Lewis Hamilton finally seized the 2014 championship lead for the first time after beating Nico Rosberg to victory at the Spanish GP after a race-long game of strategic cat and mouse distilled into a tense showdown.Two months on from his mechanical-induced retirement in Australia that effectively gave Rosberg a 25-point headstart in the title race, Hamilton's fourth consecutive victory and first ever at Barcelona finally usurped his Mercedes stable-mate from the summit. But, like in Bahrain, it was the closest of close run things. Adopting reverse tyre strategies from the second stint onwards after Hamilton had converted his pole into the race lead, Rosberg eradicated what had been his...
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