Overview
- Lewis Hamilton won the Barcelona Grand Prix for Ferrari after a three‑stop strategy that benefited from a late virtual safety car and retirements of front‑running cars.
- Franco Colapinto recovered from 13th on the grid to cross the line eighth, but hours after the race stewards imposed a 10‑second penalty that moved him to 10th.
- The FIA ruling said Colapinto did not reduce sufficiently under a yellow flag and also added one superlicence point to his record.
- Alpine used team orders on lap 20 to have Colapinto yield to Pierre Gasly as part of a split strategy that ultimately put both cars into the points on track.
- Barcelona’s extreme track temperatures and high tyre degradation shaped strategies and exposed Alpine’s gap in qualifying pace, an issue the team aims to address before the Austrian Grand Prix.