Formula One statistics for Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, round 14 of the 22-race championship: Lap distance: 7.004km. Total distance: 308.052km (44 laps)
2021 pole position: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull One minute 59.765 seconds. 2021 race winner: Verstappen
Race lap record: 1:46.286, Valtteri Bottas (Finland, Mercedes 2018) Start time: 1300GMT (1500 local)
BELGIUM Last year’s race was Formula One’s shortest, lasting three laps due to heavy rain after starting from the pitlane behind the safety car. The final classification was set after two laps and half-points awarded.
This year’s will be the 55th Belgian Grand Prix at Spa. Eleven of the last 20 have been won from pole position. Spa is the longest lap in F1 and one of the fastest, with an average speed of around 230kph. Cars are flat out for about 70% of the time and reach 315kph at Blanchimont.
Five current drivers have won at Spa: Lewis Hamilton (2010, 2015, 2017, 2020), Sebastian Vettel (2011, 2013, 2018), Daniel Ricciardo (2014), Charles Leclerc (2019), Verstappen (2021). Michael Schumacher won a record six times at Spa, including from 16th on the grid in a wet 1995 race.
Safety cars have featured in the last six Belgian GPs. There is no Belgian driver on the starting grid but McLaren’s Lando Norris and Verstappen both have Belgian mothers.
RACE WINS Red Bull have won nine of 13 races this season and Ferrari the rest. Verstappen has won eight, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz three and one respectively, and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez one.
Mercedes’ Hamilton has a record 103 wins from 301 starts. The seven times world champion last won a race in Saudi Arabia last December and is now on the longest streak of his career without a win. Ferrari have won 242 races since 1950. McLaren have 183 wins, Mercedes 124, Williams 115 and Red Bull 84.
POLE POSITION Leclerc has had seven poles this year, Verstappen three, Perez, Sainz and Russell one each.
Hamilton has a record 103 career poles, most recently in Saudi Arabia last year. FASTEST LAP
Six drivers have taken fastest laps this season. Leclerc took the bonus point in the first three races, Verstappen in Imola, Miami and Austria, Perez in Spain and Azerbaijan, McLaren’s Lando Norris in Monaco, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in Canada and France and Hamilton in Britain and Hungary.
POINTS Verstappen leads Leclerc by 80 points. Red Bull lead Ferrari by 97 points in the constructors’ standings.
Williams’ Nicholas Latifi is the only race driver yet to score this season. Mercedes are the only team to have scored in every race and Hamilton the only driver to have reached the chequered flag throughout.
MILESTONE Red Bull’s next front row start will be the team’s 150th.
Verstappen’s win in Hungary was the 28th of his career, taking him ahead of triple world champion Jackie Stewart in the all-time lists. The next driver ahead of him is 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell (31 wins).
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