2015 Spanish Grand Prix
| Race details | |||
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| Race 5 of 19 in the 2015 Formula One season | |||
Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya
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| Date | 10 May 2015 | ||
| Official name | Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2015 | ||
| 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, 307.104 km (190.826 mi) | ||
| Weather | Sunny 25 °C (77 °F) air temperature 44 °C (111 °F) track temperature 1.8 m/s (5.9 ft/s) wind from the northeast |
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| Attendance | 86,700 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:24.681 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Lewis Hamilton
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:28.270 on lap 54 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Ferrari | ||
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The 2015 Spanish Grand Prix, formally titled the Formula 1 Gran Premio de España Pirelli 2015, was a Formula One motor race held on 10 May 2015 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Montmeló, Spain. The race was the fifth round of the 2015 season and marked the forty-fifth running of the Spanish Grand Prix as a round of the Formula One World Championship and the twenty-fifth running at Catalunya. Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg took his first win of the season, his first in Spain and the ninth of his career. His team-mate Lewis Hamilton finished second after a bad start, followed by Sebastian Vettel in third.
Mercedes were expected to be dominant in Barcelona, since it was at the circuit that their advantage per lap had been biggest in 2014 and they had shown strong form at the two pre-season tests at the circuit.
After problems with their engine in the first races, which saw Daniel Ricciardo down to his last power unit after just four outings, Renault introduced a new, modified engine for the Spanish Grand Prix, aiming to improve both reliability and drivability.
Ferrari brought new parts to Barcelona, but Kimi Räikkönen was unsatisfied with the handling of his car, switching back to the earlier setup for the third practice session. He later conceded that "maybe it would have been better with the new bits."McLaren arrived in Barcelona with a new dark grey livery in order to "improv[e] its visual impact [...] for the floodlights increasingly used in twilight and night races," a team representative said.
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