Five one-twos from five races. That’s where Mercedes’ record now stands in 2019 after Lewis Hamilton led home Valtteri Bottas at the Spanish Grand Prix. It’s an unprecedented streak of dominance in F1 – and as Hamilton was quick to point out following his third win of the season, the team’s achievements in 2019 are undoubtedly “history in the making”.

The seeds of Hamilton’s comfortable victory over Bottas were sewn at the race start, as he blasted away from P2 on the grid – where he’d ended up after by the Finn yesterday – while clutch issues saw Bottas make a slow getaway.

Hamilton was emphatically in the lead by Turn 3, and from then on wouldn’t be headed

“This is history in the making to have five one-twos,” said Hamilton after the race. “Today was about trying to redeem myself from my poor performance yesterday.

“Yesterday was a bit of a nightmare, but race pace has generally been quite good for me, I’ve been really happy, comfortable generally in the races. When we went out to do the laps to the grid, I wasn’t very happy with the balance still, so I had to make some changes, had to alter my driving style a little bit, but it worked well in the race scenario.”