Four-in-a-row for Hamilton despite Rosberg's late charge and tetchy radio messages; Red Bull finish 50 seconds behind, but Vettel salvages fourth; Alonso wins wheel-to-wheel Raikkonen duel at Ferrari
Sunday 11 May 2014 18:10, UK
Lewis Hamilton seized the 2014 World Championship lead for the first time after beating Nico Rosberg to Spanish GP victory in after a race-long game of strategic cat and mouse distilled into a tense final-stint showdown between the utterly dominant Mercedes pair.
Keeping the two MP4-29s out of the points were the fellow Mercedes-powered Force Indias, Sergio Perez scoring an important intra-team victory over Nico Hulkenberg on this occasion to finish ninth. For the Mercedes works team, however, a fourth consecutive one-two means the team are now regularly achieving the rarest of things: Formula 1 perfection.