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With Verstappen’s tyres also fading in the final laps, Ricciardo was flying in fourth place. Albon, Ocon and Norris slugging it out.Hamilton taking it easy now and the gap to Bottas is dropping. It's an incredible mentality and we're continuing to learn about ourselves and the car and improve weekend in and weekend out. Lewis Hamilton secures 93rd-career pole as Briton puts in flawless display at Spa ahead of Belgian Grand Prix while Ferrari have another day to forget. This service is provided on News Group Newspapers' Limited's Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. “I never heard that,” retorted Bottas.Any worries Mercedes might have had about an intra-team battle were neutralised however, as Giovinazzi lost his Alfa Romeo on the exit of the Fagnes chicane, smearing his C39 down the outside wall and losing a tyre which then bounced scarily into the path of the following George Russell.Fortunately, it only took off Russell’s own right-front wheel, with both drivers ending up parked next to each other before emerging from their cars shaken but healthy, and very much out of the race.The Safety Car was duly brought out as the two cars were recovered, and the debris swept up, with all bar Gasly and Perez pitting, meaning that at the Lap 15 restart it was Hamilton from Bottas, Verstappen, Gasly, Perez, Ricciardo and Albon – who’d managed to jump Ocon in the pits, with the Thai driver the only one to take on mediums in the stop, as everyone else opted for hards.Hamilton nailed the restart and the order was unchanged bar Stroll taking Norris for ninth, while on Lap 16, Raikkonen demoted the works Ferrari of Vettel to P13 – Vettel having jumped Leclerc in the pits, after Ferrari weren’t ready for the Monegasque, leaving him stationary for 10.4s. Bottas came home around eight seconds behind his team mate, with Verstappen a further seven seconds down the road.Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo led home the team’s best finish of the year in fourth, crossing the line under four seconds behind Verstappen after some rapid final laps, with Esteban Ocon overtaking the Red Bull of Alex Albon on the final tour to take fifth, Albon just holding onto sixth from the McLaren of Lando Norris.An impressive drive from Pierre Gasly saw him take eighth for AlphaTauri, while the final points were taken by the Racing Point pair of Lance Stroll and Sergio Perez in P9 and P10 – with the Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc finishing out of the points in P13 and P14 respectively.McLaren’s Carlos Sainz was unable to take the race start after a power unit led to an exhaust issue, while there was a Safety Car after 11 laps of 44, after a Meanwhile, Hamilton’s fourth Belgian Grand Prix win sees him draw equal with Jim Clark and Kimi Raikkonen on third in the all-time list for Spa victories, behind Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna.As they slipstreamed down to Les Combes – Hamilton recovering from a small wobble on the exit of La Source – the top four jostled for position, but ultimately, the order remained unchanged.Hamilton led Bottas through the corner, while Ricciardo got down the inside of Verstappen and tried to tough it out around the outside of the left-hand part of the chicane, before Verstappen ran him out of road – Ricciardo then nearly managing to sneak through when Verstappen subsequently ran wide at Malmedy, before eventually accepting his fourth place.Behind, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc had elected to start on the softs, and used them well to jump four places on the first lap up to P9, while Antonio Giovinazzi and Kevin Magnussen were on the move too, making up four and five places respectively on the first tour.Pierre Gasly had jumped his AlphaTauri team mate Daniil Kvyat for P10 at the start despite being shod with hard tyres to Kvyat’s mediums.

His tyres are at the end of their life.He is going to have to look after these tyres until the end of the race.The Brit is now up to 7th place and five seconds behind Ocon. Ultimately, Gasly was then unable to resist the superior speed of either Albon or Ocon, who passed on Lap 24 and Lap 26 respectively.With the race settling down metronomically in the middle laps, it was only the alternative-strategied Perez and Gasly who were making serious waves, as they climbed their way into the points after their offset stops, with Gasly then nipping past Perez on the Kemmel Straight for P9 on Lap 40, before getting the second Racing Point of Stroll three laps later.With three laps to go, Hamilton was seven seconds clear of Bottas, who was a further 7s up the road from Verstappen – although both Mercedes drivers were worried about the condition of their tyres, with some nervy radio calls to the team as fears of a 70th Anniversary GP-style repeat ending appeared to bubble up in the Silver Arrows camps.Those fears ultimately proved unfounded, though, as Hamilton eased across the line to take his 89th victory, and fourth at Spa in a race where The real drama in the last act was just behind, however. “When I go back into the office the guys are thinking how we win the next race. A bit lonely.“We finished third and more than that was not possible today.”Second-placed Valtteri Bottas: “At the start it would've been a good opportunity and Lewis wasn't too fast out of turn one but I couldn't really get momentum to catch him. Verstappen labels Spa race "pretty boring" Max Verstappen found Sunday's Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix "pretty boring", believing he spent 38 of the 44 laps at Spa … The 2020 Belgian Grand Prix will be held at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Stavelot, Belgium from August 28-30. Weather forecast for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. It wasn't really enjoyable out there today.

Lewis Hamilton: “It wasn't the easiest of races. Verstappen: "Even with an old, big wing you can drive the same times" Mercedes had to use party mode as usual: "Margin wasn't big enough" The tyre temperatures were slowly dropping no matter how much i was pushing. Official Ticket Packages include grandstand seats, VIP hospitality inside the Champions Club plus unique benefits only available through F1 Experiences, such as F1 driver meet-and-greets and more! The 2016 Belgian Grand Prix (formally known as the 2016 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 28 August 2016 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium.It was the thirteenth round of the 2016 FIA Formula One World Championship, and marks the seventy-second running of the Belgian Grand Prix and the fifty-ninth time the race was held at Spa … He is nursing his tyres home.But the Red Bull man holds his own. Which drivers have won the Belgian Grand Prix? Coman straddled by fiancee on boat as Champs Lge hero relaxes in Sardinia Doucoure snubs Wolves and Fulham offers as Watford ace wants Everton move How Man Utd could line-up with Sergio Reguilon, Van de Beek and Sancho Miss BumBum Suzy Cortez becomes City fan after Barca's 'trash' Messi treatment McGregor's coach Kavanagh 'beat the s*** out of him' after flooring Aisling Daly©News Group Newspapers Limited in England No.

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