{"id":736241,"date":"2026-06-14T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736241\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:34:12","slug":"barcelona-catalunya-grand-prix-live-f1-2026-grid-places-results-odds-stats-and-start-time-from-circuit-de-barcelona-catalunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736241\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona-Catalunya Grand Prix LIVE: F1 2026, grid places, results, odds, stats and start time from Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite being one of the revered teams in Formula 1\u2019s history, Ferrari often find themselves the target of online mockery and memeification.<\/p>\n

The famous Italian team has an unfortunate recent history of making bizarre strategy calls, incorrect tyre decisions and confusing radio messages, resulting in missed opportunities and botched race wins.<\/p>\n

However, there were no signs of poor strategy calls at the Barcelona-Catalunya GP on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"LewisLewis Hamilton wins his maiden GP with Ferrari.Getty Images<\/p>\n

Instead, Ferrari executed a flawless three-stop race, allowing Hamilton to snatch the lead from pole-sitter George Russell and cruise to victory.<\/p>\n

The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya features the mix of high and low-speed corners and the trademark hot weather increases heavy tyre degradation and requires a race strategy with more pit stops.<\/p>\n

In a cat and mouse game, the Ferrari chose to pit Hamilton early on lap 11, forcing all the other drivers to swarm the pitstop and alter their strategies. The seven-time world champion pitted again on lap 27 and was able to swoop on race leader Russell and snatch the lead with fresher tyres.<\/p>\n

\"AA victorious Hamilton was emotional on the podium after his winGetty Images<\/p>\n

A fortuitous virtual safety car, allowed Hamilton to pit a third and final time and cement his maiden victory in red, with Russell finishing in second place and Lando Norris in third.<\/p>\n

Hamilton last won a Formula 1 Grand Prix on July 28, 2024, at the Belgian Grand Prix and (excluding a sprint race win) had not tasted victory with Ferrari until today.<\/p>\n

\u201cCiao grazie, thank you so much for helping me achieve this dream,\u201d a euphoric Hamilton said over the radio.<\/p>\n

In a post-race interview, Hamilton said the team had brought so many improvements and changes this year and thanked everyone for \u201cnever giving up\u201d. The team brought several upgrades to Barcelona. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd, on top of that, I\u2019ve got the greatest fanbase a sportsman could ever ask for,\u201d he added<\/p>\n

A beaming and emotional Hamilton stood on top of the podium, wiping his eyes with a towel before throwing his trophy up in the air.<\/p>\n

However, it was a heartbreaking day for championship leader Kimi Antonelli who had to retire with three laps to go.<\/p>\n

The youngster had snatched second place from his teammate Russell after a sensational overtake and battle, but suffered power unit issues and spluttered on to the grass. <\/p>\n

His retirement\u2019s granted crucial points to title rival Russell, who said it was \u201cgood to be back on the podium\u201d. At the start of the week, Russell was in a 66-point deficit to Antonelli.<\/p>\n

The Italian younger still leads the championship, but his lead has been shaved to 48 points after Barcelona.<\/p>\n

It was a miserable day for Oscar Piastri who finished in fifth after struggling with pace.<\/p>\n

Piastri would have finished in seventh (the same place he started the race) but was aided by Antonelli and Leclerc\u2019s last-minute retirement after power unit failures. <\/p>\n

Despite showing some pace in qualifying, Piastri was never able to compete with Mercedes or Ferrari and was marooned in seventh for nearly for the whole race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being one of the revered teams in Formula 1\u2019s history, Ferrari often find themselves the target of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-736241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}