2023 Spanish Grand Prix
2023 Spanish Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 7 of 22 in the 2023 Formula One World Championship
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Race details[1] | |||||
Date | 4 June 2023 | ||||
Official name | Formula 1 AWS Gran Premio de España 2023 | ||||
Location | Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Montmeló, Spain | ||||
Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
Course length | 4.657 km (2.894 miles) | ||||
Distance | 66 laps, 307.236 km (190.908 miles) | ||||
Weather | Cloudy | ||||
Attendance | 284,066[2] | ||||
Pole position | |||||
Driver |
Honda RBPT | ||||
Time | 1:12.272 | ||||
Fastest lap | |||||
Driver | Max Verstappen |
Honda RBPT | |||
Time | 1:16.330 on lap 61 (lap record) | ||||
Podium | |||||
First |
Honda RBPT | ||||
Second | Mercedes | ||||
Third | Mercedes | ||||
Lap leaders |
The 2023 Spanish Grand Prix (officially known as the Formula 1 AWS Gran Premio de España 2023) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 4 June 2023 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. It was the seventh round of the 2023 Formula One World Championship.
After taking
Background
The event was held across the weekend of 2–4 June 2023.[1] It was the seventh round of the 2023 Formula One World Championship.
Following the upgrade package to the
Championship standings before the race
Max Verstappen was the Drivers' Championship leader after the sixth round, the Monaco Grand Prix, with 144 points, 39 ahead of Sergio Pérez in second, with Fernando Alonso in third, 12 points behind Pérez. In the Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing led Aston Martin by 129 points and Mercedes by 130.[4]
Entrants
The drivers and teams were the same as the season entry list with no additional stand-in drivers for the race.[5]
Tyre choices
Tyre supplier Pirelli brought the C1, C2, and C3 tyre compounds (designated hard, medium, and soft, respectively) for teams to use at the event. For this Grand Prix, drivers could run in the first two practice sessions two sets of new hard tyre that would be introduced for the British Grand Prix.[6]
Track changes
From this edition, Formula One would use the layout used by
Practice
Three
Qualifying
Qualifying report
The second segment saw Sergio Pérez go off-track. An incident involving Lewis Hamilton and George Russell made contact on the main straight, with the former suffering from significant front-wing damage. Russell was investigated for impeding, before being cleared, and joined Pérez, Zhou Guanyu, and the AlphaTauris of Nyck de Vries and Yuki Tsunoda in being eliminated.
Hamilton took a new front wing as the third and final segment began and qualified in fifth. Verstappen took the pole position, his first at the Spanish Grand Prix, with Sainz trailing him behind. Lando Norris was in third while Oscar Piastri occupied the tenth and final position on the Q3 grid. Alonso had a time good enough for ninth, out-qualified by Lance Stroll in sixth. Gasly was set to enjoy a fourth-position finish, until two separate three-place penalties for impeding other drivers dropped him to tenth,[12] with teammate Esteban Ocon in seventh. Nico Hülkenberg qualified eighth.[13][14]
Qualifying classification
Pos. | No. | Driver | Constructor | Qualifying times | Final grid | ||
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Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||||
1 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Honda RBPT
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1:13.615 | 1:12.760 | 1:12.272 | 1 |
2 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari | 1:13.411 | 1:12.790 | 1:12.734 | 2 |
3 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:13.295 | 1:12.776 | 1:12.792 | 3 |
4 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine-Renault | 1:13.471 | 1:13.186 | 1:12.816 | 101 |
5 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:12.937 | 1:12.999 | 1:12.818 | 4 |
6 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes | 1:13.766 | 1:13.082 | 1:12.994 | 5 |
7 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine-Renault | 1:13.433 | 1:13.001 | 1:13.083 | 6 |
8 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Haas-Ferrari | 1:13.420 | 1:13.283 | 1:13.229 | 7 |
9 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes | 1:13.747 | 1:13.098 | 1:13.507 | 8 |
10 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren-Mercedes | 1:13.691 | 1:13.059 | 1:13.682 | 9 |
11 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Honda RBPT
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1:13.874 | 1:13.334 | N/A | 11 |
12 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:13.326 | 1:13.447 | N/A | 12 |
13 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 1:13.677 | 1:13.521 | N/A | 13 |
14 | 21 | Nyck de Vries | Honda RBPT
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1:13.581 | 1:14.083 | N/A | 14 |
15 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Honda RBPT
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1:13.862 | 1:14.477 | N/A | 15 |
16 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 1:13.977 | N/A | N/A | 16 |
17 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 1:14.042 | N/A | N/A | 17 |
18 | 23 | Alexander Albon
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Williams-Mercedes | 1:14.063 | N/A | N/A | 18 |
19 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1:14.079 | N/A | N/A | PL2 |
20 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | Williams-Mercedes | 1:14.699 | N/A | N/A | PL3 |
107% time: 1:18.042 | |||||||
Source:[15][16] |
Notes
- ^1 – Pierre Gasly received two three-place grid penalties for impeding Carlos Sainz Jr. and Max Verstappen in Q1.[16][17][18]
- ^2 – Charles Leclerc qualified 19th, but he received a 15-place grid penalty for exceeding his quota of power unit elements.[19] He was then required to start the race from the pit lane due to changes made to the set up of the suspension under parc fermé.[16][20]
- ^3 – Logan Sargeant qualified 20th, but he was required to start the race from the pit lane due to changes made to the set up of the suspension under parc fermé.[16][21]
Race
The race was held on 4 June 2023, at 15:00 local time (
Race report
Polesitter
Zhou Guanyu and Nico Hülkenberg swapped their softs for hards on lap 9 with the Alfa driver overtaking the Haas. Esteban Ocon soon followed into the pits. Carlos Sainz Jr. came in on lap 16 for mediums, prompting a confused response from the Ferrari driver; meanwhile Leclerc put on softs. Sergio Pérez soon found himself behind Fernando Alonso, with the Aston Martin soon putting on softs. Norris soon returned to the pits with mediums in-hand; Hamilton followed with mediums and rejoined behind Sainz. With drivers coming in for their stops, Verstappen and Pérez led a 1–2 for Red Bull with Sainz in third; furthermore, Verstappen had pulled such a large gap he swapped for hards by lap 26 and did not lose the lead to his teammate. However, Pérez would drop to ninth after a stop for hards, and soon passed Alonso with the aid of DRS. His tyres degrading as he went, Stroll decided to take the hards and rejoined in thirteenth. Meanwhile, Oscar Piastri went into the pits along with Pierre Gasly.
By lap 50, Sainz, Alonso, Russell, Hamilton and Pérez all swapped their compounds while Verstappen was shown a black and white flag due to three track limits violations. Ocon pulled a defense on Alonso, which Alonso was able to evade.
Race classification
Pos. | No. | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Honda RBPT
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66 | 1:27:57.940 | 1 | 261 |
2 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 66 | +24.090 | 4 | 18 |
3 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 66 | +32.389 | 12 | 15 |
4 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Honda RBPT
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66 | +35.812 | 11 | 12 |
5 | 55 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | Ferrari | 66 | +45.698 | 2 | 10 |
6 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes | 66 | +1:03.320 | 5 | 8 |
7 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin Aramco-Mercedes | 66 | +1:04.127 | 8 | 6 |
8 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine-Renault | 66 | +1:09.242 | 6 | 4 |
9 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 66 | +1:11.878 | 13 | 2 |
10 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine-Renault | 66 | +1:13.530 | 10 | 1 |
11 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 66 | +1:14.419 | PL | |
12 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | Honda RBPT
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66 | +1:15.4162 | 15 | |
13 | 81 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren-Mercedes | 65 | +1 lap | 9 | |
14 | 21 | Nyck de Vries | Honda RBPT
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65 | +1 lap | 14 | |
15 | 27 | Nico Hülkenberg | Haas-Ferrari | 65 | +1 lap | 7 | |
16 | 23 | Alexander Albon
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Williams-Mercedes | 65 | +1 lap | 18 | |
17 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren-Mercedes | 65 | +1 lap | 3 | |
18 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas-Ferrari | 65 | +1 lap | 17 | |
19 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo-Ferrari | 65 | +1 lap | 16 | |
20 | 2 | Logan Sargeant | Williams-Mercedes | 65 | +1 lap | PL | |
Honda RBPT ) – 1:16.330 (lap 61)
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Source:[16][24][25] |
Notes
- ^1 – Includes one point for fastest lap.[25]
- ^2 – Yuki Tsunoda finished ninth, but he received a five-second time penalty for forcing Zhou Guanyu off the track.[24]
Championship standings after the race
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- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
See also
References
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