F1 defending champion Max Verstappen wins Belgian Grand Prix
It was a great day of racing for defending Formula One World Champion, Max Verstappen, who saw himself at the top of the podium on Sunday for the 8th consecutive time this season.
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Verstappen wins Belgian Grand Prix for 8th consecutive win, beating teammate Perez
Defending Formula One champion Max Verstappen enters the mid-season break in unstoppable form, after emphatically winning the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday for an eighth straight win and 10th overall of a crushingly dominant season.
Max Verstappen Makes Light Of Spa Penalty To Secure Eighth Straight Win
Max Verstappen reeled off his eighth successive win of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday with his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez in second. Verstappen also won Saturday's sprint race at Spa-Francorchamps to maintain his relentless charge to a third Formula One world title. "I knew we had a great car, it was just about surviving turn one," said Verstappen, who started in sixth on the grid despite topping qualifying after a penalty for a new gearbox. "It is a new spot P6 (to win from). We made all the right moves," added Verstappen. Perez, who led for much of the early part of the race, said: "It was a good race for the team. We had a great start, to get through Charles (Leclerc), and I was doing my own race -- but Max came through pretty fast on the second stint. There was nothing I could do."
Max Verstappen wins Belgian GP to extend winning streak to eight
Max Verstappen's invincible streak continued at the Belgian Grand Prix with another crushing win.
Gasly did not feel safe in wet Spa sprint race
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium : Pierre Gasly finished third in the Saturday Sprint at the Belgian Grand Prix but the Alpine driver said he had been unable to see much in the spray and had not felt safe.
Max Verstappen Edges Oscar Piastri For Belgian Sprint Race Pole
Max Verstappen took pole position for Red Bull in the sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday by a wafer thin margin from McLaren's Oscar Piastri. The defending double world champion and runaway leader of this year's title race wound up just 0.011seconds clear of the rookie Australian after the final runs on another rain-affected day's action in the Ardennes forests. Carlos Sainz was third for Ferrari ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc, Lando Norris in the second McLaren and Alpine's Pierre Gasly with seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton showing early pace taking seventh place on the grid for Mercedes.
Max Verstappen Delivers Red Bull Winning-Streak Record In Hungary
Max Verstappen cruised to another majestic victory on Sunday, reeling off a record 12th straight win for Red Bull as he dominated the Hungarian Grand Prix with a textbook drive from lights to flag. The defending double world champion grabbed the lead from pole-sitter Lewis Hamilton at the start and remained in control for his seventh successive victory, his ninth in 11 races this year and the 44th of his career. More significantly, it was Red Bull's 12th consecutive win, breaking a 35-year-old record they had shared with McLaren, who won 11 straight races in 1988 with Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna as their driver pair.
Szafnauer to leave Alpine, Fry moves to Williams
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium : Team boss Otmar Szafnauer will leave Renault-owned Alpine after Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix with Bruno Famin taking over as interim principal, the Formula One team said on Friday.