Lewis Hamilton wins 2010 F1 Belgian Grand Prix

Lewis Hamilton won an incident-packed Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, capitalizing on a poor start from Mark Webber to take the lead into the first corner and keeping it till the end of the race. Webber recovered superbly to take second, although he lost his championship lead to Hamilton, with Robert Kubica in the much-improved Renault in third.

During the 44-lap race the weather was the key factor, and the rains which started during the 35th lap caused a series of crashes and spins and a safety-car period, all of which contributed to a dramatic finale to the grand prix.

Sebastian Vettel and Jenson Button – Both had a forgettable day. Button’s race ended when Vettel made a silly mistake, over corrected and slammed into the McLaren side damaging the car’s radiator. Vettel was able to rejoin but the damage to Button’s car was heavy and forced him out of the race. The collision resulted in a drive-through penalty for Vettel. But the German’s bad day didn’t end there, he then suffered a puncture when he clipped Tonio Liuzzi’s Force India as well as a pit-lane touching of wheels with Fernando Alonso.

Massa had a comparatively better race than his team mate and finished in fourth place, running just off the pace of the front runners. Alonso’s Ferrari was hit at the chicane on the first lap by Rubens Barrichello, sending the Spaniard into the pits for repairs and the Brazilian into an exit from his 300th Grand Prix. Later, Alonso spun exiting Les Combes and had to abandon his damaged car right in the middle of the track. The incident triggered second safety car period for the officials to safely retrieve the Ferrari from the track.

Adrian Sutil showed the improvements made by Force India to secure fifth place. Schumacher ran a great race and got as high as fifth from 21st, despite clipping team-mate Nico Rosberg at one point, but Rosberg had the last laugh when he out muscled the renowned rain specialist three laps from the end putting both the Mercedes in point scoring position.

2010 F1 Belgian GP Results

Pos  Driver        Team                       Time
 1.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes           1h29m04.268s
 2.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault                 +1.571
 3.  Kubica        Renault                          +3.493
 4.  Massa         Ferrari                          +8.264
 5.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes             +9.094
 6.  Rosberg       Mercedes                        +12.359
 7.  Schumacher    Mercedes                        +15.548
 8.  Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari                  +16.678
 9.  Petrov        Renault                         +23.851
10.  Alguersuari   Toro Rosso-Ferrari              +29.457
11.  Liuzzi        Force India-Mercedes            +34.831
12.  De la Rosa    Sauber-Ferrari                  +36.019
13.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari              +39.895
14.  Hulkenberg    Williams-Cosworth                +1 lap
15.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault                 +1 lap
16.  Kovalainen    Lotus-Cosworth                   +1 lap
17.  Di Grassi     Virgin-Cosworth                  +1 lap
18.  Glock         Virgin-Cosworth                  +1 lap
19.  Trulli        Lotus-Cosworth                   +1 lap
20.  Yamamoto      HRT-Cosworth                    +2 laps

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                  On lap
Alonso        Ferrari                   38
Button        McLaren-Mercedes          16
Senna         HRT-Cosworth               6
Barrichello   Williams-Cosworth          1

Image Courtesy: ESPN

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August 29, 2010 | By AkMa · Tags: Lewis Hamilton F1 Girlfriend, Lewis Hamilton Formula One Records 2010

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One Response to “Lewis Hamilton wins 2010 F1 Belgian Grand Prix”

vettel fan on September 2nd, 2010 7:40 am

I really think Sebastian Vettel is not ready to become a world champion just yet. If he was a bit more experienced and probably calmer on race days, he would have converted more pole positions to wins. Oh, well, may be next year!

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