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25px Belgium  2014 Belgian Grand Prix
Race details[1][2]
Race 12 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season
Layout of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
Layout of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
Date 24 August 2014
Official name 2014 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix
Location Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Stavelot, Belgium
Course Permanent racing facility
7.004 km (4.352 mi)
Distance 44 laps, 308.052 km (191.415 mi)
Weather Dry and sunny
Pole position
Driver 25px Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
Time 2:05.591
Fastest lap
Driver 25px Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
Time 1:50.511 on lap 36
Podium
First 25px Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault
Second 25px Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
Third 25px Finland Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes

The 2014 Belgian Grand Prix (formally the 2014 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix)[1] was a Formula One motor race held on 24 August 2014 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium.[2] It was the twelfth round of the 2014 Formula One season, and the 70th Belgian Grand Prix. The race, contested over 44 laps, was won by Daniel Ricciardo for the Red Bull team, after starting from fifth position. Nico Rosberg finished second in a Mercedes, with Valtteri Bottas third for the Williams team.

The victory was Ricciardo's second consective win; he started from 4th on the grid to win the Hungarian Grand Prix four weeks prior. Rosberg's second place increased his gap to Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship to 29 points. Mercedes established an 157 point lead over Red Bull team in the Constructors' Championship, with seven races of the season remaining.[3]

Report[]

Background[]

The Grand Prix was contesed by eleven teams, each of two drivers. The teams, also known as constructors, were Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari, Lotus, McLaren, Force India, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Williams, Marussia and Caterham. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought four different tyre compounds for the race; two dry compounds, the medium "primes" and the soft "options" and two wet-weather compounds, the intermediate and full wet. The drag reduction system (DRS) had two activation zones for the race; one was on the start/finish straight from the final to first corners, and the second on the straight between turns four and five.[4]

Going into the race, Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg led the Drivers' Championship with 202 points, ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton with 191 points and Daniel Ricciardo with 131. Fernando Alonso was fourth with 115 points while Valtteri Bottas was fifth with 95 points.[4] In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes were leading with 393 points and Red Bull were second with 219 points. Ferrari with 142 points and Williams with 135 points contended for third place, with Force India fifth with 98 points.[4] Mercedes had so far dominated the championship, winning nine out of the eleven previous races, with Ricciardo winning the Canadian and Hungarian Grand Prix. Kevin Magnussen, Bottas and Alonso had each gained second place finishes, and Vettel, Jenson Button and Sergio Pérez had achieved third place podium finishes.[4]

There were two driver changes heading into the race. Having been in one of the two Caterham cars since the first race of the season in Australia, Kamui Kobayashi was replaced by three-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner André Lotterer.[5] The second driver change was Alexander Rossi who was drafted into Marussia to replace Max Chilton. Chilton had part of the team since the first round and was sidelined for Belgium, as a result of "contractual issues".[6] Marussia later announced on August 22 that Chilton's race seat was reinstated, and Rossi only took part in the event's first practice session.[7]

Practice and qualifying[]

Three practice sessions were held before the race; two 90 minute sessions on Friday and one lasting an hour on Saturday.[8] Rosberg was the fastest driver in the first practice session, ahead of Hamilton and Alonso.[9] Hamilton was fastest in the second session, ahead of Rosberg, Alonso and Felipe Massa – although the Mercedes driver had run wide during the practice session. The session was disrupted by incidents as Pastor Maldonado struck the barriers and Esteban Gutiérrez spun off – both incidents requiring a suspension as marshals needed to clear the track of both cars.[10]

The qualifying session on Saturday afternoon was split into three parts. The first part ran for 18 minutes and eliminated the cars from qualifying that finished 17th or lower. During this session, the 107% rule was in effect, which necessitated each driver to set a time within 107% of the quickest lap to qualify for the race. The second part of qualifying lasted 15 minutes and eliminated cars in positions 11 to 16. The final part of qualifying determined positions from first to tenth, and decided pole position.[8]

Rosberg took his seventh pole positions of the season, and his first at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, with a time of 2:05.591.[11]

Race[]

The race started at 14:00 local time (UTC+1). The conditions on the grid were dry before the race. Alonso's car stalled on the grid, and later got off the grid to retake his starting position. The race was made controversial when on lap 2 the two Mercedes drivers collided going into Les Combes, puncturing Hamilton's tire and damaging Rosberg's front wing.[12] The incident was later deemed Rosberg's fault by the Mercedes team.[13]

Post-race[]

The race result left Rosberg leading the Drivers' Championship with 220 points. Hamilton, who failed to score in Belgium, was second with 191 points, 35 points ahead of Ricciardo and 70 ahead of Alonso. Bottas was fifth with 110 points. In the Constructors' Championship, Mercedes maintained their lead with 411 points, Red Bull retained second with 254 points, and Ferrari remained in third with 160 points, with seven races of the season remaining.

Classification[]

Qualifying[]

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 Grid
1 6 25px Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 2:07.130 2:06.723 2:05.591 1
2 44 25px Great Britain Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 2:07.280 2:06.609 2:05.819 2
3 1 25px Germany Sebastian Vettel Red BullRenault 2:10.105 2:08.868 2:07.717 3
4 14 25px Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 2:10.197 2:08.450 2:07.786 4
5 3 25px Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red BullRenault 2:10.089 2:08.989 2:07.911 5
6 77 25px Finland Valtteri Bottas WilliamsMercedes 2:09.250 2:08.451 2:08.049 6
7 20 25px Flag of Denmark Kevin Magnussen McLarenMercedes 2:11.081 2:08.901 2:08.679 7
8 7 25px Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 2:09.885 2:08.646 2:08.780 8
9 19 25px Brazil Felipe Massa WilliamsMercedes 2:08.403 2:08.833 2:09.178 9
10 22 25px Great Britain Jenson Button McLarenMercedes 2:10.529 2:09.272 2:09.776 10
11 26 25px The flag of the Russian Federation Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 2:10.445 2:09.377 11
12 25 25px France Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 2:09.811 2:09.805 12
13 11 25px Mexico Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 2:10.666 2:10.084 13
14 99 25px Germany Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 2:11.051 2:10.238 14
15 8 25px France Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 2:10.898 2:11.087 15
16 17 25px France Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari 2:11.051 2:12.470 16
17 13 25px The flag of Venezuela Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault 2:11.261 17
18 27 25px Germany Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 2:11.267 18
19 4 25px Great Britain Max Chilton Marussia-Ferrari 2:12.566 19
20 21 25px Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 2:13.414 20
21 45 25px Germany André Lotterer Caterham-Renault 2:13.469 21
22 9 25px Sweden Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 2:14.438 22
107% time: 2:16.029
Source:[14]

Race[]

Pos. No. Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 3 25px Australia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 44 1:24:36.556 5 25
2 6 25px Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 44 +3.383 1 18
3 77 25px Finland Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 44 +28.032 6 15
4 7 25px Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 44 +36.815 8 12
5 1 25px Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 44 +52.196 3 10
6 22 25px Great Britain Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 44 +54.580 10 8
7 14 25px Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 44 +1:01.162 4 6
8 11 25px Mexico Sergio Pérez Force India-Mercedes 44 +1:04.293 13 4
9 26 25px The flag of the Russian Federation Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 44 +1:05.347 11 2
10 27 25px Germany Nico Hülkenberg Force India-Mercedes 44 +1:05.697 18 1
11 25 25px France Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 44 +1:11.920 12
12 1 20 25px Flag of Denmark Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 44 +1:14.262 7
13 19 25px Brazil Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 44 +1:15.975 9
14 99 25px Germany Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 44 +1:22.447 14
15 21 25px Mexico Esteban Gutiérrez Sauber-Ferrari 44 +1:30.825 20
16 4 25px Great Britain Max Chilton Marussia-Ferrari 43 +1 lap 19
17 9 25px Sweden Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 43 +1 lap 22
18 17 25px France Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari 39 Gearbox 16
Ret 44 25px Great Britain Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 38 Collision damage 2
Ret 8 25px France Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 33 Power unit 15
Ret 45 25px Germany André Lotterer Caterham-Renault 1 Electrical 21
Ret 13 25px The flag of Venezuela Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault 1 Exhaust 17
Source:[15]

1 — Kevin Magnussen originally finished sixth but had 20s added to race time for forcing Fernando Alonso off track.[15]

Standings after the race[]

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos. Driver Points
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 1 25px Germany Nico Rosberg 220
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 2 25px Great Britain Lewis Hamilton 191
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 3 25px Australia Daniel Ricciardo 156
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 4 25px Spain Fernando Alonso 121
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 5 25px Finland Valtteri Bottas 110
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos. Constructor Points
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 1 25px Germany Mercedes 411
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 2 25px Austria Red Bull-Renault 254
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 3 25px Italy Ferrari 160
Nuvola single chevron right.svg 4 25px Great Britain Williams-Mercedes 150
1uparrow green.svg 1 5 25px Great Britain McLaren-Mercedes 105
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References[]

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  12. "Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg crashed into him on purpose in Belgian Grand Prix". Daily Telegraph. 24 August 2014. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorsport/formulaone/11054124/Lewis-Hamilton-says-Mercedes-team-mate-Nico-Rosberg-crashed-into-him-on-purpose-in-Belgian-Grand-Prix.html. Retrieved 26 August 2014. 
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