FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA EMIRATES 2018 - PRACTICE 2

FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPAÑA EMIRATES 2018 - PRACTICE 1

2018 Spanish Grand Prix preview

The Spanish GP is a race where many teams bring new updates for their cars so anything can still happen.

Remember what happened in 2012? Pastor Maldonado was fighting against Fernando Alonso and Kimi Räikkönen and won the race in the end.

Pastor Maldonado won in 2012.

In 2013 Alonso won, Kimi was second and Felipe Massa was third. Kimi actually drove better than Alonso in that race but lost his position because of poor pitstop strategy. 

2013's podium finishers.

In 2014 and 2015 it was the Mercedes boys at the top. 2014 was Hamilton's year and 2015 Rosberg's.

2014 was a bit different than the years before.

Two years ago they collided after the start and Red Bull's new driver, Max Verstappen, won in his debut race for the team.

In 2017 Mercedes could have taken a double win again but Valtteri Bottas had a DNF. Hamilton won the race, Vettel was 2nd and Ricciardo was 3rd.

This year I am pretty sure that Mercedes will do great also. This is their track!

Then it's time for my predictions.

Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

The race:

1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
2. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes
3. Kimi Räikkönen, Ferrari

Fastest lap: Kimi Räikkönen, Ferrari

Surprise: Esteban Ocon, Force India


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2018 European Grand Prix review

Like I suspected this was the most interesting race this season until now. Last year same thing. I hope we will see a lot of races like this because this sport needs to get more interesting quick! It used to be so amazing years ago and it's sad that it isn't anymore. I mean it's still F1 so I watch it but I am not as happy about a GP weekend as I used to be.

Moving on to the start! It was a clean start until Esteban Ocon and Kimi Raikkonen crashed. The Finn was able to continue but Ocon's race was over. He blamed the Finn for everything and said that he should not drive for Ferrari. Where I was standing it looked like it was Ocon's fault when he closed the door on Raikkonen and he had no place to go but what ever mate.

Fernando Alonso also had some drama. He had a clean start but then suddenly Sergei Sirotkin was pushed on Alonso's car. Might have been one of the Renaults but not quite sure. Carlos Sainz maybe? Anyways... Alonso was not happy at all about it and told everybody on the radio what he thought of it. Alonso was able to continue and McLaren is now the only team that has not retired from a single race this season. Can you believe that?!?!

The safety car was deployed after the crashes and when they restarted the Renaults of Hulkenberg and Sainz were just flying!! It got really interesting for a change! Love to see surprises like that. They were overtaking the Red Bulls but weren't fast enough for the Mercedes'.

The Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo were also interesting to follow. Verstappen though... he should seriously calm down. He is driving like a maniac at the moment! One season like this and he is back at Toro Rosso or worse! Later on they crashed and they both retired. Sad story for Red Bull. Who's fault was it? Tough to say but Verstappen did change his racing line more than once so that Ricciardo had no place to go when he locked his tyres. Do the math.

Raikkonen jumped two positions higher and was now 4th. Valtteri Bottas pitted at the best possible time when the safety car was deployed again and was now in the lead ahead of Sebastian Vettel.

Romain Grosjean crashed during the safety car and was furious. Understandable to be mad because that was straight up embarrassing! He was just trying to get temperature into the tyres and wasn't concentrating enough I guess.

When the race restarted Bottas took a super start and was just flying in front. There was still debry on the track and Bottas got a puncture! That is so frustrating. He really deserved the win.

Now Hamilton took the lead ahead of Raikkonen and Sergio Perez. They crossed the finish line in this order and the race was over.

What a race!!! More of these please.

Now let's see my predictions and the results:

Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. Vettel was on pole.

The race:

1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - CORRECT
2. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes - WRONG. He retired and Raikkonen was 2nd
3. Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari - WRONG. Sergio Perez was 3rd.

Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes - WRONG. His teammate Bottas was fastest.

Surprise: McLaren will have a great race here - CORRECT. Fernando Alonso 7th and Stoffel Vandoorne 9th.

That's it for today and if you want to send me feedback then email me: f14lifeblog@gmail.com

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