Belgian Grand Prix 2014

 Belgian Grand Prix 2014

Racing data
12th of 19 races in the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship
Surname:	2014 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix
Date:	August 24, 2014
Place:	spa
Course:	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Length:	308.052 km in 44 laps of 7.004 km
Pole position
Driver:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time:	2: 05.591 min
Fastest lap
Driver:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time:	1: 50.511 min (lap 36)
Podium
First:	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault
Second:	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Third:	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes

The Belgian Grand Prix in 2014 (officially 2014 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix ) took place on 24 August at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa place and was the twelfth race of the Formula 1 World Championship in 2014 .

Reports

background

After the Hungarian Grand Prix , Nico Rosberg led the drivers' standings with eleven points ahead of Lewis Hamilton and 71 points ahead of Daniel Ricciardo . Mercedes led the constructors' championship with 174 points ahead of Red Bull-Renault and with 251 points ahead of Ferrari .

At the Belgian Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Medium (white) and P Zero Soft (yellow) as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

There were two DRS zones, the first zone was on the Kemmel Straight and began 310 meters after the Raidillon . The measuring point was 240 meters before the entrance to the Eau Rouge curve . The measuring point for the second zone was 160 meters before the bus stop chicane , on the start-finish straight, 30 meters after the last bend, the DRS zone began.

Compared to the 2013 Belgian Grand Prix , the route has been changed slightly: a new security fence was built in La Source and a new protective wall on the left edge of the route in Pouhon . A new drainage system was also installed in Eau Rouge , 'Raidillon', Rivage , Pouhon and Blanchimont .

The FRIC system was finally banned for this Grand Prix. No racing team had used FRIC since the German Grand Prix .

There was a driver change at Caterham . Kamui Kobayashi lost his cockpit to André Lotterer . Lotterer was active as a pilot for Audi Sport Team Joest in the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and for TOM’S in Super Formula in 2014 . He received approval for a one-time Formula 1 participation and canceled a start in the Super Formula for the Formula 1 Grand Prix. Lotterer first took part in a Formula 1 weekend after being a test driver at Jaguar in 2002 . He was a three-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and, after Yannick Dalmas in 1994, became the first driver to take part in a Formula 1 race as the reigning Le Mans winner. Caterham signed Lotterer because of its vast experience in changing weather conditions. Lotterer is a former winner of the WEC race in Spa-Francorchamps. Kobayashi remained employed by Caterham.

At Marussia , Max Chilton was to be replaced by test and substitute driver Alexander Rossi . It would have been Rossi's first participation in a Formula 1 race after he had already participated in some Friday training sessions. While Marussia cited contractual reasons for the move, Chilton's management stated that Chilton was volunteering so the team could sell the cockpit to generate sponsorship money. During the first free practice that Rossi contested, the team announced that Chilton would return to the cockpit for the second free practice after the contractual difficulties had been resolved.

Jules Bianchi , Pastor Maldonado (four each), Valtteri Bottas , Marcus Ericsson , Kevin Magnussen , Adrian Sutil (two each) and Jean-Éric Vergne (one) went into the race weekend with penalty points.

With Kimi Räikkönen (four times), Sebastian Vettel (twice), Felipe Massa , Hamilton and Jenson Button (once each), five former winners competed in this Grand Prix.

Yves Bacquelaine (BEL), Gerd Ennser (DEU), Emanuele Pirro (ITA) and Vincenzo Spano (VEN) acted as race commissioners .

training

In the first free practice, Rosberg set the fastest time ahead of Hamilton and Fernando Alonso . In this training, Giedo van der Garde took over the Sauber from Esteban Gutiérrez and Rossi took over the Marussia from Chilton. In the second free practice, Hamilton took the lead from Rosberg. Alonso stayed third. Maldonado had an accident at the exit of the Pouhon . Vettel had an engine failure and did not take part in the training.

The third free practice took place on a drying track. Bottas was the fastest ahead of Ricciardo and Rosberg.

Qualifying

Qualifying took place in rainy weather. It consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 16 drivers reached the next part. Rosberg was the fastest. Gutiérrez parked his vehicle with a technical problem. In addition to him, the Caterham pilots as well as Chilton, Nico Hülkenberg and Maldonado were eliminated.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. Hamilton drove the fastest lap. The Toro Rosso pilots as well as Bianchi, Romain Grosjean , Sutil and Sergio Pérez were eliminated.

The last section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, in which the first ten starting positions were assigned. Rosberg took the lead and achieved pole position ahead of Hamilton and Vettel.

In each section, the fastest times were set on intermediates and it was possible to improve the lap time up to the end.

run

There was a technical problem with Alonso's Ferrari on the grid. His battery was not sufficiently charged, so the team, in order not to take any risks, charged the battery until shortly before the start. Since there were still mechanics on the vehicle after the second to last red traffic light had gone out, Alonso received a time penalty of five seconds. Alonso started from its original starting place. After the race he stated that he had less power available during the race and was therefore at a disadvantage in duels.

The start phase of the Grand Prix was eventful. Hamilton took the lead from Rosberg and Vettel also passed Pole-Setter Rosberg. On the Kemmel Straight, Vettel sat down in front of Hamilton, but did not manage to stay in front of him in Les Combes . Vettel drove through the run-off zone and fell behind Rosberg. Bianchi suffered a puncture in the back of the field.

In the second lap, Hamilton was attacked on the outside by Rosberg in front of Les Combes . Hamilton kept the lead, but both vehicles touched. Rosberg's front wing slit open Hamilton's left rear tire. Hamilton pitted at a slow pace to change tires and fell back to last place. Rosberg took the lead with a defective front wing. After the race, Rosberg was publicly reprimanded for this action by the team management. There were also two technical failures on the second lap: Maldonado and Lotterer parked their vehicle on the edge of the track.

On the fourth lap, Ricciardo passed Alonso in third place. Two laps later he took advantage of a driving mistake by Vettel and also overtook him. Ricciardo caught up with Rosberg who, however, pitted on lap eight and had the front wing changed. As a result, Rosberg fell behind Raikkonen, who was previously sixth and also in the pits. On this lap, Bottas passed Alonso to third place behind the Red Bull drivers. After the stop, Rosberg picked up a part of Hamilton's tire which got caught in his antenna and fluttered several laps in front of his helmet before it finally fell off.

While Ricciardo was in the pits, Bottas took the lead for one lap. Bottas then pitted and Ricciardo again led the race. Räikkönen, who had benefited from an early first stop, was in second place. Vettel, Rosberg and Bottas followed. Alonso fell behind Magnussen with his stop, where he served the five-second time penalty, and failed to drive past him for the rest of the race. While Ricciardo pulled away at the front and Raikkonen also got a lead over the pursuers, Rosberg did not manage to overtake Vettel. His wheels stopped when he tried to overtake in front of the bus stop . This driving mistake enabled Bottas to overtake him. Bottas was also unable to drive past Vettel, as Vettel's Red Bull was very fast on the straight.

On the 20th lap, Rosberg was the first driver in the leading group to pit for the second time. The early stop enabled him to overtake Raikkonen and Vettel. Rosberg was briefly involved in a duel with Button after the stop, but finally - like Raikkonen - passed Button. Ricciardo and Bottas were now in the first two positions and were again a little longer on the track. Ricciardo pitted for his last stop on lap 27, followed by Bottas one lap later. Ricciardo kept the lead during this pit stop phase. Bottas fell behind Raikkonen. Rosberg was now a few seconds behind Ricciardo. His teammate Hamilton, who drove at the bottom of the field, asked his team several times to give up. However, he first switched to fresh tires in order to be prepared for a safety car phase. Grosjean gave up during this racing phase.

Ten laps before the end of the race, Rosberg pitted again to take a final sprint with fresh tires. He quickly passed Bottas and Raikkonen to his original second position and drove the fastest race laps during this time. He reduced the gap to Ricciardo by more than two seconds per lap, but only came within four seconds of Ricciardo by the end of the race.

Behind the front there were a few more duels in the final phase. In the 40th lap, Bottas passed Raikkonen into third place. Magnussen was a long way behind, ahead of Alonso, Button and Vettel. In the 42nd lap, Vettel initially passed Button. A lap later, Magnussen pushed Alonso away in an attack in front of Les Combes . This gave Vettel the opportunity to overtake Alonso. On the last lap, Vettel also overtook Magnussen and Button passed Alonso, who had damaged his front wing in a slight collision with Vettel at La Source . After the race, Magnussen was punished for the tough duel with Alonso and received a 20-second time penalty, because of which he dropped to twelfth place. The race management also imposed two penalty points on Magnussen. Shortly before the end of the race, Hamilton and Bianchi gave up in the pits. Bianchi was still rated.

Ricciardo thus won another race ahead of Rosberg and Bottas. Raikkonen achieved his best result so far this season with fourth place and he managed to finish ahead of Alonso for the first time. The top 10 were completed by Vettel, Button, Alonso, Pérez, Daniil Kwjat and Hülkenberg. At the award ceremony and the subsequent interview with the top three winners, Rosberg was booed by the fans.

In both world championships, the first three positions remained unchanged. Rosberg extended his lead over Hamilton to 29 points, so that he would keep the lead in the world championship even after the following race.

Registration list

team	No.	driver	chassis	engine	tires
Infiniti Red Bull Racing	01	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull RB10	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	03	Daniel Ricciardo
Marussia F1 Team	04th	Max Chilton	Marussia MR03	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	17th	Jules Bianchi
	42	Alexander Rossi
Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team	06th	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes F1 W05	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	44	Lewis Hamilton
Scuderia Ferrari	07th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari F14 T	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	14th	Fernando Alonso
Lotus F1 Team	08th	Romain Grosjean	Lotus E22	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	13	Pastor Maldonado
Caterham F1 team	09	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham CT05	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	45	André Lotterer
Sahara Force India F1 Team	11	Sergio Perez	Force India VJM07	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	27	Nico Hulkenberg
Williams Martini Racing	19th	Felipe Massa	Williams FW36	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	77	Valtteri Bottas
McLaren Mercedes	20th	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren MP4-29	Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T	P
	22nd	Jenson Button
Sauber F1 Team	21st	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean C33	Ferrari 1.6 V6T	P
	36	Giedo van der Garde
	99	Adrian Sutil
Scuderia Toro Rosso	25th	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso STR9	Renault 1.6 V6T	P
	26th	Daniil Kvyat

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Marussia with the start number 42 was used in the first free practice for Rossi. Chilton then took over the car for the rest of the race weekend with its starting number 4.
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Sauber with start number 36 was used in the first free practice for van der Garde. Gutiérrez then took over the vehicle for the rest of the race weekend with his number 21.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item	driver	constructor	Q1	Q2	Q3	begin
01	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	2: 07.130	2: 06.723	2: 05.591	01
02	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	2: 07.280	2: 06,609	2: 05.819	02
03	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	2: 10.105	2: 08.868	2: 07.717	03
04th	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	2: 10.197	2: 08.450	2: 07.786	04th
05	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	2: 10.089	2: 08.989	2: 07.911	05
06th	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	2: 09.250	2: 08.451	2: 08.049	06th
07th	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	2: 11.081	2: 08.901	2: 08.679	07th
08th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	2: 09.885	2: 08.646	2: 08.780	08th
09	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	2: 08.403	2: 08.833	2: 09.178	09
10	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	2: 10.529	2: 09.272	2: 09.776	10
11	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	2: 10.445	2: 09.377	-	11
12	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	2: 09.811	2: 09.805	-	12
13	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	2: 10.666	2: 10.084	-	13
14th	Adrian Sutil	Clean Ferrari	2: 11.051	2: 10.238	-	14th
15th	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	2: 10.898	2: 11.087	-	15th
16	Jules Bianchi	Marussia Ferrari	2: 11.051	2: 12.470	-	16
17th	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus Renault	2: 11.261	-	-	17th
18th	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	2: 11.267	-	-	18th
19th	Max Chilton	Marussia Ferrari	2: 12.566	-	-	19th
20th	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean Ferrari	2: 13.414	-	-	20th
21st	André Lotterer	Caterham-Renault	2: 13.469	-	-	21st
22nd	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	2: 14.438	-	-	22nd
107 percent time : 2: 16.029 min (based on Q1 best time of 2: 07.130 min)

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	time	begin	Fastest lap
01	Daniel Ricciardo	Red Bull-Renault	44	1: 24: 36.556	05	1: 52.974 (44th)
02	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	44	+ 3.383	01	1: 50,511 (36th)
03	Valtteri Bottas	Williams-Mercedes	44	+ 28.032	06th	1: 52.716 (40th)
04th	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	44	+ 36.815	08th	1: 54.090 (39.)
05	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	44	+ 52.196	03	1: 52,953 (36.)
06th	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	44	+ 54.580	10	1: 53.483 (38th)
07th	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	44	+1: 01.162	04th	1: 53.879 (29.)
08th	Sergio Perez	Force India-Mercedes	44	+1: 04.293	13	1: 54.532 (28th)
09	Daniil Kvyat	Toro Rosso-Renault	44	+1: 05.347	11	1: 54.159 (26.)
10	Nico Hulkenberg	Force India-Mercedes	44	+1: 05.697	18th	1: 53.612 (40th)
11	Jean-Éric Vergne	Toro Rosso-Renault	44	+1: 11.920	12	1: 53.276 (31st)
12	Kevin Magnussen	McLaren-Mercedes	44	+1: 14.262	07th	1: 54.203 (28.)
13	Felipe Massa	Williams-Mercedes	44	+1: 15.975	09	1: 52.512 (37.)
14th	Adrian Sutil	Clean Ferrari	44	+1: 22.447	14th	1: 52.413 (36th)
15th	Esteban Gutiérrez	Clean Ferrari	44	+1: 30.825	20th	1: 54,000 (32nd)
16	Max Chilton	Marussia Ferrari	43	+ 1 lap	19th	1: 55.247 (31st)
17th	Marcus Ericsson	Caterham-Renault	43	+ 1 lap	22nd	1: 55,900 (26.)
18th	Jules Bianchi	Marussia Ferrari	39	DNF	16	1: 56.347 (32nd)
-	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes	38	DNF	02	1: 53.707 (33rd)
-	Romain Grosjean	Lotus Renault	33	DNF	15th	1: 55.649 (21st)
-	Pastor Maldonado	Lotus Renault	01	DNF	17th	-
-	André Lotterer	Caterham-Renault	01	DNF	21st	-

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points 01  Nico Rosberg Mercedes 220 02  Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 191 03  Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 156 04th  Fernando Alonso Ferrari 121 05  Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 110 06th  Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 98 07th  Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 70 08th  Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 68 09  Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 40 10  Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 39 11  Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 37 12  Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 33

Item driver constructor Points 13  Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 11 14th  Romain Grosjean Lotus Renault 8th 15th  Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 8th 16  Jules Bianchi Marussia Ferrari 2 17th  Adrian Sutil Clean Ferrari 0 18th  Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 0 19th  Pastor Maldonado Lotus Renault 0 20th  Esteban Gutiérrez Clean Ferrari 0 21st  Max Chilton Marussia Ferrari 0 22nd  Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 0 -  André Lotterer Caterham-Renault 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points 01  Mercedes 411 02  Red Bull-Renault 254 03  Ferrari 160 04th  Williams-Mercedes 150 05  McLaren-Mercedes 105 06th  Force India-Mercedes 103

Item constructor Points 07th  Toro Rosso-Renault 19th 08th  Lotus Renault 8th 09  Marussia Ferrari 2 10  Clean Ferrari 0 11  Caterham-Renault 0

Individual evidence

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