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 |
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|
– |
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|
1982 |
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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 |
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– |
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1955 |
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1954 |
Mike Hawthorn |
Ferrari |
Pedralbes |
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1953 |
Not held |
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– |
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1952 |
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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 |
|
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Ayrton Senna |
1986, 1989 |
|
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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:-
- 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 11thORS’
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 |
