ROUND 9: 🇪🇸 Barcelona

FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES GRAN PREMIO DE BARCELONA-CATALUNYA 2026

Weekend Schedule

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  • Practice 1: Friday, 13:30 CEST | 11:30 UTC
  • Practice 2: Friday, 17:00 CEST | 15:00 UTC
  • Practice 3: Saturday, 12:30 CEST | 10:30 UTC
  • Qualifying: Saturday, 16:00 CEST | 14:00 UTC
  • Race: Sunday, 15:00 CEST | 13:00 UTC

Circuit stats & Tyres

  • First Grand Prix: 1991
  • Number of laps: 66
  • Circuit Length: 4.657 km
  • Race Distance: 307.236 km
  • Lap record: 1:16.330 Max Verstappen (2023)
  • 2025 Pole: Oscar Piastri (1:11.546)
  • 2025 Fastest Lap: Oscar Piastri (1:15.743)
  • 2025 winner: Oscar Piastri
  • Pirelli Tyres: C2 (Hard) ⚪, C3 (Medium) 🟡, C4 (Soft) 🔴
  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    5·
    15 days ago

    The racing has been good but not exactly plentiful. However, I have appreciated the strategy battle. While I’m happy for Lewis getting some luck, I do wish we would have gotten the tense finish we would have gotten without the VSC.

    • misery mansion@lemmy.world
      1·
      15 days ago

      I see what you mean but there have been some nice legit overtakes. Definitely more of a tyre race though, you are right

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
        1·
        15 days ago

        I mean, most have been just passes due to insane tyre delta and otherwise it’s been mostly driving spread out so as to not to kill the tyres. F2 earlier had some actual nice moves though.

          • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
            1·
            15 days ago

            I really didn’t expect him to be able to nurse those tyres in the feature. And he actually made some moves too (albeit with a huge tyre delta). He is damn fast, but his racecraft has been lacking a bit so far otherwise.

            • misery mansion@lemmy.world
              2·
              15 days ago

              I think we will start to see him come in to it now. It was the same with Fornaroli, once he “got it” he was fairly unstoppable. Maybe not in the ultimate form like Piastri was but probably more comfortably dominant than eg Pourchaire or Drugovich were. Drugo had the 1 good engine in his winning season as well, I would argue.

              Also nice to see Herta in the mix. Huge risk for him joining f2, given the consequences if he drowns in it (for Indy as well!)

              • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
                1·
                14 days ago

                I mean, I haven’t been super impressed by Herta personally. But yeah, Camara is clearly a talent.