ROUND 9: 🇪🇸 Barcelona

FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES GRAN PREMIO DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA 2026

Weekend Schedule

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Practice 1: Friday, 13:30 CEST | 11:30 UTC
Practice 2: Friday, 17:00 CEST | 15:00 UTC
Practice 3: Saturday, 12:30 CEST | 10:30 UTC
Qualifying: Saturday, 16:00 CEST | 14:00 UTC
Race: Sunday, 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC

Circuit stats & Tyres

First Grand Prix: 1991
Number of laps: 66
Circuit Length: 4.657 km
Race Distance: 307.236 km
Lap record: 1:16.330 Max Verstappen (2023)
2025 Pole: Oscar Piastri (1:11.546)
2025 Fastest Lap: Oscar Piastri (1:15.743)
2025 winner: Oscar Piastri
Pirelli Tyres: C2 (Hard) ⚪, C3 (Medium) 🟡, C4 (Soft) 🔴

Finally, a non-Mercedes winner to spice things up on the championship! That VSC and pit stop timing for Lewis was just perfect, coming out exactly in front of Russell, amazing.

Audi once again giving us hope but reliability is still one of their enemies. Man, seeing that Hulkenberg pit stop not moving was just sad, was hoping for some points today with those good starting positions.

Yeah I felt sorry for Hulkenberg. He deserved better

Insane timing for Lewis. It's very weird to be saying "Ferrari masterclass" unironically.

When was the last time we had a genuine three-stopper? I know Qatar 2023 was it with the enforced 18 lap limit but was that the last time?

I can't remember but agree, vanishingly rare

Hope it works!

Oof, sucks for Antonelli and Leclerc. Especially for Kimi as it happened right after he finally managed to pass Russel :/

I like Kimi but for the sake of the championship table this was amazing. Wide open now!

That was a good move by Kimi! Finally some proper action.

What happened to Kimis car?

Some kind of mechanical failure. He also had a broken front wing so maybe he hit something?

Manifesting this first Ferrari win for Lewis 🙏

Perfectly timed pit stop with the VSC. There's hope!

Oh man wouldn't it be nice to see Mercs take each other out and have Max fight for his life against a Ferrari in Barcelona.

Edit: 10 year anniversary special no less.

Even if they don't, spending g time fighting just make a HAM win more likely

Give this man a medal

Yellow flag infringement, nooo

No further action.

Possibly only if you give a fuck about lewis but this has been the best race of the season for me in terms of actual racing, so far (lap 50)

The racing has been good but not exactly plentiful. However, I have appreciated the strategy battle. While I'm happy for Lewis getting some luck, I do wish we would have gotten the tense finish we would have gotten without the VSC.

I see what you mean but there have been some nice legit overtakes. Definitely more of a tyre race though, you are right

I mean, most have been just passes due to insane tyre delta and otherwise it's been mostly driving spread out so as to not to kill the tyres. F2 earlier had some actual nice moves though.

I thought both f2 races were very decent. Insane delta from camara in the feature. He's the f3 champ for a reason

I really didn't expect him to be able to nurse those tyres in the feature. And he actually made some moves too (albeit with a huge tyre delta). He is damn fast, but his racecraft has been lacking a bit so far otherwise.

I think we will start to see him come in to it now. It was the same with Fornaroli, once he "got it" he was fairly unstoppable. Maybe not in the ultimate form like Piastri was but probably more comfortably dominant than eg Pourchaire or Drugovich were. Drugo had the 1 good engine in his winning season as well, I would argue.

Also nice to see Herta in the mix. Huge risk for him joining f2, given the consequences if he drowns in it (for Indy as well!)

I mean, I haven't been super impressed by Herta personally. But yeah, Camara is clearly a talent.

Wow Antonelli DNF! Out of the blue.

What an absolute heartbreak (I like Kimi), but man, this is properly good for the championship!

That's a flop of an ending

Are you not entertained?