2010 Spanish Grand Prix articles archive

Find all the F1 Fanatic Spanish Grand Prix coverage in one place below – from Friday practice to the post-race review and our live comments on every session.

With two laps to go in Spain McLaren looked on course to increase their lead in the constructors’ championship and have both drivers on top in the drivers’ standings. But a shock failure on Lewis Hamilton’s car, which still hasn’t been explained, dashed those hopes.

After locking out the front row of the grid with an eight tenths of a second margin, did Red Bull hide their true superiority during the race in Spain? If so, they blundered by not allowing Sebastian Vettel enough of a margin to keep Lewis Hamilton behind at the first round of pit stops. After … Continue reading Red Bull get faster but unreliability dogs Vettel (Spanish GP team-by-team)

With a longer-wheelbase car and a radical new airbox this weekend Mercedes reckoned they made progress at the Spanish Grand Prix. But a look at the data suggests they might have done nothing more than transfer the weight of their problems from Michael Schumacher’s side of the garage to Nico Rosberg’s.

Rank Driver Car Fastest lap Deficit to fastest lap 1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1’24.357 2 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1’24.828 0.471 3 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1’24.846 0.489 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1’25.166 0.809 5 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1’25.176 0.819 6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1’25.455 1.098 7 Robert Kubica Renault 1’25.466 1.109 8 Vitaly Petrov … Continue reading Spanish Grand Prix fastest laps

Pos Num Driver Car Laps Gap Difference Grid 1 6 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 66 1 2 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 66 24.065 24.065 4 3 5 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 66 51.338 27.273 2 4 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 66 62.195 10.857 6 5 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 66 63.728 1.533 5 6 7 … Continue reading Spanish Grand Prix result

Red Bull will naturally be thrilled at locking out the front row for the Spanish Grand Prix. But they will also be concerned at how hard their drivers will push each other as the run to the first corner at Barcelona could decide who wins the race.

Here is the grid for the Spanish Grand Prix: Row 1 1. Mark Webber 1’19.995Red Bull-Renault 2. Sebastian Vettel 1’20.101Red Bull-Renault Row 2 3. Lewis Hamilton 1’20.829McLaren-Mercedes 4. Fernando Alonso 1’20.937Ferrari Row 3 5. Jenson Button 1’20.991McLaren-Mercedes 6. Michael Schumacher 1’21.294Mercedes Row 4 7. Robert Kubica 1’21.353Renault 8. Nico Rosberg 1’21.408Mercedes Row 5 9. Felipe … Continue reading 2010 Spanish Grand Prix grid

Sebastian Vettel gave a powerful indication he intends to take his fourth pole position of the year this afternoon after topping the final practice session at the Circuit de Catalunya. Vettel was fastest by seven tenths of a second but practice was once again disrupted by a crash – this time it was Renaultls Vitaly … Continue reading Vettel comfortably fastest in final practice

While other teams turned up with eye-catching performance upgrades, Red Bull got everyone’s attention by dominating the second practice session in Spain by eight tenths of a second. Is that a true reflection of how much quicker the RB6 is than rival teams’ cars? Take a closer look at the times from second practice using … Continue reading Red Bull’s pace and Schumacher’s progress (Practice 2 interactive chart)

The F1 cars hit the track in Barcelona bristling with new updates and a few new sponsors too. Have a look at how all the teams’ cars have changed below.

The Red Bull duo were comfortably the fastest cars around the Circuit de Catalunya in the second practice session on Saturday. Sebastian Vettel was the only driver to set a sub-1m 20s lap and no-one got within half a second of him and team mate Mark Webber.

View all the lap times from the first free practice session at the Circuit de Catalunya on the interactive chart below.

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button got McLaren’s Spanish Grand Prix weekend off to a strong start by topping the times sheets in the first practice session. Michael Schumacher put the revised Mercedes third fastest as practice got started at the Circuit de Catalunya.