Your guide to the 2017 Spanish Grand Prix

The Spanish Grand Prix is a Formula One race currently held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Barcelona. The race is one of the oldest in the world still contested, celebrating its centenary in 2013.

The race had modest beginnings as a production car race. Interrupted by the First World War, the race waited a decade for its second running before becoming a staple of the European calendar. It was promoted to the European Championship in 1935 before the Spanish Civil War brought an end to racing. The race was successfully revived in 1967 and has been a regular part of the Formula One World Championship since 1968 at a variety of venues.

Spanish Prix, Round five of the 2017 Formula 1 season

Circuit Name: Circuit de Barcelona – Catalunya

Race Laps: 66

Circuit Length: 4.655 km (2.892 mi)

Race Length: 307.104 km (190.825 mi)

Number of corners: 16 (9 Right, 7 Left)

DRS Zone: Two Zones (Zone 1 between turns 9 and 10, Zone 2 Start/Finish Line Between Turn 16 and 1)

Circuit Direction: Clockwise

Pole Position 2016: Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes 1:22.000

Track Record (During the race): 1:21.670 Kimi Raikkonen – Ferrari 2008

Barcelona Circuit

 

Pirelli used compounds

For the first 5 round of the 2017 Formula 1 season, Pirelli will supply all teams with the same sets of compounds, following the introduction on the new wider and bigger tires.

Compounds sets will be as follows:

7 of the softest (P Zero Yellow Soft here)

5 of the middle (Zero White Medium here)

2 of the Hardest (P Zero Orange Hard here)

Tyres that must be available (one of them to be used) at some point in the race:

One set of P Zero Orange Hard

One set of P Zero Yellow soft

Tyres assigned for Q3 in qualifying:                     

One set of P Zero Red Super-Soft

THE CIRCUIT FROM A TYRE POINT OF VIEW:

 

MARIO ISOLA – HEAD OF CAR RACING

“This is the last race where allocations are fixed for every team: as of Monaco, drivers are making their own choices about the quantities of each compound they would like to nominate. While Barcelona is a well-known venue, aerodynamic evolution of the cars, enhanced by the latest upgrade packages brought to Spain, mean that performance is increased but degradation levels could also be higher compared to testing. We can additionally expect weather conditions considerably warmer than February.”

 

BARCELONA MINIMUM STARTING PRESSURES (SLICKS)

 

EOS CAMBER LIMIT

 

 

Spanish Grand Prix Winners 1951 – 2016

 

Year	Driver	Constructor	Circuit
2016	Max Vertappen	Red Bull-TAG Heur	Catalunya
2015	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
2014	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
2013	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari
2012	Pastor Maldonado	Williams–Renault
2011	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull–Renault
2010	Mark Webber	Red Bull–Renault
2009	Jenson Button	Brawn–Mercedes
2008	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari
2007	Felipe Massa	Ferrari
2006	Fernando Alonso	Renault
2005	Kimi Raikkonen	McLaren–Mercedes
2004	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2003	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2002	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2001	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
2000	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren–Mercedes
1999	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren–Mercedes
1998	Mika Hakkinen	McLaren–Mercedes
1997	Jacques Villeneuve	Williams–Renault
1996	Michael Schumacher	Ferrari
1995	Michael Schumacher	Benetton–Renault
1994	Damon Hill	Williams–Renault
1993	Alain Prost	Williams–Renault
1992	Nigel Mansell	Williams–Renault
1991	Nigel Mansell	Williams–Renault
1990	Alain Prost	Ferrari	Jerez
1989	Ayrton Senna	McLaren–Honda
1988	Alain Prost	McLaren–Honda
1987	Nigel Mansell	Williams–Honda
1986	Ayrton Senna	Lotus–Renault
1985	Not held
–
1982
1981	Gilles Villeneuve	Ferrari	Jarama
1979	Patrick Depailler	Ligier–Ford
1978	Mario Andretti	Lotus–Ford
1977	Mario Andretti	Lotus–Ford
1976	James Hunt	McLaren–Ford
1975	Jochen Mass	McLaren–Ford	Montjuïc
1974	Niki Lauda	Ferrari	Jarama
1973	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus–Ford	Montjuïc
1972	Emerson Fittipaldi	Lotus–Ford	Jarama
1971	Jackie Stewart	Tyrrell–Ford	Montjuïc
1970	Jackie Stewart	March–Ford	Jarama
1969	Jackie Stewart	Matra–Ford	Montjuïc
1968	Graham Hill	Lotus–Ford	Jarama
1966	Not held
–
1955
1954	Mike Hawthorn	Ferrari	Pedralbes
1953	Not held
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1952
1951	Juan Manuel Fangio	Alfa Romeo	Pedralbes

 

Multiple Winners (Drivers)

 

# Wins	Driver	Years won
6	Michael Schumacher	1995, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
3	Jackie Stewart	1969, 1970, 1971
	Nigel Mansell	1987, 1991, 1992
	Alain Prost	1988, 1990, 1993
	Mika Häkkinen	1998, 1999, 2000
2	Emerson Fittipaldi	1972, 1973
	Mario Andretti	1977, 1978
	Ayrton Senna	1986, 1989
	Kimi Raikkonen	2005, 2008
	Fernando Alonso	2006, 2013

 

 

Multiple Winners (Constructors)

 

# Wins	Constructor	Years won
12	Ferrari	1954, 1974, 1981, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2013
8	McLaren	1975, 1976, 1988, 1989, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2005
7	Williams	1987, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2012
6	Lotus	1968, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1986
4	Mercedes	1934, 1935, 2014, 2015
3	Red Bull	2010, 2011, 2016

 

 

Numbers and Facts

 

Most wins (driver) 6 Michael Schumacher 1995 – 1996 – 2001 – 2002 –2003 – 2004

Most wins (constructor) 12 Ferrari 1954 – 74 – 81 – 90 – 96 – 2001 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 07 – 08 – 13

Wins from pole position 25, Recent 2015

Lowest grid for past winner 11 Jochen Mass – 1975

Most recent 1-2 finish 2015 Mercedes (Nico Rosberg- Lewis Hamilton)

Most emphatic win 2 laps 1969 – Jackie Stewart-Bruce McLaren (Montjuic Park)

Closest winning margin 0.014 1986 – Ayrton Senna-Nigel Mansell (Jerez)

Rain-affected races 3 1972 – 1992 – 1996

Safety Car-affected races 5 2003 – 2005 – 2008 – 2009 – 2016

Red Flag (and result declared) races 1, 1975

2-hour rule shortened races 0

Fastest race 2006, 66 laps @1hr 26m 21.759s

Slowest race 1954, 80 laps@ 3hr 13m 52.1s (Pedrables)

Most pole positions (driver) 7 Michael Schumacher 1994 – 1995 – 2000 – 2001 – 2002 – 2003 – 2004

Most pole positions (constructor) 13 Ferrari 1951 – 68 – 71 – 72 – 74 – 75 – 2000 – 01 – 02 – 03 – 04 – 07 – 08

 

What Happened last race here?

Nico Rosberg was the defending race winner and entered the round with a 43 point lead over teammate Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ Championship.

Hamilton took pole position during qualifying, ahead of teammate Rosberg and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo.

 

Max Verstappen won the race upon his debut for his new team Red Bull, having swapped his Toro Rosso seat with Daniil Kvyat ahead of the event.

At the age of 18 years and 228 days, Verstappen became the youngest ever winner, the youngest driver to score a podium finish and the youngest ever to lead a lap of a Formula 1 race, breaking the previous records held by Sebastian Vettel.

In the process, he also became the first Dutchman to win a Grand Prix and the first Grand Prix winner born in the 1990s.

Both Mercedes drivers retired from the race following a collision with each other on the first lap, thus marking the first Mercedes double retirement since the 2011 Australian Grand Prix and the first time the team had not scored a point since the 2012 United States Grand Prix.

 

2016 Race Classification

Pos.	Driver	Constructor	Time/Retired	Grid
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	1:41:40.017	4
2	Kimi Roikkonen	Ferrari	+0.616	5
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	+5.581	6
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer	+43.95	3
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	+45.271	7
6	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+1:01.395	8
7	Sergio Pérez	Force India-Mercedes	+1:19.538	9
8	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	+1:20.707	18
9	Jenson Button	McLaren-Honda	+1 Lap	12
10	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	+1 Lap	13
11	Esteban Gutiérrez	Haas-Ferrari	+1 Lap	16
12	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber-Ferrari	+1 Lap	19
13	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	+1 Lap	17
14	Felipe Nasr	Sauber-Ferrari	+1 Lap	20
15	Kevin Magnussen	Renault	+1 Lap	15
16	Pascal Wehrlein	MRT-Mercedes	+1 Lap	21
17	Rio Haryanto	MRT-Mercedes	+1 Lap	22
Ret	Romain Grosjean	Haas-Ferrari	Brakes	14
Ret	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Honda	Power unit	10
Ret	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	Oil leak	11
Ret	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	Collision	1
Ret	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	Collision	2

 

Did you know?

DRIVERS

✪ Sebastian Vettel is looking to take pole two events running for the first time since he took pole for both the 2013 US and Brazilian Grand Prix while at Red Bull

✪ Vettel has still not won back-to-back Grand Prix since he won the 2013 Brazilian Grand Prix. That race ended a 9-race run of victories that started in Belgium, (BEL, ITA, SIN, KOR, JAP, IND, ABU, USA, BRA)

✪ Lewis Hamilton remains just 5 pole positions from equalling Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 68 F1 GP pole positions. Since he has been at Mercedes he has

taken pole 37 times already. That is over 40% of all races he’s started for the team (37/ 80 = 46.3%). He is also just 2 behind Ayrton Senna’s (second-best) career total of

65 pp’s

✪ Hamilton in Bahrain scored his 107th F1 podium to beat Alain Prost’s 106 F1 podiums. Only Michael Schumacher has achieved more F1 podiums (155)

✪ Hamilton has won (54) 28.1% of all GP he’s started (192) and is in the top 10 drivers races to win ratio of all-time. This is how he compares:-

1. Fangio 47.0%, 2. Ascari 40.6%, 3. Clark 34.7%, 4. M. Schumacher 29.7%, 5. Hamilton 28.1%, 6. Ja. Stewart 27.2%, 7. Prost 25.6%, 8. A. Senna 25.5%,

9= Vettel 24.2% (44/ 182), 9= S. Moss 24.2%

✪ Hamilton has now led 102 different F1 Grand Prix races. Only Michael Schumacher has led more (142)

✪ Valtteri Bottas’s race win in Russia also marked the 50th Grand Prix in which he has finished in the top 10 and scored points. To date, he has started 81 Grand Prix

✪ Bottas’s 12th F1 podium beat Chris Amon’s 11. It was also his first win, something that unfortunately eluded Amon who is widely recognised as being the best F1 driver

never to win a F1 World Championship-qualifying Grand Prix (World Championship-qualifying is important for context here because Amon did win the F1 nonchampionship

Argentinian Grand Prix in 1971)

✪ The race marks the first anniversary of Max Verstappen’s first Grand Prix win. He has until the Singapore Grand Prix in September to win a second while still a teenager.

(20th birthday on September 30th 2017). He is of course, so far the only teenager in F1 history to win a F1 World Championship Grand Prix and could still become the only

teenager to take pole position too for a F1 World Championship Grand Prix. Max and Ricardo Rodriguez who started the 1961 Italian Grand Prix from P2 in his Ferrari

when aged 19 years and 208 days are the only teenage drivers to date to have started a Grand Prix from the front row (Max the youngest, at the 2016 Belgian Grand Prix

where he started P2 he was aged18 years and 333 days

✪ Sergio Perez needs just 1 more podium to become the Mexican driver with the most F1 podiums (currently =1 with Pedro Rodriguez on 7)

✪ Fernando Alonso is the only driver this season yet to be around for the waving of the chequered flag. If he fails to finish the race in Spain his next opportunity to try and

do so will be in Canada on June 11^thORS’

 

CONSTRUCTORS

✪ Mercedes in Spain will be aiming to lockout the front row for the 49th time. The all-time record is 62 and is jointly held by McLaren and Williams

✪ Mercedes’s next fastest lap of the race will be the marque’s 50th as a F1 World Championship constructor

✪ Last year’s race here was only the second time since Mercedes’s return to F1 in 2010 that both cars entered have failed to finish and Mercedes has not posted a double race retirement since, indeed the only non finish being in Malaysia late last year when a blown engine side-lined Hamilton. The first two-car race retirement of the

marque’s modern era came in Australia in 2011 when both cars were eliminated in (separate) collisions. If you want to be really clever, you could say that Spain 2016 and Australia 2011 are the only occasions in which all the Mercedes cars that started a World Championship Grand Prix failed to be classified as having finished the race.

✪ Ferrari last season was the only team to score championship points at all 21 events

✪ Ferrari will be looking to score consecutive pole positions for the first time since Fernando Alonso took pole for the Scuderia at the 2012 British and German Grand Prix

and score a consecutive front row lock-out for the first time since Michael Schumacher and Felipe Massa lock-out the front row for the 2006 US and French Grand Prix

✪ Red Bull has achieved a podium result for at least one of their drivers podium in 100 different F1 Grand Prix

✪ The current Williams team traces its origins back to the setting up of Williams Grand Prix Engineering by Frank Williams and Patrick Head in 1977. This year the team will

be celebrating its 40th anniversary. The team began by running a March for Belgian Patrick Neve who sadly died earlier is year and later in 1978, became a constructor

running a single FW06 car for Alan Jones. In 1979 the team expanded to 2 cars with Clay Regazzoni joining Jones. Regazzoni won Williams’s first Grand Prix, at Silversone

in 1979 while Jones claimed Williams’s first driver’s and first constructor’s titles in 1980. Frank Williams had made his first forays into F1 in 1969, running a Brabham for

Piers Courage. Campaigns with De Tomaso, private March’s, with his own cars and ex-works Heskeths latterly in conjunction with Canadian-Austrian entrepreneur Walter

Wolf followed but it wasn’t until Williams teamed up with Head and started a new team all over again that Williams’s F1 fortunes really took off

✪ Williams has not led a Grand Prix since leading the British Grand Prix 18 months ago

✪ Mercedes, Ferrari and Force India are the only constructors to have finished both cars in each of the 4 Grand Prix so far this season

 

SPANISH GRAND PRIX

✪ Mercedes with pole can equal Ferrari’s all-time record of 5 consecutive Spanish Grand Prix pole positions. Ferrari has the most Spanish Grand Prix poles (13) and also the most at the Circuit De Catalunya (7). The next most here is 5 by Williams and the 4 by both McLaren and Mercedes

✪ The race is likely to be the 75th Grand Prix contested by Fernando Alonso since he last won (Spain 2013) and the 50th Grand Prix since he led a race or scored a podium

result (Hungary 2014)

 

Driver’s Championship standing

POS	DRIVER	Constructor	POINTS
1	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	86
2	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	73
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	63
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	49
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull/Renault	35
6	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull/Renault	22
7	Sergio Perez	Force India/Mercedes	22
8	Felipe Massa	Williams/Mercedes	18
9	Carlos Sainz	Toro Rosso/Renault	11
10	Esteban Ocon	Force India/Mercedes	9
11	Nico Hulkenberg	Renault	6
12	Romain Grosjean	Haas/Ferrari	4
13	Kevin Magnussen	Haas/Ferrari	4
14	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso/Renault	2
15	Pascal Wehrlein	Sauber/Ferrari	0
16	Lance Stroll	Williams/Mercedes	0
17	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber/Ferrari	0
18	Jolyon Palmer	Renault	0
19	Stoffel Vandoorne	McLaren/Honda	0
20	Fernando Alonso	McLaren/Honda	0
21	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber/Ferrari	0

 Constructor’s Championship standing

POS	CONSTRUCTOR	POINTS
1	Mercedes	136
2	Ferrari	135
3	Red Bull/Renault	57
4	Force India/Mercedes	31
5	Williams/Mercedes	18
6	Toro Rosso/Renault	13
7	Haas/Ferrari	8
8	Renault	6
9	Sauber/Ferrari	0
10	McLaren/Honda	0

 

Driver’s penalty points:

Driver	Penalty points
Jolyon Palmer	7
Sebastian Vettel	6
Daniil Kvyat	5
Carlos Sainz	5
Kevin Magnussen	5
Nico Hulkenberg	4
Pascal Wehrlein	4
Esteban Ocon	4
Sergio Perez	3
Romain Grosjean	3
Valtteri Bottas	2
Kimi Raikkonen	2
Marcus Erricson	2
Felipe Massa	2
Lewis Hamilton	2
Max Verstappen	1
Stoffel Vandoorne	1