Summary

  • Oscar Piastri wins the Spanish Grand Prix

  • Verstappen handed 10-second time penalty for causing a collision, dropping him to 10th

  • Dutchman collided with Mercedes' George Russell late on

  • Lando Norris finishes second, Charles Leclerc third

  • Leclerc overtakes Verstappen at safety car restart but pair make contact; stewards now investigating

  • Nico Hulkenberg finishes fifth for Sauber

  • Alex Albon and Kimi Antonelli retire from race

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Live Reporting

Gary Rose

  1. Max Verstappen pits from the lead and he comes out JUST ahead of Lewis Hamilton, fending off the overtake down into Turn One. He is now on mediums.

  2. Team radio - Verstappen

    "It's so hard to drive. I can't brake and I have no turn in, in low speed."

  3. Alex Albon has indeed retired from the race.

    Out in front, Max Verstappen continues to lead but is struggling with those tyres now.

  4. Jennie Gow
    F1 pit-lane reporter in Barcelona

    It is unusual to see both drivers of a team having their front wing changed. So Albon and Sainz have damage and now Albon again. They'll be running out of front wings down there.

  5. Alex Albon serves that penalty but is back in the pits again and could well be retiring.

    A race to forget.

  6. More woe for Alex Albon as he is given a 10-second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.

  7. Max Verstappen continues to lead but he's on softs that are 14-laps old now. He leads Oscar Piastri by five seconds but it will be interesting to see how long this stint goes on for for Verstappen.

  8. Poor Alex Albon has front wing damage for the second time in this race after that coming together with Liam Lawson.

  9. 'Red Bull mixing up the strategy'

    Olli Caldwell
    Former F2, F3 and Alpine development driver on Sports Extra 2

    Red Bull and Max Verstappen know that they can't necessarily win this race from outright pace, so they're coming to mix up the strategy compared to the two McLarens.

  10. Team radio - Albon

    "Liam just pushed me off."

  11. Jennie Gow
    F1 pit-lane reporter in Barcelona

    It's worth noting Verstappen is on the soft tyres, Piastri and Norris both on the medium tyres. So there is a massive difference of what they are doing out there strategically.

  12. Max Verstappen is on softs and we've seen they don't have much life in them. Everyone behind him down to seventh are on mediums.

  13. Harry Benjamin
    BBC F1 Commentator

    Max Verstappen is on an older set of tyres compared to Oscar Piastri who will feed out in second, about five seconds back from Verstappen.

  14. Oscar Piastri can't get back out ahead of Max Verstappen so now the world champion leads after the first round of pit stops.

    The McLarens are on the fresher rubber, however.

  15. Now Oscar Piastri pits from the lead...

  16. Olli Caldwell
    Former F2, F3 and Alpine development driver on Sports Extra 2

    Lewis Hamilton is questioning that because he now has to do a longer stint than his team-mate [Charles Leclerc] on this set of tyres.

    We're seeing some teams doing different things to the others [on the pit stops], some teams opting to stop from a soft and continue on another new set of soft tyres.

    Whereas other drivers stopped from the soft and have gone on to a new set of mediums.

  17. Lando Norris isn't going to 25 laps, though, as he pits and comes back out in third, behind Max Verstappen.

  18. Team radio - McLaren to Piastri

    Engineer: "How far do you think we can get? Lap 25 possible?"

    Piastri: "Possible, but difficult."

  19. In goes George Russell now and he is back out in seventh, one place behind Lewis Hamilton.

  20. Jennie Gow
    F1 pit-lane reporter in Barcelona

    You'd have to think protecting the undercut is from Mercedes and their duo of George Russell and Kimi Antonelli.