Not a lot, in all honesty.
There was controversy in qualifying when Nico Rosberg claimed pole position even though he went through a double-waved yellow flag section – and only lost a tenth of a second as a result. He claims he dropped off enough, but it doesn’t seem like a huge difference to me.
Anyway, the stewards felt he had and his pole position stood.
Lewis Hamilton took the lead at the start of the race and didn’t really look troubled at any point, claiming his fifth win of the season and with it the lead in the drivers’ championship.
There was some excitement at the start – Max Verstappen came within 0.002 seconds of Nico Rosberg’s fastest time in third practice on Saturday, so there was talk of a challenge to Mercedes’ continued dominance – but as the lights went out, Hamilton got a marginally better getaway than his pole-sitting team-mate.
Rosberg, with his team mate on his inside, had Daniel Ricciardo’s Red Bull charging through to pass him on the outside. Rosberg quickly passed him back again though around the outside of turn two.
The best on track action came from the near race-long duel between Max Verstappen’s Red Bull and Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari over fifth place. Raikkonen came through from 14th on the grid to get ahead of Verstappen after his first pitstop. Verstappen could not successfully pass Raikkonen and spent most of a stint behind the Ferrari.
After his final stop, Raikkonen was behind the Red Bull – ultimately they clashed with Raikkonen running into the back of Verstappen, not too drastically, but enough to damage his front wing.
