2021 F1 World Championship, Spanish Grand Prix To Thrill Fans

THE fourth round of the 2021 Formula 1 World Championship, the Spanish Grand Prix will be live from the Circuit de BarcelonaCatalunya tomorrow at 1: 55pm on Supersport Grandstand and Supersport Motorsport ( Dstv channel 201 & 215).

The third round of the season in Portugal this past weekend saw Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton claim a dominant victory to open an eight- point lead over Red Bull Racing pilot Max Verstappen in the Drivers’ Championship.

The Silver Arrows were the dominant force at Portimao, with Valtteri Bottas claiming pole position and the fastest lap, while Hamilton’s race pace was far beyond anything Verstappen could manage – though the Dutchman did manage to outmaneuver Bottas for second place.

“That was such a tough race – physically and mentally,” Hamilton said after the match. “Just keeping everything together. It’s very windy out there, so it’s very easy to just put a foot wrong. I just didn’t quite get as good a start as Valtteri and lost out on the restart, which was not good. I was not happy about that, naturally.

“I really had to try and position myself the best that I could, I can’t remember but I think Max made a mistake at some point on the lap which was perfect, and I knew that was the lap where I was going to be as close as I could to him in the last sector.

“Then with Valtteri, I had to make the move early on before the tyres were destroyed and managed to just get him into turn one, just right on the limit. Just great racing.”

According to former F1 driver Nico Rosberg – the only man to beat Hamilton in a title fight in the hybrid era – Verstappen is now “starting to understand better and better how good Lewis Hamilton is” and believes that the pressure is starting to show.