Verstappen wins at 18, Raikkonen 2nd, Vettel 3rd, Ricciardo 4th
Hamilton and Rosberg out after crashing into each other on lap one
Hulkenberg, Alonso, Grosjean out
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Carlos Sainz has a Ferrari chomping at his ankles. Sebastian Vettel is prowling, waiting for the chance to pounce but good defending from Sainz as he keeps the former world champion at arms length. The Spanish driver entertaining the home fans there with some great driving.
Lewis Hamilton trudges back to the paddock, his helmet hiding his expression but he will no doubt be fuming. This has been a year to forget for him so far.
No surprises as race control confirm the incident between Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton will be investigated.
Image source, F1Carlos Sainz appears to have profited from the drama at the start. He is up to third now, ahead of the two Ferraris.
The rest of the top 10 is: 6) Bottas 7) Perez 8) Button 9) Alonso 10) Grosjean
Two McLarens in the top 10. Scenes.
Michael Sayles:, external So that was some start to the Spanish GP. Lewis Hamilton has to take blame for trying to force a way through a nonexistent gap.
Paritosh Singh:, external Rosberg should have given space. Totally his fault.
David Ferguson:, external Hamilton goes on the grass THEN crashed into Rosberg and it's somehow not Hamilton's fault?!
We must remember that there is still actually a race going and the early headline from that is that it is a Red Bull one-two at the front, Daniel Ricciardo leading from Max Verstappen.
Verstappen is very well placed for a historic podium place, which would make him the youngest driver to achieve that.
Could he even go for the win?
Safety car coming in on this lap.
Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst
Quote MessageThe two Mercedes are out. The mechanics can't believe it. Lewis Hamilton was holding his head in amazement and it is a disaster for Mercedes - their post-race briefing is going to be very interesting. Nico Rosberg was in front at turn three, but it was a little bit of a misunderstanding. It was very robust from both drivers. Rosberg was moving over to defend the corner - it was two guys going for the same piece of tarmac, but the big loser out of this is Lewis Hamilton.
Mercedes are NOT happy. There's lots of shaking of heads in their garage.
Looking at the replays, Lewis Hamilton was squeezed out by Nico Rosberg as the reigning world champion tried to overtake. He was sent onto the grass, spun and clipped the rear of Rosberg's car.
Image source, F1.comThe safety car is out. What madness! As Lewis Hamilton tried to reclaim first the two collided and were sent flying into the gravel. Unbelievable.
There's going the some very angry faces in the Mercedes garage.
CONTACT BETWEEN THE TWO MERCEDES!
They are out of the race!
Wow!
LIGHTS OUT! A good start by Lewis Hamilton but also a great start by Nico Rosberg and he takes him at Turn one!
No drama on the formation lap as everyone makes it to their place on the grid.
Three, two, one...
Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst
Quote MessageIt is difficult to overtake, there is only really the starting straight to do it so in turn one they will be trying to take advantage of any slow starters.
The tyre covers are off and everyone has soft tyres bolted on apart from Rio Haryanto at the back of the grid. He's on mediums.
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Will it be Hammertime on the track? Almost time to find out as the cars prepare to head off on their formation lap...
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Barcelona
Image source, BBC Sport“So, strategy. The fastest race is a two-stop on soft-medium-medium. To make that work, the first stop will be around lap 12. However, making the medium go the necessary number of laps is not that easy, so some may be forced into a three-stop, either soft-medium-medium-soft, or soft-soft-soft-medium (probably what Haas will do, judging by their tyre allocation), in which case first stops are from lap eight. But not only is this slower than a two-stop, but you have to pass cars as well, and that’s not easy when you need a lap-time advantage of two seconds at least to make a move viable. A pit stop takes about 21 seconds in total and the undercut is worth two seconds. But the timing of that has to be traded against tyre life.”
Edging closer to go time. Let's take a look at what strategy we could expect for this race...