May 10, 2015 – Nico Rosberg won the 2015 Spanish Grand Prix in some style on Sunday, defeating Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton by 17.5s in Barcelona to reinvigorate his world championship campaign. After an excellent getaway from pole, Rosberg never looked back and led from start to finish.
For Ferrari, finishing 45s back from Rosberg was a major disappointment. Worse still for the Scuderia, Kimi Raikkonen could not displace fellow countryman Valtteri Bottas, who drove a sterling race to fourth. Williams team mate Felipe Massa meanwhile climbed from ninth on the grid to sixth behind the red car.
Daniel Ricciardo hauled his Red Bull to a lapped seventh and Romain Grosjean survived a brush with Lotus team mate Pastor Maldonado, and then an overshoot during a pit stop, to take eighth.
Local hero Carlos Sainz had an eventful afternoon in his Toro Rosso, slipping down the order in the opening half of the race before recovering to ninth by the chequered flag ahead of Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat.
Max Verstappen couldn’t resist his team mate’s late charge so finished 11th ahead of Sauber’s Felipe Nasr, while Force India’s Sergio Perez led home a big four-car scrap for 13th as he, the other Sauber of Marcus Ericsson, team mate Nico Hulkenberg and McLaren’s Jenson Button were covered by 1.9s after 66 laps.
