Kimi Antonelli has been backed by F1 fans to take victory in Madrid and edge himself closer to F1 title glory.
He received substantially more votes than Lando Norris, who will start Sunday's race from pole position.
The championship leader qualified second for Sunday's race at the Madring, missing out on pole by just 0.011 seconds to Norris in a thrilling Q3 shootout.
Max Verstappen took third, with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc rounding out a top five covered by less than two tenths.
Despite starting behind Norris on the grid, it is Antonelli who has been declared the fans' favourite.
RacingNews365 ran a poll asking readers who they believed would take the chequered flag, and the Mercedes man came out on top with 39.31 per cent of the vote.
Hamilton is the second favourite with 16.64 per cent, while, perhaps surprisingly, pole-sitter Norris is only the fourth favourite, receiving slightly fewer votes than Verstappen.
You can read the full poll results below.
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