Despite failing to make the top 10 cut during qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix, Daniel Ricciardo will start on the fourth row of the grid due to a plethora of grid penalties. The Australian driver came within a tenth of making it into Q3 but was beaten late on by an incredible lap by
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The Belgian Grand Prix looks set to be an absolute thriller, with title protagonists Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc starting P14 and P15 respectively. Both have taken grid penalties due to an engine change after exceeding their allowed limit, with Leclerc having exceeded the number of legal power units back at the Canadian Grand Prix.
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Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has confirmed that the Belgian Grand Prix will remain on the calendar for the 2023 season. The race had been called into doubt previously due to the influx of new venues in Formula 1 worldwide. Netflix docuseries, Drive to Survive, sparked a great deal of interest in F1 when it
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Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was slightly concerned by Red Bull’s pace during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix after Max Verstappen’s stunning lap. The Scuderia had initially looked solid in practice in Spa, with Sainz leading Charles Leclerc in FP1 as Verstappen wound up third. However, the Dutchman took the fastest lap by eight tenths of
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Charles Leclerc moved to ease the pressure on his Ferrari team after their latest error during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix. The Monegasque entered the weekend with engine penalties that were set to put him on the eighth row of the grid alongside Max Verstappen, so he was not fighting for pole. His team-mate,
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Lando Norris and Max Verstappen had a hilarious interaction after the Dutchman dominated qualifying at the 2022 Belgian Grand Prix. Verstappen and Norris both received engine penalties ahead of the weekend that will see them start at the back, but they have joined by a multitude of others. Mick Schumacher, Zhou Guanyu, Esteban Ocon and
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Max Verstappen has highlighted the importance of making moves quickly at the Belgian Grand Prix as he seeks to finish on the rostrum. The Dutchman, along with title rival Charles Leclerc, came into the weekend with engine penalties that would see him start at the back of the grid. There was a saving grace though,
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Red Bull team principal, Christian Horner, made a naughty comment when asked about the compromised changes to the technical regulations for 2023. “Porpoising” and bouncing have been debated all season by the teams, with Mercedes keen to find a solution amid the physical dangers of it. A technical directive was introduced in Montreal in a
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Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff is struggling to understand how the Silver Arrows went from pole position in Hungary to the fourth row in Belgium. The Silver Arrows had been showing real signs of improvement in the lead-up to the summer break, with Sir Lewis Hamilton and George Russell managing eight podiums in the last
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Daniel Ricciardo still has ambitions to race at the front in the coming years in a competitive car, and his dismissal by McLaren has not deterred him from that. The 33-year-old signed from Renault at the end of the 2020 season as he tried to climb to the top of the midfield pack, and he
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