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JOE KRISHNAN

Spanish Grand Prix – LIVE results! Valteri Bottas starts ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel

Valtteri Bottas will start the Spanish Grand Prix on pole after qualifying fastest as Mercedes continued their dominant start to the Formula One season.

The Finn put in an extraordinary lap in Q3 to go six tenths of a second clear of team-mate Lewis Hamilton, highlighting his meteoric rise back to prominence after a forgettable 2018 season.

Ferrari's woes continued in Barcelona as Sebastian Vettel struggled to close in on the German team, starting on the second row as Max Verstappen split the Ferraris, with Charles Leclerc in fifth.

Pierre Gasly qualified in sixth, equalling his best qualifying session of the season, with Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen in seventh and eighth for Haas.

Daniel Ricciardo scraped through into Q3 ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris but the Australian faces a three-place grid penalty after his collision with Daniil Kvyat in Baku, who starts ninth.

With Mercedes winning all four of the opening races of the season, with Bottas and Hamilton winning two races each, it seems like it's their race to lose after extending their pace advantage over Ferrari.

Can the German team make it five one-two finishes in a row in Catalunya?

Follow the action LIVE from the Circuit de Catalunya.

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