RACE START: Watch the getaway in Barcelona as George Russell spectacularly storms from P4 on the grid into the lead

It was an exhilarating begin to Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix as George Russell remarkably bolted from fourth on the grid into the lead by the primary nook – charging his well past a bunch of rival drivers.

Making a surprising getaway, Russell cleared Mercedes workforce mate Lewis Hamilton, Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen after which the pole-sitting McLaren of Lando Norris with a sweeping transfer across the outdoors of Flip 1.

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Verstappen additionally bought the leap on Norris to run second, whereas Hamilton held fourth over the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, because the vehicles behind squabbled for place however saved it clear.

Russell’s lead proved to be short-lived, although, with Verstappen passing him in the beginning of the third lap to take over on the entrance of the sector and start to edge away from the competitors.

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