Red Bull
Race: Vettel
Overall: Vettel 4 vs Webber 1
Not a great race for the Bull's, Vettel complaining about the buzz world 'tyres', meaning 4th was the best he could do, losing out to title rivals Alonso and Raikkonen. He maximised his position where as Webber qualified poorly and finished in 5th in what really is one of his stronger circuits. Webber isn't stepping up to the plate since his TMB victory in Malaysia.
Ferrari
Race: Alonso
Season: Alonso 4 vs Massa 1
A superb performance by both who arguably both should have a point. Nevertheless, Alonso was another class in Spain, with the overtake of the race on lap 1 and electric pace throughout. Top performance by Massa who with a deserved podium.
McLaren
Race: Perez
Season: Button 3 vs Perez 2
Sergio qualified 9th and ran as high as 6th, again with superb pace for the car he's in, whilst Jenson qualified only 14th, but recovered well and stopped one less time to enable an 8th place finish. Whilst Button finished higher, Perez was the superior performer here.
Lotus
Race: Raikkonen
Season: Raikkonen 4 vs Grosjean 2
We never got to see what Grosjean could do due to his suspension failure ending his good run of finishes and no crashes! Nevertheless, Kimi was on the money again and maximised his car to finish ahead of a great Massa and the two Red Bull's, showing great pace on a 3 stop. He also qualified 4th to Romain's 7th.
Mercedes
Race: Rosberg
Season: Rosberg 2 vs Hamilton 3
What a shocker for Mercedes after locking out the front row. Hamilton was 4th by turn 4, and ended up a lonely 12th. Considering the tyre wear, Rosberg did extremely well to hang on to 6th ahead of di Resta in the closing laps, and took pole by 2.5 tenths to Lewis.
Sauber
Race: Gutierrez
Season: Hulkenberg 4 vs Gutierrez 1
A much improved Esteban who finally looked like an F1 driver, narrowly missing out on his first F1 point in 11th just behind Ricciardo. At one point before stopping he even led the race and his pace was good, with a few clean overtakes. Hulkenberg ran into troubles but nevertheless must be rueing over his move from Force India.
Force India
Race: di Resta
Season: di Resta 4 vs Sutil 1
Another good race for the Force India crew, apart from the one pitstop for Sutil which hampered his good race. This battle was close but di Resta showed better pace than Sutil overall in a consistent manner and was unlucky not to claim 6th. di Resta is not 8th, level on 26 points with Grosjean in 7th, ahead of Rosberg and the two McLaren's.
Williams
Race: Maldonado
Season: Maldonado 2 vs Bottas 3
No major improvement for Williams, but Maldonado did a respectable job to keep Bottas behind.
Toro Rosso
Race: Ricciardo
Season: Vergne 2 vs Ricciardo 3
Ricciardo picked up another point finishing 10th, and in the early stages of the race was flying, overtaking several cars, but ran out of tyres towards the end. Nevertheless, a firm performance, another one which he can build from.
Caterham
Race: van der Garde
Season: Pic 4 vs van der Garde 1
Giedo gets off the mark with a great display out-qualifying the 1 year experienced Pic, but despite being ahead of him in the race found one of his wheels fall off. A great effort nevertheless and gets the point.
Marussia
Race: Bianchi
Season: Bianchi 5 vs Chilton 0
Chilton is the last man to be on 0 points, but almost got his first one until Bianchi out-qualified him at the last minute. Both finished 2 laps down, way behind the Caterham of Pic. Looks like they may have lost the edge at the back again.
Nick, F1 Hub
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