Formula One Spanish Grand Prix live blog, race updates

So that wraps up another mega triple header of F1! Things look to be very much in the favour of Lewis Hamilton at the moment, who has just won his fourth race of the season. A well deserved break for everyone next weekend, before we resume the championship at the famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. Thank you again for joining us on The Roar for this F1 live blog and we look forward to being back for the Belgian Grand Prix in two week's time. Until then, take care everybody and stay safe. Laters!

-------- DRIVER'S -------- 132 - Lewis Hamilton 95 -- Max Verstappen 89 -- Valtteri Bottas 45 -- Charles Leclerc 40 -- Lance Stroll 40 -- Alexander Albon 39 -- Lando Norris 32 -- Sergio Perez 23 -- Carlos Sainz 20 -- Daniel Ricciardo 16 -- Sebastian Vettel 16 -- Esteban Ocon 14 -- Pierre Gasly 6 --- Nico Hulkenberg 2 --- Antonio Giovinazzi 2 --- Daniil Kvyat 1 --- Kevin Magnussen 0 --- Kimi Ráikkönen 0 --- Nicholas Latifi 0 --- George Russell 0 --- Romain Grosjean

----- CONSTRUCTOR'S ----- 221 - Mercedes AMG 135 - Aston Martin Red Bull Racing 63 -- Racing Point Mercedes 62 -- McLaren Renault 61 -- Scuderia Ferrari 36 -- Renault 16 -- Scuderia AlphaTauri 2 --- Alfa Romeo Racing 1 --- Haas Ferrari 0 --- Williams Mercedes

RACE REPORT It was a Sunday afternoon cruise in Spain for Lewis Hamilton, winning his 88th career grand prix from pole position to extend his lead in the championship over Max Verstappen and Valtteri Bottas. In what was another race of tyre management for the front-runners, Hamilton ran unchallenged across the 66-laps via a two-stop strategy. During which the reigning world champion even chose himself to go onto the medium tyre in the final stint. The race was compromised at the start for his Mercedes teammate Bottas at the start, who got a poor getaway and was swamped by Verstappen and the two Racing Points heading into Turn 1. While Verstappen seemed out of reach for Bottas, pretty much for the entire race then – the Finn did quickly round up Lance Stroll to be back within the podium places. A soft tyre gamble in the second stint failed to yield anything for Bottas, who stopped for a third time on the penultimate lap for the medium compound en route to the fastest lap of the race. Racing Point split their strategies between Stroll and the returning Sergio Perez, with the latter left out on a one-stop strategy which was due to deliver fourth – if it wasn’t for a 5-second penalty for ignoring blue flags. This let two-stopping Stroll to take fourth, while finishing fifth on track. A contra strategy for Carlos Sainz too saw him finish a position higher than he qualified, in sixth. Taking on another set of soft tyres after his first pit-stop to make gains on the Racing Points and then solidified his top-six position with a switch to mediums in the final phase. Double points for McLaren, as Lando Norris bagged the final point in tenth after some spectacular battles with Charles Leclerc during the race and then a last lap challenge from Daniel Ricciardo. Leclerc unfortunately was the race’s only retirement, with his engine cutting off mid-corner. Ferrari teammate Sebastian Vettel endured another testy race for the Scuderia, starting eleventh and looking to have made ground on a one-stop strategy. Only for an earlier call for a second stop raised by his engineer much later in the race, when the four-time world champion believed they had nothing to lose. Seventh his best finish of the season since their sixth in Hungary. A hard tyre gamble for Alexander Albon also failed and saw the Red Bull driver struggle through traffic to recover the positions lost due to that early pit-stop. Ultimately they had to make a second stop in order to charge back up into the points for eighth, ahead of Pierre Gasly in the AlphaTauri who was stellar again.

STANDBY FOR RACE REPORT & UPDATED STANDINGS

POST-RACE INTERVIEWS - Hosted by Martin Brundle HAMILTON - "I was just in a daze out there. It felt fantastic." "Tyre management was very, very good." "I was ready to keep going." "I was looking in my mind to potentially go for a one stop." "I want to say a big thank you for everyone back at the factory." VERSTAPPEN - "To be able to split them today was good for us, as we didn't have the pace like Lewis." "I expected a bit more [trouble from Bottas]." BOTTAS - "I think the start was the key point, it was not good enough." "Struggle with the tyre life and in stint 2 I was behind Max and it was difficult to overtake." "Disappointed."

He has a way with his radio communication doesn't he?

RESULTS FROM THE 66-LAP SPANISH GRAND PRIX 1 L. Hamilton 2 M. Verstappen 3 V. Bottas [FASTEST LAP] 4 L. Stroll 5 S. Perez 6 C. Sainz 7 S. Vettel 8 A. Albon 9 P. Gasly 10 L. Norris 11 D. Ricciardo 12 D. Kvyat 13 E. Ocon 14 K. Räikkönen 15 K. Magnussen 16 A. Giovinazzi 17 G. Russell 18 N. Latifi 19 R. Grosjean RET C. Leclerc

LEWIS HAMILTON WINS THE SPANISH GRAND PRIX! It's Max Verstappen who splits the Mercedes duo with another handsome podium for Red Bull. And Valtteri Bottas will finish a disappointing third, though bags an extra point for claiming the fastest lap of the race.

Hmmmmm, doesn't look good at all.

Lap 66/66: FINAL LAP

Lap 65/66: Bottas pits for a third time! Presumably just to get fastest lap and an extra point on a fresh set on mediums. Disappointing though that they couldn't get after Verstappen.