Race · Round 13 of 18 · 7 September 2008

2008 Belgian Grand Prix

Felipe Massa won for Ferrari from 2nd on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 2 of the starters were not classified.

Wet · High of 15 °C, 2.1 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Circuit de Spa-FrancorchampsStavelot, Belgium
Winner: Felipe MassaFerrari
Pole: Sir Lewis Hamilton
Fastest lap: Kimi Raikkonen
Entries: 2018 classified

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	F2008	2	44	Finished	10
2	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	F1.08	5	44	Finished	8
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	MP4-23	1	44	Finished	6
4	Fernando Alonso	Renault	R28	6	44	Finished	5
5	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	—	10	44	Finished	4
6	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	F1.08	8	44	Finished	3
7	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	—	9	44	Finished	2
8	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	RB4	7	44	Finished	1
9	Timo Glock	Toyota	TF108	13	44	Finished	0
10	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	MP4-23	3	43	Gearbox	0
11	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	RB4	14	43	Finished	0
12	Nico Rosberg	Williams	FW30	15	43	Finished	0
13	Adrian Sutil	Force India	VJM01	18	43	Finished	0
14	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	FW30	19	43	Finished	0
15	Jenson Button	Honda	RA108	17	43	Finished	0
16	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	TF108	11	43	Finished	0
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	VJM01	20	43	Finished	0
18	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	F2008	4	42	Accident	0	fastest lap
DNF	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	RA108	16	19	Gearbox	0
DNF	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	R28	12	13	Accident	0

A blank chassis is a season the team ran more than one design and no source says which car raced here.

F1DB layout spa-francorchamps-4 · 7.004 km · 19 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. A dashed line ending in a cross is a driver not classified. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Felipe Massa	2	1	44
Nick Heidfeld	5	2	44
Sir Lewis Hamilton	1	3	44
Fernando Alonso	6	4	44
Sebastian Vettel	10	5	44
Robert Kubica	8	6	44
Sébastien Bourdais	9	7	44
Mark Webber	7	8	44
Timo Glock	13	9	44
Heikki Kovalainen	3	10	43
David Coulthard	14	11	43
Nico Rosberg	15	12	43
Adrian Sutil	18	13	43
Kazuki Nakajima	19	14	43
Jenson Button	17	15	43
Jarno Trulli	11	16	43
Giancarlo Fisichella	20	17	43
Kimi Raikkonen	4	18	42
Rubens Barrichello	16	DNF	19
Nelson Piquet Jr.	12	DNF	13

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:46.887	1:46.088	1:47.338	—	0 m	—
2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:46.873	1:46.391	1:47.678	+0.340	22 m	+0.340
3	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:46.812	1:46.037	1:47.815	+0.477	31 m	+0.137
4	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:46.960	1:46.298	1:47.992	+0.654	43 m	+0.177
5	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:47.419	1:46.311	1:48.315	+0.977	64 m	+0.323
6	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:47.154	1:46.491	1:48.504	+1.166	76 m	+0.189
7	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:47.270	1:46.814	1:48.736	+1.398	91 m	+0.232
8	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:47.093	1:46.494	1:48.763	+1.425	93 m	+0.027
9	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:46.777	1:46.544	1:48.951	+1.613	105 m	+0.188
10	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:47.152	1:46.804	1:50.319	+2.981	195 m	+1.368
11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:47.400	1:46.949	—	—	60 m	—
12	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:47.052	1:46.965	—	—	61 m	—
13	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:47.359	1:46.995	—	—	63 m	—
14	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:47.132	1:47.018	—	—	65 m	—
15	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:47.503	1:47.429	—	—	92 m	—
16	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:48.153	—	—	—	90 m	—
17	Jenson Button	Honda	16	1:48.211	—	—	—	94 m	—
18	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:48.226	—	—	—	95 m	—
19	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:48.268	—	—	—	98 m	—
20	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:48.447	—	—	—	110 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. An unticked bar may hide a stop: F1DB’s record has gaps. A cross is a driver not classified. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Felipe Massa	1	44	2	13, 28	28.3, 28.2
Nick Heidfeld	2	44	3	14, 31, 42	29.0, 26.7, 26.1
Sir Lewis Hamilton	3	44	2	11, 25	27.4, 28.8
Fernando Alonso	4	44	3	13, 27, 43	28.9, 28.2, 29.6
Sebastian Vettel	5	44	2	17, 33	28.2, 26.0
Robert Kubica	6	44	2	15, 33	28.6, 32.4
Sébastien Bourdais	7	44	2	15, 32	29.0, 26.9
Mark Webber	8	44	2	12, 32	30.5, 27.6
Timo Glock	9	44	2	26, 42	28.7, 25.9
Heikki Kovalainen	10	43	3	13, 14, 33	29.4, 17.5, 26.5
David Coulthard	11	43	2	22, 42	32.6, 27.8
Nico Rosberg	12	43	2	25, 42	29.2, 30.0
Adrian Sutil	13	43	2	16, 28	29.7, 27.3
Kazuki Nakajima	14	43	2	27, 42	28.7, 36.6
Jenson Button	15	43	2	22, 42	30.0, 28.3
Jarno Trulli	16	43	2	14, 35	29.2, 26.4
Giancarlo Fisichella	17	43	3	1, 22, 40	38.8, 31.3, 27.7
Kimi Raikkonen	18	42	2	12, 25	27.6, 29.1
Rubens Barrichello	DNF	19	1	17	28.8
Nelson Piquet Jr.	DNF	13	0	None recorded	—

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Felipe Massa	1 · 2	3 · 1	11 · 13	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Felipe Massa · Nick Heidfeld	2 · 5	1 · 2	13 · 14	Felipe Massa	Kept their order
Felipe Massa · Heikki Kovalainen	2 · 3	1 · 10	13 · 13	Same lap	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Nick Heidfeld	1 · 5	3 · 2	11 · 14	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Swapped places
Kimi Raikkonen · Nick Heidfeld	4 · 5	18 · 2	12 · 14	Kimi Raikkonen	Swapped places
Nick Heidfeld · Fernando Alonso	5 · 6	2 · 4	14 · 13	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Fernando Alonso	1 · 6	3 · 4	11 · 13	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Sebastian Vettel	6 · 10	4 · 5	13 · 17	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Mark Webber	6 · 7	4 · 8	13 · 12	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Robert Kubica · Sebastian Vettel	8 · 10	6 · 5	15 · 17	Robert Kubica	Swapped places
Sébastien Bourdais · Sebastian Vettel	9 · 10	7 · 5	15 · 17	Sébastien Bourdais	Swapped places
Sebastian Vettel · Jarno Trulli	10 · 11	5 · 16	17 · 14	Jarno Trulli	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Robert Kubica	7 · 8	8 · 6	12 · 15	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Robert Kubica · Sébastien Bourdais	8 · 9	6 · 7	15 · 15	Same lap	Kept their order
Mark Webber · Sébastien Bourdais	7 · 9	8 · 7	12 · 15	Mark Webber	Swapped places
Mark Webber · Timo Glock	7 · 13	8 · 9	12 · 26	Mark Webber	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Timo Glock	3 · 13	10 · 9	13 · 26	Heikki Kovalainen	Swapped places
Timo Glock · David Coulthard	13 · 14	9 · 11	26 · 22	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · Kimi Raikkonen	3 · 4	10 · 18	13 · 12	Kimi Raikkonen	Kept their order
Heikki Kovalainen · David Coulthard	3 · 14	10 · 11	13 · 22	Heikki Kovalainen	Kept their order
David Coulthard · Nico Rosberg	14 · 15	11 · 12	22 · 25	David Coulthard	Kept their order
Nico Rosberg · Adrian Sutil	15 · 18	12 · 13	25 · 16	Adrian Sutil	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Adrian Sutil	17 · 18	15 · 13	22 · 16	Adrian Sutil	Swapped places
Adrian Sutil · Kazuki Nakajima	18 · 19	13 · 14	16 · 27	Adrian Sutil	Kept their order
Jenson Button · Kazuki Nakajima	17 · 19	15 · 14	22 · 27	Jenson Button	Swapped places
Kazuki Nakajima · Giancarlo Fisichella	19 · 20	14 · 17	27 · 1	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Jarno Trulli · Jenson Button	11 · 17	16 · 15	14 · 22	Jarno Trulli	Swapped places
Jarno Trulli · Giancarlo Fisichella	11 · 20	16 · 17	14 · 1	Giancarlo Fisichella	Kept their order
Kimi Raikkonen · Giancarlo Fisichella	4 · 20	18 · 17	12 · 1	Giancarlo Fisichella	Swapped places

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:47.284	—	0 m	—	26
2	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:47.623	+0.339	22 m	+0.339	26
3	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:47.878	+0.594	39 m	+0.255	27
4	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:47.932	+0.648	42 m	+0.054	24
5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:48.104	+0.820	54 m	+0.172	26
6	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:48.428	+1.144	75 m	+0.324	29
7	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:48.557	+1.273	83 m	+0.129	31
8	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:48.958	+1.674	109 m	+0.401	24
9	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:48.997	+1.713	112 m	+0.039	26
10	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:49.068	+1.784	116 m	+0.071	25
11	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:49.139	+1.855	121 m	+0.071	25
12	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:49.185	+1.901	124 m	+0.046	26
13	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:49.611	+2.327	152 m	+0.426	30
14	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:49.625	+2.341	153 m	+0.014	14
15	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:49.849	+2.565	167 m	+0.224	18
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:49.986	+2.702	176 m	+0.137	27
17	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:50.117	+2.833	185 m	+0.131	19
18	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:50.125	+2.841	185 m	+0.008	30
19	Jenson Button	Honda	16	1:50.464	+3.180	208 m	+0.339	25
20	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:50.905	+3.621	236 m	+0.441	25

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:48.454	—	0 m	—	21
2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:48.504	+0.050	3 m	+0.050	16
3	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:48.740	+0.286	18 m	+0.236	19
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:48.805	+0.351	23 m	+0.065	17
5	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:49.328	+0.874	56 m	+0.523	10
6	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:49.405	+0.951	61 m	+0.077	17
7	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:49.427	+0.973	63 m	+0.022	29
8	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:49.585	+1.131	73 m	+0.158	22
9	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:49.715	+1.261	81 m	+0.130	23
10	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:49.725	+1.271	82 m	+0.010	22
11	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:49.875	+1.421	92 m	+0.150	22
12	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:49.922	+1.468	95 m	+0.047	20
13	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:49.948	+1.494	96 m	+0.026	20
14	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:50.281	+1.827	118 m	+0.333	24
15	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:50.364	+1.910	123 m	+0.083	20
16	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:50.740	+2.286	148 m	+0.376	11
17	Jenson Button	Honda	16	1:50.925	+2.471	160 m	+0.185	19
18	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:51.238	+2.784	180 m	+0.313	22
19	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:51.334	+2.880	186 m	+0.096	19
20	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:51.640	+3.186	206 m	+0.306	7

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	3	1:47.876	—	0 m	—	19
2	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	23	1:48.165	+0.289	19 m	+0.289	10
3	Fernando Alonso	Renault	5	1:48.307	+0.431	28 m	+0.142	19
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	22	1:48.356	+0.480	31 m	+0.049	10
5	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	2	1:48.692	+0.816	53 m	+0.336	6
6	Sebastian Vettel	Scuderia Toro Rosso	15	1:48.768	+0.892	58 m	+0.076	16
7	Kimi Raikkonen	Ferrari	1	1:48.815	+0.939	61 m	+0.047	10
8	Nico Rosberg	Williams	7	1:48.836	+0.960	62 m	+0.021	13
9	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	6	1:48.946	+1.070	69 m	+0.110	17
10	Mark Webber	Red Bull Racing	10	1:49.054	+1.178	76 m	+0.108	14
11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	11	1:49.057	+1.181	77 m	+0.003	16
12	David Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	9	1:49.125	+1.249	81 m	+0.068	11
13	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	4	1:49.250	+1.374	89 m	+0.125	12
14	Sébastien Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	14	1:49.256	+1.380	90 m	+0.006	19
15	Timo Glock	Toyota	12	1:49.535	+1.659	108 m	+0.279	18
16	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	8	1:49.830	+1.954	127 m	+0.295	12
17	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	21	1:49.949	+2.073	135 m	+0.119	16
18	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	1:50.034	+2.158	140 m	+0.085	16
19	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	1:50.061	+2.185	142 m	+0.027	17
20	Jenson Button	Honda	16	—	—	—	—	1

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

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Where this comes from

Round: 13 of 2008
Grand Prix: Belgian Grand Prix
Dates: 7 Sep 2008
Layout raced: Modern circuit · 7.004 km · 19 turns
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Ferrari
Entrant: Ferrari
Confidence: reference

The layout raced and its figures are this register’s, from its own sources; the figures under the race’s drawing are F1DB’s, and at some circuits the two disagree.