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Spain - 07-09 May 2010
Gran Premio de Espana Telefonica
Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia
Race Distance: 66 laps, 307.104 km

The Circuit de Catalunya is located near Barcelona, Spain. This track includes many different elements that require a car to be well-rounded and balanced at all speeds. Traditionally, passing is rare at the circuit due to the high speed sweepers that prevent a following car from being able to keep up because of dirty air.

At the 2009 race, Brawn continued its domination of the season, relying on their unequaled rear-diffuser to stay ahead of the pack at the sweeping circuit and finishing Button 1, Barrichello 2. Webber took third.
Red Bull continues their dominate qualifying this season with another locked out front row. Webber takes the top spot, Vettel second.

Hamilton and Button also qualify well with their 3rd and 5th place starting positions.

Alonso will start 4th in front of his home fans. Schumacher finally bests teammate Rosberg and will start 6th.

The top 10 starting grid for Spain:
WEB VET HAM ALO BUT MSC KUB ROS MAS KOB
For the 10th consecutive race at Catalunya, the pole sitter has take the victory. Webber leads wire to wire and wins his 3rd ever GP, becomeing the 4th different driver to win in 5 races this season, and makes it look easy all the way.

Teammate Vettel on the other hand has to put in a brilliant drive in the face of nearly everything going wrong to come home 3rd. From unscheduled and long pit stops, to near wrecks on track, to brake failure during the closing laps, it was everything the German could do to fight off catastrophe.

Finishing between the two Red Bull cars is Alonso in front of his home crowd. Alonso looked to be finishing 4th as the race wound down, but Vettel's unscheduled tire change late in the race handed him 3rd, and later, Hamilton's tire failure and resulting shunt gave him 2nd.

Rounding out the top six is Schumacher who holds off the faster cars of Button and Massa from nearly the halfway point of the race.
1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th
WEB
(+25)
ALO
(+18)
VET
(+15)
MSC
(+12)
BUT
(+10)
MAS
(+8)
SUT
(+6)
KUB
(+4)
BAR
(+2)
ALG
(+1)
PET
 
KOB
 
ROS
 
HAM
 
LIU
 
HUL
 
TRU
 
GLO
 
DIG
 
BUE
 
CHD
 
DLR
 
SEN
 
KOV
 
Pos Participant Driver Picks Round
Points
Season
Points
Champ.
Standings
1 David ALO BUT MSC VET WEB 80 285 7th ↑ 3
2 curley ALO KUB MSC VET WEB 74 321 1st ↑ 1
= MattR ALO KUB MSC VET WEB 74 304 4th ↑ 2
= sperry ALO KUB MSC VET WEB 74 283 8th ↑ 1
5 7thBeatle ALO HAM MSC VET WEB 70 265 11th  
6 Rod R ALO BUT HAM VET WEB 68 189 14th  
7 Van ALO HAM MAS VET WEB 66 312 3rd  
8 Carrie BUT HAM MSC VET WEB 62 295 5th  
= Irfan Gilani BUT HAM MSC VET WEB 62 281 9th ↓ 1
10 lisaab BUT HAM MSC SUT WEB 53 273 10th ↓ 3
11 Tahoe RX7 BUT KUB MAS SUT WEB 53 294 6th ↓ 2
12 zpeed HAM MSC ROS VET WEB 52 239 13th  
13 tysonk ALO HAM MAS TRU WEB 51 246 12th  
14 Nick ALO BUT HAM SUT VET 49 313 2nd ↓ 1
15 April ALO BUT KUB ROS VET 47 158 15th  
Gran Premio de Espana Telefonica
Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia