F1: GP of Spain 2016

Kimi Räikkönen, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel

Red Bull Racing Team

Pos	Driver	Team	Laps
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	66
2	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	66
3	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari	66
4	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull Racing	66
5	Valtteri Bottas	Williams Martini Racing	66
6	Carlos Sainz Jr.	Scuderia Toro Rosso	66
7	Sergio Perez	Force India F1 Team	66
8	Felipe Massa	Williams Martini Racing	66
9	Jenson Button	McLaren Honda	65
10	Daniil Kvyat	Scuderia Toro Rosso	65
11	Esteban Gutiérrez	Haas F1 Team	65
12	Marcus Ericsson	Sauber F1 Team	65
13	Jolyon Palmer	Renault Sport F1 Team	65
14	Felipe Nasr	Sauber F1 Team	65
15	Kevin Magnussen	Renault Sport F1 Team	65
16	Pascal Wehrlein	Manor Racing MRT	65
17	Rio Haryanto	Manor Racing MRT	65
18	Romain Grosjean	Haas F1 Team	56
19	Fernando Alonso	McLaren Honda	45
20	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber F1 Team	20
21	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes AMG Petronas	0
22	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes AMG Petronas	0

Drivers Classification

Pos	Driver	Nationality	Team	Points
1	Nico Rosberg	German	Mercedes	100
2	Kimi Räikkönen	Finnish	Ferrari	61
3	Lewis Hamilton	British	Mercedes	57
4	Sebastian Vettel	German	Ferrari	48
5	Daniel Ricciardo	Australian	Red Bull Racing	48
6	Max Verstappen	Dutch	Red Bull Racing	38
7	Felipe Massa	Brazilian	Williams	36
8	Valtteri Bottas	Finnish	Williams	29
9	Daniil Kvyat	Russian	Toro Rosso	22
10	Romain Grosjean	French	Haas	22
11	Carlos Sainz	Spanish	Toro Rosso	12
12	Fernando Alonso	Spanish	McLaren	8
13	Sergio Perez	Mexican	Force India	8
14	Kevin Magnussen	Danish	Renault	6
15	Nico Hulkenberg	German	Force India	6
16	Jenson Button	British	McLaren	3
17	Stoffel Vandoorne	Belgian	McLaren	1
18	Jolyon Palmer	British	Renault	0
19	Esteban Gutierrez	Mexican	Haas	0
20	Marcus Ericsson	Swedish	Sauber	0
21	Pascal Wehrlein	German	Manor	0
22	Felipe Nasr	Brazilian	Sauber	0
23	Rio Haryanto	Indonesian	Manor	0

Constructors

Pos	Team	Points
1	Mercedes AMG Petronas	157
2	Ferrari	109
3	Red Bull Racing	94
4	Williams Martini Racing	65
5	Scuderia Toro Rosso	26
6	Haas F1 Team	22
7	Force India F1 Team	14
8	McLaren Honda	12
9	Renault Sport F1 Team	6
10	Sauber F1 Team	0
11	Manor Racing MRT	0

Max Verstappen

Max Verstappen

Max, the reception said it all and Sebastian just said it: it’s very much your day. Just sum up your emotions, as an 18-year-old, winning your first ever Formula One grand prix?
MV: It’s amazing. I mean, this race felt like an endurance race to me, especially the last 10 laps. I couldn't believe that I was leading the race. And yeah, today just everything went well. I could hold on to the tyres and I think we did the best strategy possible and yeah, unbelievable, I can’t believe it.

Max, youngest ever winner of course of a Formula One race. So many questions. Obviously the strategy came towards you after Sebastian pulled your team-mate into a different kind of tactic. Nevertheless, you had to remain very calm under sustained pressure from Kimi Raikkonen on your right there. What’s the most surprising aspect of this win for you, or is it not a surprise to you?

MV: It is a very big surprise. Of course I didn’t expect that. On the first stint on the soft I could keep up quite well after the two Mercedes crashed. But at one point, if you are so close behind the first you start to destroy your tyres so yeah I lost a bit of ground there and we decided to pit and again there, when we went onto the medium tyre, the car felt great. From there on I was just managing my speed, my tyres; I was just managing everything. At the end I think we did the best strategy possible. Especially in the last stint I got quite a bit of pressure from Kimi behind, but on this track it’s quite difficult to overtake so for me it was a case of not making mistakes, no front locking, so that’s what I tried to do and it worked. This feeling to be first… I was targeting a podium but then to win straight away, it’s an amazing feeling.

Kimi Räikkönen

Kimi Räikkönen

Coming to you Kimi, second today and second in the championship. Swings and roundabouts for you: the start cost you but then the strategy came towards you. Youngest driver in the field against the oldest, what were you thinking in the final laps?

KR: yeah, I had a poor start. When I released the clutch I got wheelspin and it’s impossible to recover from the first part of wheelpsin when that happens. Luckily, I managed to go around the people in Turn Three and I didn’t lose too badly. It could have been an awful lot more worse. I think speed-wise it was pretty OK. I was able to catch the three guys in front of me. But in the end when I got to Max, I got close but I could not follow close enough or get a good enough exit in the last corner because I was close and obviously I gave quite a hard time to my tyres to following him for so many laps. It’s disappointing not to win but after yesterday and after a bad start I take what we got today and especially for Ferrari as we quite a good points today with two cars. It’s going forward, not what we want, but I’m happy for him [Max]. We all know he is a good driver and he’s in a good team now. When it comes to youngest and oldest, it happens to be like that. I raced against his father. That actually sounds even more scary. In F1! That’s how it goes.

Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel

Fantastic, thank you very much. Sebastian, you were behind the two Red Bulls, you needed to do something different, so you threw the dice on the strategy with three stops. But it turned out for both of you not to be the fastest way today and then you had a real ding-dong with him in the closing stages?

SV: Yeah, it was an interesting race. Obviously we tried everything. We tried to get ahead. In the end I think we were surprised at how superior the two-stop was, but yeah, from their point of view, they tried to cover as much as they can. They tried to cover with the lead car, which made sense, but I think you could see for both of us, Daniel and myself, that the three-stop wasn’t really superior. Then I had an interesting race trying to hold him off. They were quite competitive on the medium tyres. Bit quicker than us in the last sector, so bit difficult to hold him off. Once it was very hairy, it was quite close into Turn One, if I didn’t open up we just crash. In that instant for sure I was on fire and complaining, because if I don’t play according to his move there is a crash. Then again it is racing and I can see that he is trying the one chance he had. I had a bad exit and he has to go for it. In the end I have raced him many times and it’s always good fun. It was very entertaining for me trying to hold onto it, trying to hold onto the podium, so I’m very happy I made it. Obviously it took the tension away when he had the puncture in the last two laps, I don’t what happened there. But all in all, high hopes after Turn Four for all of us to have a go and win the race. We tried everything. We split the cars. Obviously on my side it was in hindsight probably the worst strategy, but you know, all this talk doesn’t matter now. Max won the race. I can just pass my congratulations. It’s very special to win your first race and it’s his day. He deserves it. He did a great race. I saw those two fighting a little bit in front of us two fighting, so well done.

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