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2017 FORMULA 1 PIRELLI BELGIAN GRAND PRIX




Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Lap length 7.004km (4.352 miles)
Race laps 44
Race distance 308.052km (191.415 miles)
Pole position Right-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’47.263 (Sebastian Vettel, 2009)
Fastest lap 1’44.503 (Jarno Trulli, 2009, qualifying two)
Maximum speed 344kph (213.752 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight and Kemmel straight
Distance from grid to turn one 271m
Full throttle 70%
Longest flat-out section 2015m
Downforce level Medium
Gear changes per lap 42
Fuel use per lap 2.2kg
Time penalty per lap of fuel 0.088s

UK Times
Friday 25th August 2017
Belgian Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 9:00-10:30)
Belgian Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 13:00-14:30)
Saturday 26th August 2017
Belgian Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 11:00-12:00 (UK time: 10:00-11:00)
Belgian Grand Prix Qualifying: 14:00 (UK time: 13:00)
Sunday 27th August 2017
Belgian Grand Prix: 14:00 (UK time: 13:00)

Previous Winners
2016 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes Spa-Francorchamps
2015 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2014 Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
2011 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2010 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2009 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
2008 Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
2007 Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
2006 Not held
2005 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes Spa-Francorchamps
2004 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes
2003 Not held
2002 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari Spa-Francorchamps
2001 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2000 Finland Mika Häkkinen McLaren-Mercedes

Videos

Alesi onboard 1991


2016 F1 vs GP2


Facts from the previous race

Ferrari hit back at Mercedes in Hungary by taking their second one-two of 2017. Sebastian Vettel scored his 46th career win, meaning he has five more than Ayrton Senna and five less than Alain Prost.

Vettel’s victory meant F1 headed into the summer break without any driver having scored back-to-back wins so far this season. That’s remarkable considering between them Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg won four races in a row on three separate occasions last year.

The last time the first 11 races of the year did not feature any back-to-back winners was in 2013. On that occasion Vettel also won the 11th race – and then went on to win all the remaining races that year!

Hamilton’s charitable act towards his team mate means Valtteri Bottas has now finished on the podium for the last five races in a row. It was the eighth podium finish of the year for Bottas, giving him as many as Vettel and two more than Hamilton.

Vettel and Bottas were separated at the flag by Raikkonen, who’s now finished in the top three 18 times since his last victory in the 2013 Australian Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen’s rash move on lap one meant his team mate’s pre-race prediction that he wouldn’t finish in his starting position of sixth came true, though not in the way he would have expected. This was a very static race for those who started higher up, however: the top five drivers on the grid all started where they finished.

Felipe Massa’s absence from the Hungarian Grand Prix due to illness meant the race was the first without a Brazilian driver for 35 years.

Not since the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix, which several teams boycotted, has a race begun without a Brazilian driver in the field.

Paul di Resta’s arrival in the race provided plenty of meat for stats fans. He was the first driver to start a race using number 40 since Gabriele Tarquini qualified his AGS for the 1989 French Grand Prix.

Famously the number 40 was previously seen at the Hungaroring when Minardi allowed Chanoch Nissany to drive one of their cars during the first practice session in 2005. He was almost 13 seconds off the pace, and 6.7 seconds slower than team mate Christijan Albers.

Di Resta did incomparably better, qualifying just 0.766 seconds slower than Lance Stroll despite not having driven the car prior to qualifying. This was a fine effort given that he only had time for five flying laps in qualifying.

Finally, Fernando Alonso gave McLaren some cheer by recording the fastest lap of the race. This last happened more recently than you might imagine: Alonso did the fastest lap at Monza last year. This was the 23rd of his career, putting him level with Juan Manuel Fangio and Nelson Piquet.

Current Standings



Drivers’ Chosen Tyres

Summer break is over already, sweet!!!

Michael Schumacher's son will mark the 25th anniversary of his father's first Formula 1 win by driving at Spa before Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix.

Mick Schumacher, 18, will drive demonstration laps in a 1994 Benetton car, a family spokeswoman said.

That 25 years seems a long time to me for some reason.

Stoffel Vandoorne will serve a 35-place grid penalty at the Belgian GP due to a scheduled power unit change, McLaren have confirmed.
Both McLarens will be running spec 3.5 but Alonso won't have a grid penalty as he had the upgrade at Silverstone I think.

Really hope Mick does well in his career. Must have been a difficult thing to go through as a child.


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Palmer! Finally gets Q3, beating the Hulk, having his best quali and it's looking like unicorns, rainbows and lollipops...... and it goes BANG!

42's is some good going

Yes crazy fast these new cars but that is what F1 should be & it's about time they set the regs to allow it.

Qual results set it up for a showdown tomorrow. Let's hope it develops into a race long battle.

Wet race here would be just lovely. Otherwise it looks like Hamilton will be off into the distance.

Max seems to well and truly have the qual pace over Dan.


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Just when I think it's not possible for the Sky team to ram their tongues any further down Hamilton's arse they always seem to surprise me by going deeper every race.

I thought all the fuss made over the pole record was kind of over the top. Although I don't really think that stat is all that meaningful, and I'm sure others disagree. Race wins and championships are what matters in my opinion.

It bugged me that the commentators said something about not always having the best car. He's certainly always had a front running car, it's been there or there abouts since he entered the sport. It's almost as if they were making a point of it in some sort of preemptive defence.

The most annoying part of it is that Hamilton IS a good driver, undoubtably he is. But I don't think he's any better than several others out there right now. I certainly don't think he's good enough to be put in the Senna, Prost, Schumacher conversation just yet.


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The records will fall due to the number of races these guys compete in. Also Hamilton has only ever done a hard stint when Mclaren were being trumped by Red Bull.

Alonso radio: This is embarrassing - really embarrassing.

Oh Force India

Is Hamilton, the dumbest fuck bag ever?

I'm fucking sick of his fucking whinging. Oh he catches me, oh he's racing me, oh make him stop, mummy it's not fair!

Did Hamilton say he saw the British flags in amongst the Irish orange???

I'm no expert, but I would expect the orange are Dutch.

The orange is the Dutch, they're there for Max because it's the closest race for them to attend.

I thought they were McLaren fans

KNAPPO wrote:I thought they were McLaren fans

Honda says that it found nothing on its data to suggest that Fernando Alonso had a problem with his engine when he retired from the Belgian Grand Prix.

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/alon ... pa-946201/

It certainly seemed like he just gave up.
He can seriously only go backwards from here unless he goes to Renault... but is there a realistic chance of them reaching the front in the next 2 years? I doubt it!

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