Despite a familiar result, the return to its classic layout brought a refreshed challenge to F1 drivers in the Spanish GP. Here's 10 things we learned from the Barcelona weekend.
That Verstappen could afford to make a few mistakes, skirt the lines of a track limits penalty, and still cruise to victory at Barcelona was a colossal hammer blow to every other team on the grid. The circuit was always going to expose Red Bull's advantage, as it's always been a circuit that prioritises car performance over driving prowess, but the difference between the drivers of the RB19 was laid even barer.
Crucially, none of these changes has appeared to have stripped the team of the positives already embedded within the W14. Barcelona proved to be a study of which teams were struggling most with tyre degradation, and that Mercedes was able to make the soft tyres last without a comprehensive drop-off in performance was testament to its mastery in that particular area.
It was even worse last year. The big, bulky ground effect cars of the common era looked particularly out of place in 2022's grand prix, losing all aero performance on the high kerbs, and so F1 saw fit to undo the damage done 15 years ago. With a closer field spread, future races have the potential to get very interesting indeed, particularly as varying degradation levels allowed for drivers to get close in those final two corners.Ferrari is starting to slip behind in fourth in the F1 standings as its woes continuedstarred in qualifying at his home race to hurl his Ferrari SF-23 onto the front row alongside Verstappen.
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