Charles Leclerc has taken pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix for Ferrari ahead of Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton.
| Row 1 | 1. (16) Charles Leclerc 1’46.988 Ferrari SF-23 | |
| 2. (11) Sergio Perez 1’47.045 Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB19 | ||
| Row 2 | 3. (44) Lewis Hamilton 1’47.087 Mercedes W14 | |
| 4. (55) Carlos Sainz Jnr 1’47.152 Ferrari SF-23 | ||
| Row 3 | 5. (81) Oscar Piastri 1’47.365 McLaren-Mercedes MCL60 | |
| 6. (1) Max Verstappen 1’46.168 Red Bull-Honda RBPT RB19 | ||
| Row 4 | 7. (4) Lando Norris 1’47.669 McLaren-Mercedes MCL60 | |
| 8. (63) George Russell 1’47.805 Mercedes W14 | ||
| Row 5 | 9. (14) Fernando Alonso 1’47.843 Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR23 | |
| 10. (18) Lance Stroll 1’48.841 Aston Martin-Mercedes AMR23 | ||
| Row 6 | 11. (22) Yuki Tsunoda 1’53.148 AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT AT04 | |
| 12. (10) Pierre Gasly 1’53.671 Alpine-Renault A523 | ||
| Row 7 | 13. (77) Valtteri Bottas 1’54.694 Alfa Romeo-Ferrari C43 | |
| 14. (31) Esteban Ocon 1’56.372 Alpine-Renault A523 | ||
| Row 8 | 15. (23) Alexander Albon 2’00.314 Williams-Mercedes FW45 | |
| 16. (20) Kevin Magnussen 1’54.160 Haas-Ferrari VF-23 | ||
| Row 9 | 17. (24) Zhou Guanyu 2’00.832 Alfa Romeo-Ferrari C43 | |
| 18. (2) Logan Sargeant 2’01.535 Williams-Mercedes FW45 | ||
| Row 10 | 19. (3) Daniel Ricciardo 2’02.159 AlphaTauri-Honda RBPT AT04 | |
| 20. (27) Nico Hulkenberg 2’03.166 Haas-Ferrari VF-23 |
Penalties
Max Verstappen: Five-place grid penalty for exceeding his allocation of gearbox components
Kevin Magnussen: Three-place grid penalty for impeding Charles Leclerc
Nico Hulkenberg: Pit lane start due to change of set-up
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2023 Belgian Grand Prix
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- Mercedes optimistic they’re “in the right place for winter” with development plan
- Ferrari not convinced by call to equalise engines: ‘Renault is not so far away’
- Ferrari staying “calm” amid swings in performance from race to race
- Pirelli proposes new “super-intermediate” to address wet weather tyre problems
Jere (@jerejj)
28th July 2023, 17:20
So P6 for Max as I predicted & most likely a victory with Checo taking the lead into Les Combes.
slowmo (@slowmo)
28th July 2023, 17:26
That was a great lap by Verstappen to be fair. I think he’ll absolutely destroy Checo and the rest of the field in the race though. I think he’d still win starting from the back with no safety car help!
Edvaldo
28th July 2023, 17:37
easy, easy. Spa is long enough that he can pick up positions with DRS one lap after the other with this car.
bosyber (@bosyber)
29th July 2023, 11:44
Yeah, another Verstappen win seems at least a likely outcome @jerejj, I have to agree with @slowmo and Edvaldo
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
28th July 2023, 20:34
Too bad he didn’t get knocked out in q2, he was 10th, so was close to happening: if it happened he’d have been 16th, making things more interesting, but probably a repeat of 2022.
David West
28th July 2023, 17:33
If he isn’t leading by lap 5 it’s a massive surprise.
A second quicker than everyone in the middle sector, cost cap working well.
Yellow Baron
28th July 2023, 17:58
Hopefully they actually race max hard to give a good race. Mind it womt be easy to defend with the fia’s lazy implementation of drs.
Edvaldo
28th July 2023, 17:42
Red Bull probably only keeps Perez there to claim that the cars are leveled, that Max is the one with a .9s of extra speed into him, just like Alonso used to say that the had brought .7s to Mclaren on him back in 07 lol.
MadMax (@madmax)
28th July 2023, 19:20
RBR again 1s faster than the rest. meh
Moi
28th July 2023, 19:50
Only 1 of them…
Esploratore (@esploratore1)
28th July 2023, 20:35
You obviously look at the best driver to gauge the potential of the car, you can also put one of us in the red bull and we’ll be 30 sec off, but you don’t average our time with verstappen’s, you take the best time.
ADUB SMALLBLOCK (@waptraveler)
28th July 2023, 20:53
Blue flags before the first corner? LOL
Bullfrog (@bullfrog)
28th July 2023, 22:01
Hopefully it’ll be dry enough for a decent uninterrupted race, but not quite dry enough for DRS…