The grid position of the top three is the same as two weeks ago in Baku, but will the result be the same? Valterri Bottas is on pole, Lewis Hamilton is second, and Sebastian Vettel is third, which is exactly how it finished in Baku. Mercedes are going for a fifth straight 1-2 in Barcelona, giving the season a sense of being a procession, though it is Bottas who is blazing a trail with his third straight pole. Hamilton, meanwhile, is going for this third straight win at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
The Ferrari pair of Vettel and Leclerc are split by Max Verstappen in his Red Bull.