Spanish GP Tops / Flops: King Hamilton, Apprentice Tsunoda

Hamilton, King of Spain

Fifth straight victory in Barcelona, ​​the sixth in Catalonia and therefore a 98th career victory the day after his 100th pole position.

The numbers speak for themselves.

The Briton is at home in Spain and he demonstrated it again on Sunday.

Helped by an aggressive two-stop strategy at Mercedes, Hamilton then did the job on the track as always.

He is the boss and Max Verstappen begins to see him dangerously slipping away from the drivers' standings.

The gap is now fourteen units.

Perfect weekend for the seven-time world champion.

Leclerc brilliant fourth

“We had the perfect race” declared Charles Leclerc at the end of the race. Fourth on the grid, fourth at the finish, the leader of the Scuderia delivered another very solid race. Long third after passing on the first lap on Valtteri Bottas, the Monegasque and his Ferrari ended up losing to the pace of the Finn. But the number 16 knows he could not do better on Sunday and is happy to be happy with these twelve points.

Ricciardo's answer

Until then, McLaren rhymed more with Lando Norris, high-performing since the start of the season, than Daniel Ricciardo.

But for the first time this year, the Australian got the better of the Briton on both Saturday and Sunday.

At the finish, Ricciardo took a nice sixth place while Norris finished eighth.

This should boost the confidence of the ex-Renault driver.

Bodes well for two weeks before the Monaco Grand Prix, his favorite circuit.

FLOPS

Tsunoda at fault

Bad weekend for the Japanese.

Angry Saturday after his 16th place in qualifying, he criticized his car on the radio before complaining of a certain favoritism for Pierre Gasly, his teammate.

Forced to apologize publicly the same evening, the beginner was expected on Sunday.

But the Japanese did not have much luck as he quickly lost his engine and was forced to retire on the ninth lap.

After a promising first Grand Prix in Bahrain, Yuki Tsunoda remains on three very difficult weekends.

Perez disappoints

Once again, he left Max Verstappen to run around alone with the two Mercedes.

Eighth on the grid, then quickly sixth after a good start, the Mexican ran into Ricciardo for more than twenty laps.

It wasted a lot of time for him and at the finish Verstappen couldn't fight against the Mercedes.

As in Portugal last week.

On arrival, he finished fifth but there is no doubt that Red Bull expects more from Sergio Perez.

A Sunday to forget for Alonso

This Grand Prix on his land should not leave good memories for the double world champion.

Tenth on the grid and tenth for a long time in the race, Fernando Alonso, suffering with his tires, tumbled at the end of the race to take a modest 17th place, behind in particular the two Williams.

It makes a mess.

In addition, Esteban Ocon, his teammate, placed ninth.

What undermine the morale of the Spaniard.

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