2026 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix - Barcelona, June 12 - 14

[F1subman25]

Great race, great Winner!

The worst race of the season.

You must have missed Miami or China then

[fritticaldi]

All of you Ferrari and Hamilton haters better run and hide. From now on, Hamilton is the WDC challenger. It took time, but Hamilton steered the Ferrari technical staff in the right direction. Hamilton knew all along how to improve the Ferrari. The team listened to him. Now we see the results. By the way, thirty years ago in 1996 a racing driver named Michael Schumacher won his first race for Ferrari in Spain. Hamilton wins his first race for Ferrari in Spain as well.

[Wynters]

The problem for these people isn't the quality of the race, the problem is that a certain driver won...

Race lacked on track action compared to previous races and thanks to unreliability we had exciting 10 laps. Problem is that some people say it's the great race because a certain driver won.

You've missed an entire season in which Leclerc completely humiliated Hamilton.

Hopefully Hamilton's tires will die soon so we get some racing between Antonelli and Russell.

Yeah, all about the on track action...as long as a certain driver isn't involved, right?

[search]

Hülkenberg had to retire because some gravel hit a kill switch which shut off the car. We may see Lawson trying this more often now

[venkyhere]

race pace

[stephen]

Lewis is actually in contention for his 8th. That's unbelievable.

[pantherxxx]

Hamilton is disrespectful for wearing swimming cap on the podium imo. Under the national anthems.

[bananapeel23]

race pace

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What is that delta. Jeez. Almost a second faster. Obviously flattered by doing a 3 stop, but still.

[Gillian]

race pace

https://imgbb.com/

What is that delta. Jeez. Almost a second faster. Obviously flattered by doing a 3 stop, but still.

Same for Verstappen, that VSC helped him. He was losing time on Norris, 100% not better race pace than Norris.

[Danzo84]

Id put verstappens race pace on a 2 stop around leclercs times if i had to guess

[dans79]

Hamilton is disrespectful for wearing swimming cap on the podium imo. Under the national anthems.

It isn't a swimming cap..............................

[SiLo]

In this thread:

People hating Hamilton and disagreeing with the opinion of the driver who finished 2nd in the race.

Sometimes I wonder how people function when they are so delusional.

Incredible race from Ferrari and Lewis. Only way Mercedes win that race today was team orders by swapping Kimi and Russell. Russell would never let that happen though so they were kind of stuck.

I think it can’t be ignored how the pressure from Norris helped Ferrari make this strategy work.

[Shrieker]

Lewis had genuine pace today. What a great way to win ! And it's not like he's been finishing outside of the top 5 and suddenly lucked into a win - he's got the consistency up and running again, this will be a fight.

Couldn't be better news for people who truly love this sport.

Today was a good day.

[erudite450]

I'm not sure how Norris was able to keep up with the Mercedes. He's quietly having a brilliant season and so are Perez, Sainz and Hulkenberg.

[FittingMechanics]

Merc murdered their tyres today. HAM was untouchable today.

Did you watch some fantasy version of the race? He only got in front because of the VSC.

HAM was a in a good shout to win the race regardless of the VSC. He had c. 15 second gap on L41 (pre-VSC) and was going to put hards at around L46, and would have come out between 5-8s behind ANT-RUS. Definitely a workable gap over 20 laps, and 10 laps fresher tyres, considering the gap HAM pulled on ANT-RUS post-VSC.

How does that work? He was 16 seconds ahead on lap 41. Russell, Antonelli and Norris were lapping about 0.5-0.8s faster than Hamilton. If we assume he pits on lap 46 that means he would be 12.7s ahead with a pitstop of about 24s. So he exits 12s behind them.

Then he needs to catch all three and overtake all three. His gap at the end was about 20 seconds, so he has to overcome 12s, then fight through 3 cars with 8 seconds to spare. I would have loved to see it but I think he wouldn't have won, 3 cars is just too hard to overtake, he would hurt his tires, lose pace, etc.