Who won the last Spanish Grand Prix?

Last year, the Spanish Grand Prix hosted the seventh round of the Formula 1 world championship. Max Verstappen started from pole position, but which team finished with a surprise double podium in Barcelona and could they repeat it this season?

Who completed the podium alongside Max Verstappen?

It comes as no surprise that it was Max Verstappen and Red Bull were the winners of the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix, Verstappen's fifth of his 19 race wins last season and his third at Spain. It was surprisingly Mercedes who finished in P2 and P3, Lewis Hamilton leading home George Russell. The Silver Arrows had started the Grand Prix with Hamilton fourth and Russell 12th, but by Lap 2 Russell was already seventh. Home hero Carlos Sainz had started alongside Verstappen but only finished fifth.

Britain's Lando Norris had a difficult race from third, making contact with Hamilton's Mercedes in Turn 2 and damaging his front wing. Norris' teammate Oscar Piastri finished in P13 but with McLaren's improvements in the last year, could they challenge towards the front?

Lance Stroll ran in third in the opening laps but was overtaken by Hamilton and only finished in P6.

Max disagreement with his engineer

One memorable moment from last years Spanish Grand Prix, was Verstappen ignoring the advice from his engineer Gianpiero Lambiase (GP). GP had told the Dutchman to watch track limits after he had picked up a black and white flag for three infringements but continued to push asking GP what the fastest lap of the race was. GP responded by telling Verstappen it was his teammate Sergio Perez who held it on new soft tyres and believed Verstappen shouldn't attempt it and just bring the car home.

Verstappen responded by setting the fastest lap, three-tenths quicker than his teammate. This brought him a comment from GP "Now can we bring it home please".