Race · Round 4 of 22 · 9 May 2021

2021 Spanish Grand Prix

Sir Lewis Hamilton won for Mercedes from pole at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. 1 of the starters was not classified. With this win, Sir Lewis Hamilton set a new record of 98 championship Grand Prix wins.

Dry, with cloud · High of 21 °C, 0.1 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Circuit de Barcelona-CatalunyaMontmelo, Spain
Winner: Sir Lewis HamiltonMercedes
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Max Verstappen
Entries: 2019 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	F1 W12	1	66	Finished	25
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB16B	2	66	Finished	19	fastest lap
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	F1 W12	3	66	Finished	15
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF21	4	66	Finished	12
5	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	RB16B	8	66	Finished	10
6	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	MCL35M	7	66	Finished	8
7	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	SF21	6	66	Finished	6
8	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL35M	9	65	Finished	4
9	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	A521	5	65	Finished	2
10	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT02	12	65	Finished	1
11	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR21	11	65	Finished	0
12	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	C41	17	65	Finished	0
13	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	AMR21	13	65	Finished	0
14	George Russell	Williams	FW43B	15	65	Finished	0
15	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	C41	14	65	Finished	0
16	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	FW43B	19	65	Finished	0
17	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	A521	10	65	Finished	0
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	VF-21	18	64	Finished	0
19	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	VF-21	20	64	Finished	0
DNF	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	AT02	16	6	Electrical	0

F1DB layout catalunya-5 · 4.675 km · 16 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	1	66
Max Verstappen	2	2	66
Valtteri Bottas	3	3	66
Charles Leclerc	4	4	66
Sergio Perez	8	5	66
Daniel Ricciardo	7	6	66
Carlos Sainz	6	7	66
Lando Norris	9	8	65
Esteban Ocon	5	9	65
Pierre Gasly	12	10	65
Lance Stroll	11	11	65
Kimi Raikkonen	17	12	65
Sebastian Vettel	13	13	65
George Russell	15	14	65
Antonio Giovinazzi	14	15	65
Nicholas Latifi	19	16	65
Fernando Alonso	10	17	65
Mick Schumacher	18	18	64
Nikita Mazepin	20	19	64
Yuki Tsunoda	16	DNF	6

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:18.245	1:17.166	1:16.741	—	0 m	—
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:18.090	1:16.922	1:16.777	+0.036	2 m	+0.036
3	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:18.005	1:17.142	1:16.873	+0.132	8 m	+0.096
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:18.041	1:17.717	1:17.510	+0.769	47 m	+0.637
5	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:18.281	1:17.743	1:17.580	+0.839	51 m	+0.070
6	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:18.205	1:17.656	1:17.620	+0.879	54 m	+0.040
7	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:18.264	1:17.719	1:17.622	+0.881	54 m	+0.002
8	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:18.203	1:17.669	1:17.701	+0.960	58 m	+0.079
9	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:17.821	1:17.696	1:18.010	+1.269	77 m	+0.309
10	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:18.281	1:17.966	1:18.147	+1.406	86 m	+0.137
11	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:18.241	1:17.974	—	—	64 m	—
12	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:18.190	1:17.982	—	—	64 m	—
13	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:18.289	1:18.079	—	—	70 m	—
14	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:18.549	1:18.356	—	—	87 m	—
15	George Russell	Williams	63	1:18.445	1:19.154	—	—	136 m	—
16	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:18.556	—	—	—	44 m	—
17	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:18.917	—	—	—	66 m	—
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:19.117	—	—	—	78 m	—
19	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:19.219	—	—	—	84 m	—
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:19.807	—	—	—	119 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	66	2	28, 42	22.2, 22.1
Max Verstappen	2	66	2	24, 60	23.6, 21.6
Valtteri Bottas	3	66	2	23, 53	22.3, 21.6
Charles Leclerc	4	66	2	28, 58	21.6, 22.3
Sergio Perez	5	66	2	27, 57	22.4, 21.3
Daniel Ricciardo	6	66	2	25, 46	22.4, 21.8
Carlos Sainz	7	66	2	22, 46	21.8, 21.9
Lando Norris	8	65	2	23, 51	21.9, 22.5
Esteban Ocon	9	65	1	23	22.8
Pierre Gasly	10	65	2	18, 47	28.0, 26.1
Lance Stroll	11	65	2	22, 39	21.8, 21.4
Kimi Raikkonen	12	65	1	37	21.6
Sebastian Vettel	13	65	2	21, 38	23.1, 22.0
George Russell	14	65	2	9, 28	23.8, 21.9
Antonio Giovinazzi	15	65	2	8, 39	54.7, 22.9
Nicholas Latifi	16	65	3	9, 27, 50	26.7, 21.4, 22.4
Fernando Alonso	17	65	2	21, 61	22.0, 23.5
Mick Schumacher	18	64	2	23, 50	24.0, 22.3
Nikita Mazepin	19	64	2	22, 42	23.1, 22.5
Yuki Tsunoda	DNF	6	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Max Verstappen	1 · 2	1 · 2	28 · 24	Max Verstappen	Kept their order
Max Verstappen · Valtteri Bottas	2 · 3	2 · 3	24 · 23	Valtteri Bottas	Kept their order
Valtteri Bottas · Charles Leclerc	3 · 4	3 · 4	23 · 28	Valtteri Bottas	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Sergio Perez	4 · 8	4 · 5	28 · 27	Sergio Perez	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · Esteban Ocon	4 · 5	4 · 9	28 · 23	Esteban Ocon	Kept their order
Daniel Ricciardo · Sergio Perez	7 · 8	6 · 5	25 · 27	Daniel Ricciardo	Swapped places
Sergio Perez · Lando Norris	8 · 9	5 · 8	27 · 23	Lando Norris	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Daniel Ricciardo	6 · 7	7 · 6	22 · 25	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Carlos Sainz	5 · 6	9 · 7	23 · 22	Carlos Sainz	Swapped places
Carlos Sainz · Lando Norris	6 · 9	7 · 8	22 · 23	Carlos Sainz	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Lando Norris	5 · 9	9 · 8	23 · 23	Same lap	Swapped places
Lando Norris · Fernando Alonso	9 · 10	8 · 17	23 · 21	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Esteban Ocon · Pierre Gasly	5 · 12	9 · 10	23 · 18	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Lance Stroll · Pierre Gasly	11 · 12	11 · 10	22 · 18	Pierre Gasly	Swapped places
Pierre Gasly · Sebastian Vettel	12 · 13	10 · 13	18 · 21	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Lance Stroll	10 · 11	17 · 11	21 · 22	Fernando Alonso	Swapped places
Lance Stroll · Kimi Raikkonen	11 · 17	11 · 12	22 · 37	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Kimi Raikkonen	13 · 17	13 · 12	21 · 37	Sebastian Vettel	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Mick Schumacher	17 · 18	12 · 18	37 · 23	Mick Schumacher	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · George Russell	13 · 15	13 · 14	21 · 9	George Russell	Kept their order
Sebastian Vettel · Antonio Giovinazzi	13 · 14	13 · 15	21 · 8	Antonio Giovinazzi	Kept their order
Antonio Giovinazzi · George Russell	14 · 15	15 · 14	8 · 9	Antonio Giovinazzi	Swapped places
Antonio Giovinazzi · Nicholas Latifi	14 · 19	15 · 16	8 · 9	Antonio Giovinazzi	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Nicholas Latifi	10 · 19	17 · 16	21 · 9	Nicholas Latifi	Swapped places
Mick Schumacher · Nicholas Latifi	18 · 19	18 · 16	23 · 9	Nicholas Latifi	Swapped places
Nicholas Latifi · Nikita Mazepin	19 · 20	16 · 19	9 · 22	Nicholas Latifi	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Mick Schumacher	10 · 18	17 · 18	21 · 23	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Mick Schumacher · Nikita Mazepin	18 · 20	18 · 19	23 · 22	Nikita Mazepin	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:18.504	—	0 m	—	25
2	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:18.537	+0.033	2 m	+0.033	19
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:18.627	+0.123	7 m	+0.090	22
4	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:18.944	+0.440	26 m	+0.317	24
5	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:18.996	+0.492	29 m	+0.052	25
6	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:19.020	+0.516	31 m	+0.024	22
7	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:19.062	+0.558	33 m	+0.042	26
8	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:19.234	+0.730	43 m	+0.172	24
9	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:19.349	+0.845	50 m	+0.115	17
10	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:19.429	+0.925	55 m	+0.080	25
11	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:19.669	+1.165	69 m	+0.240	22
12	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:19.681	+1.177	70 m	+0.012	25
13	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:19.694	+1.190	71 m	+0.013	23
14	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:19.732	+1.228	73 m	+0.038	24
15	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:19.950	+1.446	86 m	+0.218	25
16	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:20.270	+1.766	105 m	+0.320	25
17	Roy Nissany (never started a Grand Prix)	Williams	45	1:20.700	+2.196	131 m	+0.430	23
18	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:20.766	+2.262	135 m	+0.066	23
19	Robert Kubica	Sauber	88	1:21.887	+3.383	201 m	+1.121	13
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:21.976	+3.472	207 m	+0.089	22

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing. † Drove in practice and never started a Grand Prix.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:18.170	—	0 m	—	32
2	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:18.309	+0.139	8 m	+0.139	31
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:18.335	+0.165	10 m	+0.026	28
4	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:18.466	+0.296	18 m	+0.131	29
5	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:18.518	+0.348	21 m	+0.052	30
6	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:18.593	+0.423	25 m	+0.075	32
7	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:18.619	+0.449	27 m	+0.026	30
8	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:18.674	+0.504	30 m	+0.055	30
9	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:18.785	+0.615	37 m	+0.111	26
10	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:18.918	+0.748	45 m	+0.133	23
11	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:18.947	+0.777	46 m	+0.029	30
12	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:19.092	+0.922	55 m	+0.145	28
13	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:19.122	+0.952	57 m	+0.030	29
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:19.134	+0.964	58 m	+0.012	29
15	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:19.195	+1.025	61 m	+0.061	28
16	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:19.213	+1.043	62 m	+0.018	30
17	George Russell	Williams	63	1:19.957	+1.787	107 m	+0.744	29
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:20.046	+1.876	112 m	+0.089	26
19	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:20.326	+2.156	129 m	+0.280	30
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:20.753	+2.583	154 m	+0.427	27

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	33	1:17.835	—	0 m	—	11
2	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	44	1:18.070	+0.235	14 m	+0.235	14
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:18.308	+0.473	28 m	+0.238	17
4	Carlos Sainz	Ferrari	55	1:18.410	+0.575	35 m	+0.102	18
5	Valtteri Bottas	Mercedes	77	1:18.423	+0.588	35 m	+0.013	15
6	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:18.494	+0.659	40 m	+0.071	14
7	Pierre Gasly	Scuderia AlphaTauri	10	1:18.535	+0.700	42 m	+0.041	17
8	Daniel Ricciardo	McLaren	3	1:18.582	+0.747	45 m	+0.047	21
9	Kimi Raikkonen	Sauber	7	1:18.597	+0.762	46 m	+0.015	18
10	Sergio Perez	Red Bull Racing	11	1:18.606	+0.771	46 m	+0.009	16
11	Fernando Alonso	Alpine	14	1:18.662	+0.827	50 m	+0.056	18
12	Yuki Tsunoda	Scuderia AlphaTauri	22	1:18.673	+0.838	50 m	+0.011	21
13	Esteban Ocon	Alpine	31	1:18.700	+0.865	52 m	+0.027	15
14	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:18.877	+1.042	63 m	+0.177	18
15	George Russell	Williams	63	1:19.005	+1.170	70 m	+0.128	17
16	Antonio Giovinazzi	Sauber	99	1:19.214	+1.379	83 m	+0.209	19
17	Sebastian Vettel	Aston Martin	5	1:19.363	+1.528	92 m	+0.149	18
18	Nicholas Latifi	Williams	6	1:19.392	+1.557	94 m	+0.029	16
19	Mick Schumacher	Haas F1 Team	47	1:19.999	+2.164	130 m	+0.607	17
20	Nikita Mazepin	Haas F1 Team	9	1:20.237	+2.402	144 m	+0.238	15

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

The cars in this race

The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.

A photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.

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Where this comes from

Round: 4 of 2021
Grand Prix: Spanish Grand Prix
Dates: 9 May 2021
Layout raced: With Turn 10 chicane · 4.675 km · 16 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Mercedes
Entrant: Mercedes
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.