Oscar Piastri continued to stake his claim to the 2025 Formula 1 drivers’ title with a clinical victory at the Circuit de Catalunya.
He added the pole position and the fastest lap, making this his second ‘hat trick’. He is only the 35th driver in the championship’s history to claim more than one.
He joins Juan Pablo Montoya and Rene Arnoux on seven grand prix wins. Piastri’s fourth pole position puts him level with 1958 world champion Mike Hawthorn, plus Didier Pironi, Jarno Trulli and Giancarlo Fisichella.
Piastri’s win meant this was the first Spanish Grand Prix for 10 years won by someone other than Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstappen.
For McLaren this was their first Spanish Grand Prix victory in 20 years. Kimi Raikkonen scored their last triumph at the Circuit de Catalunya. It was their ninth win in the race, three less than the record held by Ferrari.
Piastri led Lando Norris to McLaren’s 52nd one-two. It was the fourth for their current driver pairing, all of which Piastri has headed.
Nine rounds in, McLaren remains the only team to have had both its drivers on the podium, and each of them has only failed to reach the rostrum once all year. Charles Leclerc scored his third for Ferrari last weekend; Verstappen and George Russell have four each.
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Verstappen looked nailed-on for a podium finish until the Safety Car appeared. His post-race penalty condemned him to 10th place, which is his lowest running finish since the 2017 Italian Grand Prix, where he also scored a single point.
He was four seconds from failing to score at all, which would have ended Red Bull’s run of consecutive points finishes. They got their 76th in a row and are now five away from matching Ferrari’s all-time record.
Verstappen at least led a grand prix for the 100th time in his career. However Piastri has now led more laps in total over the season.
Ordinarily this year Alexander Albon might have nicked fifth place behind Russell but Williams had a dreadful weekend and Nico Hulkenberg instead popped up to take his highest finish since the 2019 Italian Grand Prix, when he came fifth for Renault. This was the 13th top-five finish for the driver who famously still has no podium finishes to his name.
Fernando Alonso finally picked up his first points of the season. It took him nine rounds to get a score on the board, the longest he’s waited in 10 years. Only in his point-less inaugural season for Minardi 24 years ago did he go longer without scoring.
The Circuit de Catalunya remains the scene of his last grand prix victory, 12 years and 209 rounds ago (for him, having sat out the 2019 and 2020 seasons). This is the second-longest streak of starts without a win by any driver, ahead of the win-less 208-race career of Andrea de Cesaris. Only Hulkenberg has started more races consecutively without winning one, as last weekend’s event was his 235th.
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Finally, the 55th Spanish Grand Prix was the last to be held at the Circuit de Catalunya. The event will move to the new Madring next year. Catalunya is due to reappear on the 2026 F1 calendar but it remains to be seen what title it will use. Spanish tracks have also previously held the European Grand Prix, at Jerez in 1994 and 1997, and the Valencia Street Circuit from 2008-12.
This was the 35th Spanish Grand Prix to take place at the Circuit de Catalunya. Two more were held at Pedralbes, four at Montjuic Park, five at Jerez and nine at Jarama. The latter was also due to hold the race in 1980, but although most teams took part, due to a row between them and FISA (now the FIA) the event lost its championship status and no points were awarded.
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