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1086th GP
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya


Last year's race

Red Bull strategy calls felt unfair by Pérez, despite giving the team another 1-2 finish, with Verstappen winning.

Season standings
after round 6

DRIVERS
POS   DRIVER   NATIONALITY   CAR   PTS
1   Max Verstappen   NED   RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT   144
2   Sergio Perez   MEX   RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT   105
3   Fernando Alonso   ESP   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   93
4   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   MERCEDES   69
5   George Russell   GBR   MERCEDES   50
6   Carlos Sainz   ESP   FERRARI   48
7   Charles Leclerc   MON   FERRARI   42
8   Lance Stroll   CAN   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   27
9   Esteban Ocon   FRA   ALPINE RENAULT   21
10   Pierre Gasly   FRA   ALPINE RENAULT   14
11   Lando Norris   GBR   MCLAREN MERCEDES   12
12   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   HAAS FERRARI   6
13   Oscar Piastri   AUS   MCLAREN MERCEDES   5
14   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   4
15   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   2
16   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT   2
17   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   HAAS FERRARI   2
18   Alexander Albon   THA   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   1
19   Nyck De Vries   NED   ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT   0
20   Logan Sargeant   USA   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0

CONSTRUCTORS
POS   TEAM   PTS
1   RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT   249
2   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   120
3   MERCEDES   119
4   FERRARI   90
5   ALPINE RENAULT   35
6   MCLAREN MERCEDES   17
7   HAAS FERRARI   8
8   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   6
9   ALPHATAURI HONDA RBPT   2
10   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   1

Timetables
all times are local (GMT+2)

FRIDAY 2nd JUNE      Local time

FIA Formula 3   Practice Session   09:55 - 10:40
FIA Formula 2   Practice Session   11:05 -11:50
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   12:00 - 13:00
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   12:00 - 13:00
FIA   F1 Car Presentation   12:00 - 13:00
FORMULA 1   FIRST PRACTICE SESSION   13:30 - 14:30
FIA Formula 3   Qualifying Session   15:00 - 15:30
Formula 1   Teams Press Conference   15:00 - 16:00
FIA Formula 2   Qualifying Session   15:55 - 16:25
FORMULA 1   SECOND PRACTICE SESSION   17:00 - 18:00
FIA Formula 3   Press Conference   18:15 - 18:45
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   18:15 - 19:00
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   18:15 - 19:15
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   18:45 - 19:15

SATURDAY 3rd JUNE
      
FIA Formula 3   Sprint Race (21 Laps or 40 Mins +1 Lap)   10:30 - 11:15
Formula 1   Team Pit Stop Practice   11:25 - 11:55
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   11:25 - 12:05
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   11:25 - 12:05
FIA Formula 3   Press Conference   11:35 - 12:05
FORMULA 1   THIRD PRACTICE SESSION   12:30 - 13:30
FIA Formula 2   Sprint Race (26 Laps or 45 Mins +1 Lap)   14:15 - 15:05
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   15:25 - 15:55
FORMULA 1   QUALIFYING SESSION   16:00 - 17:00
Formula 1   Press Conference   17:00 - 18:00
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   17:45 - 18:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   17:45 - 18:30
F1 Experiences   F1 Experiences Grid Walk & Trophy Photo   18:30 - 19:30

SUNDAY 4th JUNE
      
FIA Formula 3   Feature Race (25 Laps or 45 Mins +1 Lap)   09:55 - 10:45
FIA Formula 2   Feature Race (37 Laps or 60 Mins +1 Lap)   11:25 - 12:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   12:45 - 13:45
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   12:45 - 13:45
Formula 1   Drivers' Parade   12:50 - 13:20
FIA Formula 2   Press Conference   13:20 - 13:50
Formula 1   National Anthem   14:46 - 14:48
FORMULA 1   GRAND PRIX (66 LAPS OR 120 MINS)   15:00 - 17:00

pain in Spain now falling in June

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Pretty insane this is the first normal race track since Bahrain. Only (semi)street circuits for 3 months straight.

Anyway, after Imola cancellation, I'm just glad to see some old school gravel traps and pastoral scenery in the background. I'm sure the drivers feel less-stressed as well, since running wide doesn't always mean instant damage to the car...wait a second, am I praising giant run-off areas?

Anyway, looking forward to see F1 cars go flat in the last corner without the chicane. Thank god it's gone. 15 years we suffered. Not that one corner makes a big difference, as it was already called Borecelona before the chicane. But at least from onboard the lap is more flowing now.

Some models show light rain for Sunday, but I think Monaco used all rain quota for a while. Not expecting wet Sunday until Spa.

I expect nothing of this race, so it can only get better, right?

Next stop: Canada (and Le Mans inbetween).

Just like Monaco, Qualifying will be fun (because of the final 2 corners) but unless it rains at a random moment, expect nothing

God, I hope returning the final 2 corners means Pirelli fuck up the tyre durability or something because this race needs a bunch of random punctures to liven it up

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No chicane?

Do we know if 13 and 14 will be easy flats on low fuel? Or is this the first time they're running this configuration?

last time they ran without chicanes was 2006

but now they have put DRS on the beggining of the straight so expect easy passes or a huge DRS train

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Great to finally see the removal of that chicane. I'm confident it will improve the racing, but there are a few variables. Will the final corners be flat out? Or will they be very high speed, creating a ton of dirty air for the following cars? Either way, I don't think it will spread the cars out any further than the chicane already did, and it will be far nicer to watch the cars at speed. DRS zone looks huge, though.

As codename said, the extra tyre wear will hopefully provide some entertainment. Or extra tyre management...

The chicane was shit and did nothing for the racing

The final 2 flat out corners are shit and do nothing for the racing

The track is shit and does nothing for the racing

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RIP Birmingham Wheels: here's some of the crash videos I recorded when it was there:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIaKIE ... 5t9d5PvoHA

Twitter:

http://www.twitter.com/paulhadsley

Catalonia has been in a drought for over 2 years now, but there is actually a forecast of showers for Sunday.

I'm still pissed about Covid, because it prevented us from getting wet Spanish GP for the first time since 1996.
According to historic weather data, it rained all day when the GP was originally due to take place on 10 May.

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/ ... 5-10/daily

First "normal" track of the season, we will finally find out the true pecking order of the field.

It'll be a Red Bull walkover unless the cars fail

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Lol, I think we know.
Chances for another VER PER ALO podium are very high unless one of them hits troubles.

This is one of those weekends to pray hard to the racing gods for a Red Bull double DNF + Alonso home win.

First full GP weekend I'll have managed to watch as a fan in a very long time. Even if it is Spain, I'm looking forward to it.

Ok

I didn't know that they were going back to the full pre chicane layout. Using the older hairpin on back straight. Not the sharp stop. Old school.

RIP LF tyres. Hopefully it's a 2 stopper just because of all the fast turns.

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Didn´t they already do that last year?

FP1 time