Spa-Francorchamps
Race Date: 24 Aug 2014
Circuit Name: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
First Grand Prix: 1950
Number of Laps: 44
Circuit Length: 7.004 km
Race Distance: 308.052 km
Lap Record: 1:47.263 - S Vettel (2009)
UK Times
Fri 22 August 2014
Practice 1 09:00 - 10:30
Practice 2 13:00 - 14:30
Sat 23 August 2014
Practice 3 10:00 - 11:00
Qualifying 13:00
Sun 24 August 2014
Race 13:00
Previous Winners
2013 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Spa
2012 Jenson Button McLaren Spa
2011 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Spa
2010 Lewis Hamilton McLaren Spa
2009 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari Spa
2008 Felipe Massa Ferrari Spa
2007 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari Spa
2005 Kimi Raikkonen McLaren Spa
2004 Kimi Raikkonen McLaren Spa
2002 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Spa
2001 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Spa
2000 Mika Hakkinen McLaren Spa
1999 David Coulthard McLaren Spa
1998 Damon Hill Jordan Spa
1997 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Spa
1996 Michael Schumacher Ferrari Spa
1995 Michael Schumacher Benetton Spa
1994 Damon Hill Williams Spa
Alonso 2005 on board
Spa 1955
Andre Lotterer will replace Kamui Kobayashi at Caterham
Daniel Ricciardo joined the ranks of the multiple grand prix winners with his second victory of the year at the Hungaroring.
He is the 73rd driver to win more than one race, and joins other two-time winners such as Wolfgang von Trips, Patrick Depailler, Jean-Pierre Jabouille and Elio de Angelis.
On his way Red Bull passed their 3,000th lap in the lead. They are fifth in the all-time list but need almost twice as many again to catch Lotus, who are on 5,623.
For the second race in a row Hamilton broke his personal best record for most places gained during a race. Having made up 17 in Germany, he climbed 19 in Hungary (aided by Daniil Kvyat failing to get away on the formation lap). The all-time record position gain is 30 in a world championship race (Jim Rathmann, 1957 Indianapolis 500) and 26 in a Formula One race (Roberto Mieres, 1954 British Grand Prix), both of which are obviously unbreakable for now as the current grid is too small.
It was Mercedes 100th Formula One race and Hamilton’s 50th podium.
Alonso is now the only driver to have scored at every race this year – Nico Hulkenberg’s crash on lap 15 ended a 12-race run of points finishes which began at last year’s United States Grand Prix. Force India’s run of points finishes this year also came to an end when Sergio Perez crashed out.
Jenson Button became the eighth different driver to lead a race this year, heading the field for a single lap. The last time a season was completed with no more than eight different race leaders was in 2011.
Penalty points so far
Jules Bianchi 4
Pastor Maldonado 4
Valtteri Bottas 2
Kevin Magnussen 2
Adrian Sutil 2
Marcus Ericsson 2
Jean-Eric Vergne 1
. I suppose you expect the unexpected with Pastor...
