2023-07-30 14:47:25
Back to the start 10 minutes until the race begins! Last moments before the start of the last race before the break! Let’s go with it! On this day, 23 years ago at the German Grand Prix, Rubens Barrichello achieved the first of his 11 victories on the same day that David Coulthard left pole position for the 10th time (12 total). Belgium is the Grand Prix where the Alfa Romeo team has participated the most times in Formula 1 (there will be 14), and where it has achieved the most victories (2, as in Switzerland and France), the most pole positions (2, as in Italy, France and Switzerland) and most fastest laps (3). Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll has scored 45 points in 2023. This is his second-best scoring record in a year in the competition, only surpassed by 75 in 2020 with Racing Point. Belgium is the Grand Prix where Fernando Alonso has participated the most times (17) without achieving victory, pole position or fastest lap and where he has raced the most times with the least number of podiums (3) and points won (71). Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) has been outside the top 5 in 8 of the 11 races held in 2023 (counting DNFs). It is his worst record after 11 races since 2020 (also 8) and only in 2018, his first year in the competition, did he do worse (11/11). McLaren has scored 58 points in the last two Formula 1 races, as many points as in the previous 13 combined in the competition. Lando Norris has finished on the podium in two consecutive races for the first time in Formula 1 (2nd in Great Britain and Hungary). If he succeeds at Spa, he will become the first McLaren driver to finish on the podium in three consecutive races since Lewis Hamilton between Australia and China in 2012 (three 3rd-place finishes). Red Bull has won the last 12 races held in Formula 1, the absolute record for a team in the history of the competition. If he achieves the 13th, he will win the first 12 races on the calendar, which would also mean the record since the start of the season, surpassing McLaren’s 11 in 1988. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) has achieved the fastest lap in the last three races held in Formula 1, being the 22nd driver to succeed in chaining three grand prix with the fastest lap in the history of the competition. There have only been streaks of 4 or more races in a row with a fastest lap on seven occasions. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) has won each of the last seven races, being able to achieve in Belgium the second best historical streak of solo victories in the competition, surpassing the 7 of Alberto Ascari (between Belgium 1952 and Argentina 1953), 7 of Michael Schumacher (between Europe and Hungary in 2004) and 7 for Nico Rosberg (between Mexico 2015 and Russia 2016). Only Sebastian Vettel (9 between Belgium and Brazil in 2013) has achieved more. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) has achieved nine victories after 11 races in 2023. Only Michael Schumacher in 2004 (10/11) has had a better start to a season at this point in Formula 1 history. Max Verstappen (Red Bull ) has won each of the last two Belgian Grand Prix races. He may become the first driver to win three consecutive editions since Kimi Raikkonen in 2004, 2005 and 2007 (did not race in 2006). Seven of the last eight Belgian Grand Prix winners have started from the front row of the grid, six of them from pole position, with the sole exception of Max Verstappen in the 2022 edition, who started 14th. Only Michael Schumacher (16th in 1995 with Benetton) came from a further position to win at this grand prix. The Spa circuit is the fourth that has seen the most Formula 1 grands prix in the history of the competition (this will be the 56th) after Silverstone (58), Monaco (69) and Monza (72). Spa-Francorchamps is the longest circuit on the current Formula 1 calendar at 7,004 meters in length. Good afternoon and welcome once again to the big day of a Formula 1 weekend! Last race of the year before the August break! Spa, which continues to have a rebellious climate, is ready to experience this test!
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