2012 Shell Belgian Grand Prix

[SpliT]

SHELL BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2012
Round 12. of 20

Circuit map:

Past Winners:
2011 - Sebastian Vettel
2010 - Lewis Hamilton
2009,2007,2005,2004 - Kimi Raikkonen
2008 - Felipe Massa
2002,2001,1997,1996,1995,1992 - Michael Schumacher

Driver Standings:

Spoiler:

1 Fernando Alonso 164
2 Mark Webber 124
3 Sebastian Vettel 122
4 Lewis Hamilton 117
5 Kimi Räikkönen 116
6 Nico Rosberg 77
7 Jenson Button 76
8 Romain Grosjean 76
9 Sergio Perez 47
10 Kamui Kobayashi 33
11 Pastor Maldonado 29
12 Michael Schumacher 29
13 Paul di Resta 27
14 Felipe Massa 25
15 Bruno Senna 24
16 Nico Hulkenberg 19
17 Jean-Eric Vergne 4
18 Daniel Ricciardo 2
19 Heikki Kovalainen 0
20 Vitaly Petrov 0
21 Timo Glock 0
22 Charles Pic 0
23 Narain Karthikeyan 0
24 Pedro de la Rosa 0

Constructor Standings:

Spoiler:

1 Red Bull Racing-Renault 246
2 McLaren-Mercedes 193
3 Lotus-Renault 192
4 Ferrari 189
5 Mercedes 106
6 Sauber-Ferrari 80
7 Williams-Renault 53
8 Force India-Mercedes 46
9 STR-Ferrari 6
10 Caterham-Renault 0
11 Marussia-Cosworth 0
12 HRT-Cosworth 0

Circuit info:
Race Date: 02 Sep 2012
Circuit Name: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Number of Laps: 44
Circuit Length: 7.004 km
Race Distance: 308.052 km
Lap Record: 1:45.108 - K Raikkonen (2004)

Timetable:
Friday 31 August 2012
Practice 1 9:00 - 10:30
Practice 2 13:00 - 14:30

Saturday 01 September 2012
Practice 3 10:00 - 11:00
Qualifying 13:00

Sunday 02 September 2012
Race 13:00

Other information:
- Tyres: Hard(silver) and Medium(white)
- Eliseo Salazar will be a driver stewart this weekend.
- DRS:
Detection point: 235m before T2
Activation point: 320m after T4
DRS is disabled at Eau Rouge.
- 5-place grid penalty for Mark Webber for gearbox change.
- 5-place grid penalty for Nico Rosberg for gearbox change.

Last year onboard with Alonso(P8)

[phil1993]

SPA *clap clap clap*




So many good races and memorable moments, even if the track isn't quite as good as it once was!

[SpliT]

Alonso has 23 points scoring finishes in a row. Schumacher had 24.

[tderias]

Alonso's Spa record isn't too good. *fingers crossed*.

[JoostLamers]

Raikkonen ftw

[f1freak]

I hope The King Of Spa Kimi wins this one. He already lost 2 oppurtunities once in Bahrain & then in Hungary.

[donald29]

Hoping for some rain so Schumi can do something special in his 300th Grand Prix. Hopefully it goes better than Rubens' .

Almost spooky how so many landmarks have happened at Spa for him.

1991 Debut.
1992 First win.
2001 Breaks the record for most number of wins.
2002 Becomes first driver to win 10 races in a season.
2004 Wins 7th Championship.
2011 20 years since debut, first driver to have a career spanning 20 years.
2012 300th Grand Prix.

Some brilliant wins in there too. 1995, 1996 and 1997 in particular.

[phil1993]

1994 - Disqualified
1998 - Hit Coulthard
1999 - Did not enter
2000 - Owned by Mika
2005 - Hit by Sato
2011 - Wheel failure in Q1

[donald29]

Don't get me started on 1994. Stupid disqualification. Was one of those very dubious decisions you get from time to time when it would tighten the championship a bit...

He completely owned that track in the 90s.

I was pissed off in qualifying last year. Was sat round just before Pouhon so he didn't even get round to me on his out lap! Made up for it in the race though.

Can't believe it's been a year since I went there. Was a brilliant weekend. Eau Rouge is so steep, couldn't fully appreciate until I walked it. I felt it in my legs afterwards!

Don't get back from holiday until the Sunday of Spa, hopefully will be home just in time for the race.

[F1Fan88]

Downforce levels will be interesting, either you run a Ferrari or Force India pack where you just have a slippery car with high top speed. Or you do what Mclaren does and run medium downforce but rely on the DRS keeping you on top of the times in Qualifying.

[darrenyc]

I quite fancy hamilton's chances at Spa. He has quite a decent record there.

07 4th
08 win demoted to 3rd
09 taken out on 1st lap
10 1st
11 crash with kobayashi

[iceman1]

Don't get back from holiday until the Sunday of Spa, hopefully will be home just in time for the race.

Enjoy it.

I put $10 on Raikkonen

[eleanor]

Hoping for some rain so Schumi can do something special in his 300th Grand Prix.

something is wrong here... at the end of 2011 season he had 287 GP starts so Spa won't be his 300th but Monza

[tderias]

Wikipedia: 299 GPs (298 starts). Can anyone explain?

[phil1993]

He has entered 299 races but didn't start France 1996 when his engine expired on the formation lap, hence 298 starts.