down)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 4 (DNF, Collision with Massa)
Toro Rosso - 7
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 8 (finished seventh, lap down)
Daniil Kvyat - 6 (finished ninth, lap down)
Haas - 6
Romain Grosjean - 6 (finished tenth, lap down)
Kevin Magnussen - 6 (finished fourteenth, two laps down)
Renault - 7
Nico Hülkenberg - 9 (finished sixth, lap down)
Jolyon Palmer - 5 (finished fifteenth, two laps down)
Sauber - 8
Marcus Ericsson - 7 (finished eleventh, two laps down)
Pascal Wehrlein - 9 (finished eighth, lap down)
Next stop Monte Carlo for the Monaco Grand Prix in two weeks time.
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