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What Barcelona's hot and humid war of tyre attrition lacked in on-track action, it made up for in storylines. Sunday's initially languid race became one to remember thanks to the revival of an all-time great, and poetic justice that provided the latest twist in an intriguing Formula 1 title campaign.
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Lewis Hamilton produced one of the feel-good moments of the 2026 Formula 1 campaign by claiming his maiden victory for Ferrari at the Barcelona Grand Prix.
The seven-time world champion made a blockbuster move to the Scuderia in 2025 after 12 legendary seasons at Mercedes, but his debut year didn’t go as expected.
A frustrated Hamilton suffered the first podium-less campaign of his 18-year ...Keep reading

Kimi Antonelli was penalised by the Formula 1 Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix stewards after the race, having been found guilty of violating track limits more than three times during the event.
The decision does not change the outcome of the race for the championship leader, but it could have had consequences had he managed to finish the race.
Antonelli started third and spent much of the ...Keep reading

Alpine Formula 1 driver Franco Colapinto has been dropped from eighth to 10th in the Barcelona Grand Prix result after being handed a 10-second time penalty.
Colapinto finished eighth on the road, behind Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly, on what had been a solid recovery day for the Enstone squad after it struggled for pace all weekend.
But after the race, Colapinto was called to the FIA race ...Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton's first Formula 1 victory for Ferrari, even before the Briton had crossed the finish line at the Barcelona Grand Prix, quickly captivated spectators and observers, temporarily pushing Mercedes' internal fight and Kimi Antonelli's retirement into the background.
But these two race incidents, important in the story of the 2026 season, were very much on the mind of Toto Wolff, the ...Keep reading

Ferrari chairman John Elkann has released an emotional statement following Lewis Hamilton's first win with the Maranello outfit at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix. 
The seven-time champion claimed his first victory in red after starting the race from second on the grid and successfully pulling off a three-stop strategy. While a virtual safety car played into the team's strategy, Hamilton ...Keep reading

Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Fred Vasseur says Lewis Hamilton would have won the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix without the virtual safety car, such was the Briton's pace on his three-stop strategy. 
With the expectation of high tyre degradation, Ferrari committed to the three-stopper early with Hamilton and opened with its first pit stop at the end of his 11th tour to trade his soft ...Keep reading

Few people in Formula 1 know Lewis Hamilton better than Toto Wolff. The pair enjoyed one of the most successful partnerships in the sport's history, winning six drivers' championships together during a spell of more than a decade at Mercedes.
Hamilton's move to Ferrari ahead of the 2025 season failed to deliver immediate success, with the seven-time world champion enduring a difficult maiden ...Keep reading

1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve has argued that Lewis Hamilton's first win with Ferrari at the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix has not only firmly put the seven-time champion into the title picture, but could also lead to internal tension with his team-mate Charles Leclerc.
After starting the race in Barcelona from second on the grid, Hamilton and Ferrari pulled off a three-stop ...Keep reading

Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli was left feeling ‘emotionally empty’ after his late retirement at the Barcelona Grand Prix, which sparked reliability concerns at Mercedes.
The 19-year-old was running second behind Lewis Hamilton before suffering an engine failure that caused Antonelli to retire with three laps remaining on Sunday.
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2016 Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg believes Lewis Hamilton's "spectacular" Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix victory will propel the 41-year-old to even greater heights in the 2026 championship battle.
Following a blockbuster switch to Ferrari in 2025, Hamilton initially endured a challenging start to his much-anticipated career in Maranello. After adapting to the new team in 2025, he has ...Keep reading

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By winning the Formula 1 Barcelona Grand Prix while championship leader Kimi Antonelli retired, Lewis Hamilton takes 25 points from the Italian's lead, with the gap now reduced to 41 points compared to 66 when arriving in Spain. Third-placed, George Russell moves back to within 50 points of his team-mate.
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Lewis Hamilton thanked Ferrari for helping him "achieve a dream" after taking his maiden grand prix win as a member of the Scuderia.
Hamilton and Ferrari went on the offensive in F1's tyre battle on a sweltering Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Unlike most other frontrunners, including poleman George Russell, Hamilton opted for a start of softs, with the excessive tyre degradation all but ...Keep reading

A strategic masterclass gave Lewis Hamilton his maiden victory for Ferrari at the Barcelona Grand Prix while Formula 1 championship leader Kimi Antonelli retired late on.
The Mercedes driver was set to finish second behind Hamilton before an engine failure struck with three laps remaining, handing the runner-up spot to team-mate George Russell.
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Lewis Hamilton's first Ferrari win doesn't come out of nowhere
In his 31st grand prix start for Ferrari, Lewis Hamilton has finally taken the Scuderia to the top step of the podium, his first win in two calendar years.
You can't say it hadn't been coming. Surrounding himself with an engineering team and boasting a SF-26 that he had significant input in, Hamilton has been a totally different ...Keep reading

Toyota outgunned LMDh rivals BMW and Cadillac with its radically overhauled TR010 Hybrid to score an emphatic victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway claimed the top spot in the #7 Toyota at the end of a tense if low-drama race, with the sister car driven by Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi finishing third.
The two Toyotas were ...Keep reading

Fernando Alonso delivered a brilliant moment of self-deprecatory humour ahead of the Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix, jokingly telling his passionate fans that he would rather watch the race from the grandstands than from his Aston Martin Formula 1 car.
The two-time champion was taking part in the traditional pre-race drivers' parade at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya when the viral moment ...Keep reading

Sebastien Bourdais has branded his retirement from the 2026 Le Mans 24 Hours a “dagger in the heart”, after the #38 Cadillac was taken out of the race by a power steering failure.
Over the first half of the race, the #38 V-Series.R shared by Bourdais, Jack Aitken and Earl Bamber firmly was one of the main contenders for victory alongside the sister #12 car, the #8 Toyota and the #20 ...Keep reading

Oliver Bearman was surprised to reach Q2 at the Barcelona Grand Prix after battling the “worst” Formula 1 car he’s ever driven that morning in final practice.
The Haas driver will start Sunday’s contest in 15th for what is his best qualifying result since the Miami Grand Prix, where he took 13th en route to 11th in that race.
But the 21-year-old feared a Q1 exit in Spain after ...Keep reading