The 2022 F1 Belgian Grand Prix has produced some pretty amazing numbers. Most of it is due to race winner Max Verstappen, but the Red Bull Racing man wasn’t the only one to give us some compelling numbers to consider after the Spa-Francorjan race.
In the 2022 F1 Round 14 Belgian Grand Prix, Max Verstappen won with dominant speed from the 14th grid. The gap with the 2nd place was about 18 seconds. Verstappen won a come-from-behind victory from 10th on the grid in the previous race in Hungary.
● Only the second driver in F1 history to win consecutive races from 10th or lower on the grid. The first was McLaren founder Bruce, who won the final race in 1959 and the opening race in 1960. McLaren.
● Red Bull Racing won the race from outside the top 6 only once until the previous round, the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix, but won two races in a row.
● The 2022 F1 Hungarian Grand Prix was the victory from the lowest grid in the history of Red Bull Racing.
• Max Verstappen has never led a green flag lap at Spa-Francorchamps until today. Today Verstappen started his 14th place and led the race by the end of his 12th lap.
● With Max Verstappen’s ninth victory this season, he is one win closer to his own record of 10 wins in 2021 when he won the F1 World Championship.
● Sergio Pérez finished second, giving Red Bull Racing its 21st 1-2 finish. 2022 will be his fourth after Imola, Spain and Azerbaijan.
• Sergio Pérez has never finished in the top four at Spa-Francorchamps until today.
● For Sergio Perez, it was his seventh top-two finish of the season (he only had five top-two finishes in his F1 career until 2022).
● Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. finished 3rd. It was his seventh podium finish of the season, two more than his team-mate Charles Leclerc.
• Carlos Sainz Jr. has only run two laps in the last three years of the F1 Belgian Grand Prix and has never finished higher than 10th at Spa-Francorchamps.
• George Russell’s fourth-place finish for Mercedes was two places lower than his Williams-era result at last year’s washed-out F1 Belgian Grand Prix.
• George Russell has finished in the top five at every race this year, with the exception of Silverstone, where he retired at Turn 1.
● Charles Leclerc received a 5 second time penalty for speeding in the pitlane and was demoted from 5th to 6th.
● Fernando Alonso was promoted to fifth due to Charles Leclerc’s penalty. This equals the Alpine F1 Team’s best result of the season (Alonso’s twice and team-mate Esteban Ocon’s once).
● Fernando Alonso scored points for the ninth consecutive race, despite a collision with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton on the first lap.
● Also Fernando Alonso’s best result at Spa-Francorchamps since second in 2013.
• Charles Leclerc’s sixth place means only one podium finish in the last nine races (win in Austria).
● Esteban Ocon finished 7th on the 6th anniversary of his F1 debut at the 2016 F1 Belgian Grand Prix.
• Sebastian Vettel’s 8th place is the best Aston Martin F1 result since 6th place in Baku in mid-June.
● Scuderia AlphaTauri ended a five-race no-point streak with Pierre Gasly’s 9th place finish. Gasly made his 100th Grand Prix start.
• In 10th place, Alexander Albon earned his third points finish of the season for Williams.
It will be the fifth time Lewis Hamilton has retired on the first lap of his 302-race F1 career, but it will be the third first lap retirement at Spa-Francorchamps after 2009 and 2012. .
Category: F1 / F1 Belgian Grand Prix / red bull / Max Verstappen