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Grand Prix qualifying results: Hamilton takes pole in Barcelona
Lewis Hamilton took pole position – the 100th of his F1 career – for the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona for Mercedes on Saturday, the fourth round of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship season.
Charles Bradley
Edited: May 8, 2021, 5:47 PM
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Hamilton will start ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
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Spanish Grand Prix qualifying results: Hamilton on pole from Verstappen
Cla Driver Time Gap km/h 1 Lewis Hamilton
1'16.741 218.370 2 Max Verstappen
1'16.777 0.036 218.268 3 Valtteri Bottas
1'16.873 0.132 217.995 4 Charles Leclerc
1'17.510 0.769 216.204 5 Esteban Ocon
1'17.580 0.839 216.009 6 Carlos Sainz Jr.
1'17.620 0.879 215.897 7 Daniel Ricciardo
1'17.622 0.881 215.892 8 Sergio Perez
1'17.701 0.960 215.672 9 Lando Norris
1'18.010 1.269 214.818 10 Fernando Alonso
1'18.147 1.406 214.442 11 Lance Stroll
1'17.974 1.233 214.917 12 Pierre Gasly
1'17.982 1.241 214.895 13 Sebastian Vettel
1'18.079 1.338 214.628 14 Antonio Giovinazzi
1'18.356 1.615 213.870 15 George Russell
1'19.154 2.413 211.713 16 Yuki Tsunoda
1'18.556 1.815 213.325 17 Kimi Raikkonen
1'18.917 2.176 212.349 18 Mick Schumacher
1'19.117 2.376 211.812 19 Nicholas Latifi
1'19.219 2.478 211.540 20 Nikita Mazepin
1'19.807 3.066 209.981 View full results
What happened in Q1?
The first session, when all cars are on track together, was delayed by 10 minutes due to barrier repairs.
Once it got going, Bottas set the early pace at 1m18.005s on medium tyres, 0.085s faster than Verstappen who was using softs. AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly was third quickest, ahead of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and Hamilton, who was a quarter of a second off the pace in sixth.
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McLaren’s Lando Norris, whose first run was ruined by traffic, took P1 at his second attempt with 1m17.821s, which was 0.184s faster than Bottas. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc leapt up to third on a second run, just 0.036s off Bottas’s time.
Falling at the first hurdle were AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda (who ran wide on what should’ve been his fastest lap), Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen, Mick Schumacher (Haas), Nicholas Latifi (who lost part of his Williams’ underside after running wide at Turn 9) and the second Haas of Nikita Mazepin.
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Spanish Grand Prix Q1 results: Norris fastest from Bottas
Cla Driver Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Lando Norris
6 1'17.821 215.340 2 Valtteri Bottas
4 1'18.005 0.184 0.184 214.832 3 Charles Leclerc
6 1'18.041 0.220 0.036 214.733 4 Max Verstappen
5 1'18.090 0.269 0.049 214.598 5 Pierre Gasly
3 1'18.190 0.369 0.100 214.324 6 Sergio Perez
6 1'18.203 0.382 0.013 214.288 7 Carlos Sainz Jr.
3 1'18.205 0.384 0.002 214.282 8 Lance Stroll
6 1'18.241 0.420 0.036 214.184 9 Lewis Hamilton
7 1'18.245 0.424 0.004 214.173 10 Daniel Ricciardo
3 1'18.264 0.443 0.019 214.121 11 Esteban Ocon
3 1'18.281 0.460 0.017 214.074 12 Fernando Alonso
6 1'18.281 0.460 0.000 214.074 13 Sebastian Vettel
6 1'18.289 0.468 0.008 214.053 14 George Russell
8 1'18.445 0.624 0.156 213.627 15 Antonio Giovinazzi
6 1'18.549 0.728 0.104 213.344 16 Yuki Tsunoda
6 1'18.556 0.735 0.007 213.325 17 Kimi Raikkonen
6 1'18.917 1.096 0.361 212.349 18 Mick Schumacher
9 1'19.117 1.296 0.200 211.812 19 Nicholas Latifi
9 1'19.219 1.398 0.102 211.540 20 Nikita Mazepin
9 1'19.807 1.986 0.588 209.981 View full results
What happened in Q2?
In Q2, the pole position-hunting protagonists eschewed the usual practice of running medium tyre – as they wanted to save them for the race, so the top-10 cars will all start the race on softs.
Verstappen unleashed the true pace of his Red Bull, producing a lap of 1m16.922s that was almost half a second clear of Bottas after the first runs. Hamilton was 0.71s off in third, and he had Norris right behind him.
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Everyone apart from Verstappen ran again, with both Mercedes improving their times – Bottas getting to within 0.22s of the pace, with Hamilton close behind him despite using a set of tyres he’d scrubbed-in during Q1. Sainz jumped up for fourth, ahead of Perez.
Knocked out at this point were Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll, Gasly, the second Aston of Sebastian Vettel, Antonio Giovinazzi (Alfa Romeo) and George Russell (Williams, who’d run out of fresh soft tyres).
Spanish Grand Prix Q2 results: Verstappen fastest from Bottas
Cla Driver Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Max Verstappen
3 1'16.922 217.857 2 Valtteri Bottas
6 1'17.142 0.220 0.220 217.235 3 Lewis Hamilton
6 1'17.166 0.244 0.024 217.168 4 Carlos Sainz Jr.
6 1'17.656 0.734 0.490 215.797 5 Sergio Perez
6 1'17.669 0.747 0.013 215.761 6 Lando Norris
5 1'17.696 0.774 0.027 215.686 7 Charles Leclerc
6 1'17.717 0.795 0.021 215.628 8 Daniel Ricciardo
6 1'17.719 0.797 0.002 215.622 9 Esteban Ocon
6 1'17.743 0.821 0.024 215.556 10 Fernando Alonso
5 1'17.966 1.044 0.223 214.939 11 Lance Stroll
6 1'17.974 1.052 0.008 214.917 12 Pierre Gasly
6 1'17.982 1.060 0.008 214.895 13 Sebastian Vettel
6 1'18.079 1.157 0.097 214.628 14 Antonio Giovinazzi
6 1'18.356 1.434 0.277 213.870 15 George Russell
3 1'19.154 2.232 0.798 211.713 View full results
What happened in Q3?
In the top-10 shootout, Hamilton set the bar at 1m16.741s, just missing yellow flags for Perez spinning at Turn 13 after he dipped his tyres into the gravel on turn-in.
Verstappen was second fastest, 0.036s down, with Bottas a further tenth back in third. Alpine’s Esteban Ocon was best of the rest, ahead of Sainz and McLaren’s Daniel Ricciardo.
On the final runs, Hamilton had a big moment at the final chicane and didn’t improve, but neither did Verstappen nor Bottas, so Hamilton’s 100th career pole was confirmed.
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Leclerc improved on his second run to jump up to fourth, ahead of Ocon, Sainz, Ricciardo, Perez, Norris and Alpine’s Fernando Alonso.
Spanish Grand Prix Q3 results: Hamilton takes pole
Cla Driver Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Lewis Hamilton
6 1'16.741 218.370 2 Max Verstappen
6 1'16.777 0.036 0.036 218.268 3 Valtteri Bottas
6 1'16.873 0.132 0.096 217.995 4 Charles Leclerc
6 1'17.510 0.769 0.637 216.204 5 Esteban Ocon
6 1'17.580 0.839 0.070 216.009 6 Carlos Sainz Jr.
6 1'17.620 0.879 0.040 215.897 7 Daniel Ricciardo
5 1'17.622 0.881 0.002 215.892 8 Sergio Perez
5 1'17.701 0.960 0.079 215.672 9 Lando Norris
6 1'18.010 1.269 0.309 214.818 10 Fernando Alonso
6 1'18.147 1.406 0.137 214.442 View full results
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- Hamilton: 100th F1 pole "feels like one of the first"
- Ricciardo more confident in his McLaren F1 car after "mini breakthrough"
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