Race 2017 F1 Belgian Grand Prix Full Race Replay

Race 2017 F1 Belgian Grand Prix Full Race Replay

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Race Info
Date 27 August 2017
Official name    2017 Formula 1 Pirelli Belgian Grand Prix[2][3]
Location    Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Stavelot, Belgium
Course    Permanent racing facility
Course length    7.004 km (4.352 miles)
Distance    44 laps, 308.052 km (191.415 miles)

Belgian Grand Prix What to Watch

For the first time since Jerome D'Ambrosio brought his Virgin home in 17th place six years ago, a Belgian driver should compete in his home grand prix this weekend.

Stoffel Vandoorne will be the 19th Belgian driver to start his home grand prix, if he doesn't have another pre-race malfunction (like he and his teammate did in Bahrain and Russia).

There has never been a Belgian driver to win the world championship at home. Paul Frere (second in 1956), Olivier Gendebien (third in 1960), and Jacky Ickx (third in 1968) are the only three Belgians who have placed on the podium at home.

The latter is the most successful Formula One driver from Belgium. Over his career, Ickx finished on the podium 25 times and took home eight victories. His initial appearance on the rostrum came

One of Formula One's most enduring races is the Belgian Grand Prix. The 62nd installment will take place this year; it has only missed six dates on the world championship schedule (1957, 1959, 1969, 1971, 2003, and 2006).
Although the race was mostly conducted in Zolder in the 1970s after the original 14-kilometer Spa course was judged too hazardous for Formula One vehicles, the majority of those events were contested on the intimidating Spa-Francorchamps course.

Pedro Rodriguez, who averaged 241.3 kph, won the last race on the historic Spa-Francorchamps. Amazingly, the average speed of that race 47 years ago was higher than the average speed of any of the 11 races this year, with Valtteri Bottas's victory in the Austrian Grand Prix being the fastest at 224.7 kph.

Even though the present circuit is significantly shorter than the previous one, Spa is still the longest track on the current Formula One calendar at 7.004 kilometers, which is more than two laps of Monaco.

Between 2004 and 2009, Kimi Raikkonen won this race four times in a row, solidifying her status as a Spa-master. Remarkably, the vehicles he drove—the Ferrari F60 and the McLaren MP4-19B—only won the first and last of those races.
If Raikkonen hadn't spun out after leading 37 laps in 2008, he may have gone five out of five. Following Lewis Hamilton's contentious penalty, Felipe Massa was able to secure his lone victory at the track to date. Hamilton exacted revenge for his defeat.

Only two other drivers in the field have won this race: Daniel Ricciardo and Sebastian Vettel. Interestingly, the Belgian Grand Prix has never been won by Fernando Alonso. He did, however, win his final pre-F1 race in Spa in 2000 in the Formula 3000 support race.