F1 results 2017: Lewis Hamilton wins Spanish Grand Prix, plus full finishing order

Lewis Hamilton won the F1 Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.

It was a tight race, with Sebastian Vettel leading for much of the early going before pit stops shook up things. Hamilton got the lead, and once again the soft compound tire performed beyond expectations.

They were the only Mercedes or Ferrari drivers to finish, however. Kimi Raikkonen and Valtteri Bottas both retired from the race — the former on the opening lap and the latter deep into the race. Raikkonen was part of an opening-lap collision while Bottas’ four-race-old engine failed him in the later stages of the grand prix.

Hamilton and Vettel have been scrapping back and forth this season with cars that seem nearly equal. Vettel carried a lead in the Drivers’ Championship going into the race, with Hamilton in second.

Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull had a quiet race, and while his rivals crashed out and suffered engine failures, he found himself comfortably in third place to snag the final podium spot.

He only had the Force India cars of Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon to worry about, but he was comfortably ahead of them all race. Perez and Ocon finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

The start was chaotic, with Vettel quickly overtaking Hamilton while Bottas and Raikkonen made contact around the first turn. Raikkonen in turn crashed into Max Verstappen and suffered terminal damage to his car, ending his race early. Verstappen experienced suspension damage and had to limp his car around the track to the pit lane.

Felipe Massa was also part of that whole scrap and suffered a puncture. He too had to limp around the track to the pits. Verstappen’s car was retired not long after that. Fernando Alonso of McLaren also caught some flak for forcing Massa off the track into the first turn.

That’s what sparked Massa’s flat and what dropped Alonso from seventh all the way to 11th, out of the points.

After all of the scrapping, Vettel had a 2.6-second lead over Hamilton, so when DRS was enabled, Hamilton wasn’t in range. By Lap 10, Hamilton was on the radio saying he could not catch up to Vettel. On Lap 12, he was told by his engineer that he needs to push and that this is the most important part of the race.

Bottas ended up around eight seconds behind Hamilton at this point. Vettel started off the pit stops by coming in on Lap 15, and when he rejoined he was in fifth place. Kevin Magnussen of Haas and Carlos Sainz of Toro Rosso had been scrapping since the start of the race, and they pitted at the same time.

Sainz had a better pit stop and he released first, but Haas released Magnussen ahead of him in what looked close to an unsafe release. Sainz, feeling like the place was his, tried to go around Magnussen in the pit lane and both probably deserved penalties.

Hamilton remained out for a few laps and was losing time to Vettel in the process. It’s unclear why Ferrari kept him out so long, and when he came out of the pits he was nine seconds behind Vettel. He was on the medium tire though, while Vettel fit another set of soft tires and, therefore, would have to stop again.

Bottas held Vettel up as much as he could, but eventually Vettel made it into first place. On Lap 32, Hamilton tells his radio that he doesn’t think he can match Vettel’s times. The team radio replied that Vettel will have to make a stop and will be on the medium tires at the end of the race.

A virtual safety car was deployed on Lap 34 when Stoffel Vandoorne and Massa came together. Vandoorne suffered damage and had to retire from the race. Hamilton came into the pits at the end of the virtual safety car and put on the super soft tires. Vettel then responded a lap later and fit the mandatory set of medium tires.

Vettel came out of the pit alongside Hamilton and they barely touched around the first turn, but no damage occurred. Unfortunately for Mercedes, Bottas had car problems and had to stop, retiring from the race. Bottas was coming off a win in the Russian Grand Prix, but will gain no points in Barcelona.

That put Ricciardo up into third place, with the Force Indias just behind him. Not long after, Hamilton got past Vettel with a whole lot of time left on the super soft tires. Vettel came over his team radio and said Hamilton was “like a train” and that there was nothing he could do.

Vettel’s medium compound tires were not lasting as long as advertised, and he began to slow down in the final 10 laps. Hamilton kept running good times, however, despite being on the soft compound. Hamilton comfortably finished ahead of Vettel for the win.

We’ve got the full finishing order for the race below.