2014 Spanish Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 5 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season | |||
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
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| Date | 11 May 2014 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2014 | ||
| Location |
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya Montmeló, Spain |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 4.655 km (2.892 mi) | ||
| Distance | 66 laps, 307.024 km (190.826 mi) | ||
| Weather | Overcast | ||
| Attendance | 150,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:25.232 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Sebastian Vettel
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Red Bull Racing-Renault | |
| Time | 1:28.918 on lap 55 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Red Bull Racing-Renault | ||
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The 2014 Spanish Grand Prix, formally known as the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2014, was a Formula One motor race that was held on 11 May 2014 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. The race was the fifth round of the 2014 season, and marked the forty-fourth running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship, and the twenty-fourth running at Catalunya.
The Mercedes team continued to dominate the 2014 Formula One season, Lewis Hamilton winning the race after holding off a late challenge from his team mate Nico Rosberg. Daniel Ricciardo secured his first Formula One podium by finishing third; he had previously been disqualified after finishing second in the 2014 Australian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel's fastest lap on lap 55, in his Red Bull RB10, marked the first time in the 2014 season that a car aside from a Mercedes accomplished the feat.
The Grand Prix was contested by eleven teams, each of two drivers. The teams, also known as constructors, were Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari, Lotus, McLaren, Force India, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Williams, Marussia and Caterham. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought four different tyre compounds for the race; two dry compounds, the hard "primes" and the medium "options" and two wet-weather compounds, the intermediate and full wet. The drag reduction system (DRS) had two activation zones for the race; one was on the start/finish straight from the final to first corners, and the second on the straight between turns 9 and 10.
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