Race · Round 12 of 22 ·
2023 Belgian Grand Prix
Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from 6th on the grid at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. 2 of the starters were not classified.
Wet · High of 18 °C, 3.1 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
- Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
- Pole
- Charles Leclerc
- Fastest qualifier
- Max Verstappenstarted 6, the grid set by the sprint
- Fastest lap
- Sir Lewis Hamilton
- Entries
- 2018 classified
Classification
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Chassis | Grid | Laps | Out | Points | FL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | 6 | 44 | Finished | 25 | |
| 2 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | RB19 | 2 | 44 | Finished | 18 | |
| 3 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | SF-23 | 1 | 44 | Finished | 15 | |
| 4 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 3 | 44 | Finished | 13 | fastest lap |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 9 | 44 | Finished | 10 | |
| 6 | George Russell | Mercedes | F1 W14 | 8 | 44 | Finished | 8 | |
| 7 | Lando Norris | McLaren | MCL60 | 7 | 44 | Finished | 6 | |
| 8 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | A523 | 14 | 44 | Finished | 4 | |
| 9 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | AMR23 | 10 | 44 | Finished | 2 | |
| 10 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 11 | 44 | Finished | 1 | |
| 11 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | A523 | 12 | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| 12 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | C43 | 13 | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| 13 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | C43 | 17 | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| 14 | Alexander Albon | Williams | FW45 | 15 | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| 15 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | 16 | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| 16 | Daniel Ricciardo | Scuderia AlphaTauri | AT04 | 19 | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| 17 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | FW45 | 18 | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| 18 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | VF-23 | PL | 44 | Finished | 0 | |
| DNF | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | SF-23 | 4 | 23 | Collision damage | 0 | |
| DNF | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | MCL60 | 5 | 0 | Collision damage | 0 |
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.
Qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:58.515 | 1:52.784 | 1:46.168 | — | 0 m | — |
| 2 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:58.300 | 1:52.017 | 1:46.988 | +0.820 | 54 m | +0.820 |
| 3 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:58.899 | 1:52.353 | 1:47.045 | +0.877 | 58 m | +0.057 |
| 4 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:58.563 | 1:52.345 | 1:47.087 | +0.919 | 61 m | +0.042 |
| 5 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:58.688 | 1:51.711 | 1:47.152 | +0.984 | 65 m | +0.065 |
| 6 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 1:58.872 | 1:51.534 | 1:47.365 | +1.197 | 79 m | +0.213 |
| 7 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 1:59.981 | 1:52.252 | 1:47.669 | +1.501 | 99 m | +0.304 |
| 8 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 1:59.035 | 1:52.605 | 1:47.805 | +1.637 | 108 m | +0.136 |
| 9 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:58.834 | 1:52.751 | 1:47.843 | +1.675 | 111 m | +0.038 |
| 10 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 1:59.663 | 1:52.193 | 1:48.841 | +2.673 | 176 m | +0.998 |
| 11 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 1:59.044 | 1:53.148 | — | — | 101 m | — |
| 12 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 1:59.511 | 1:53.671 | — | — | 134 m | — |
| 13 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 2:00.020 | 1:54.160 | — | — | 165 m | — |
| 14 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 1:59.484 | 1:54.694 | — | — | 198 m | — |
| 15 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:59.634 | 1:56.372 | — | — | 304 m | — |
| 16 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 2:00.314 | — | — | — | 119 m | — |
| 17 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 2:00.832 | — | — | — | 150 m | — |
| 18 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 2:01.535 | — | — | — | 192 m | — |
| 19 | Daniel Ricciardo | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 3 | 2:02.159 | — | — | — | 228 m | — |
| 20 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 2:03.166 | — | — | — | 288 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, Qualifying
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.
Sprint
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | Grid | Laps | Out | Gap | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 11 | Finished | — | 8 |
| 2 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 2 | 11 | Finished | +6.677 | 7 |
| 3 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 6 | 11 | Finished | +10.733 | 6 |
| 4 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 3 | 11 | Finished | +12.648 | 5 |
| 5 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 4 | 11 | Finished | +15.016 | 4 |
| 6 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 5 | 11 | Finished | +16.052 | 3 |
| 7 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 7 | 11 | Finished | +16.757 | 2 |
| 8 | George Russell | Mercedes | 10 | 11 | Finished | +16.822 | 1 |
| 9 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 9 | 11 | Finished | +22.410 | 0 |
| 10 | Daniel Ricciardo | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 11 | 11 | Finished | +22.806 | 0 |
| 11 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 14 | 11 | Finished | +25.007 | 0 |
| 12 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 12 | 11 | Finished | +26.303 | 0 |
| 13 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 17 | 11 | Finished | +27.006 | 0 |
| 14 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 18 | 11 | Finished | +32.986 | 0 |
| 15 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 19 | 11 | Finished | +36.342 | 0 |
| 16 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 13 | 11 | Finished | +37.571 | 0 |
| 17 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 11 | Finished | +37.827 | 0 |
| 18 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 16 | 11 | Finished | +39.267 | 0 |
| DNF | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 8 | 8 | Collision damage | — | 0 |
| DNF | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 15 | 2 | Accident | — | 0 |
A sprint is a separate, shorter race held on the grand prix weekend, with its own grid and its own points — and those points count towards the championship. The grid column is the sprint grid, not the grand prix one.
Sprint qualifying
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | SQ1 | SQ2 | SQ3 | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | 1:58.135 | 1:55.200 | 1:49.056 | — | 0 m | — |
| 2 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 2:00.056 | 1:56.392 | 1:49.067 | +0.011 | 1 m | +0.011 |
| 3 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 1:59.414 | 1:56.557 | 1:49.081 | +0.025 | 2 m | +0.014 |
| 4 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 1:59.575 | 1:56.265 | 1:49.251 | +0.195 | 13 m | +0.170 |
| 5 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 2:00.436 | 1:56.828 | 1:49.389 | +0.333 | 21 m | +0.138 |
| 6 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | 2:00.032 | 1:56.137 | 1:49.700 | +0.644 | 41 m | +0.311 |
| 7 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 1:58.939 | 1:55.823 | 1:49.900 | +0.844 | 54 m | +0.200 |
| 8 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 1:59.362 | 1:55.878 | 1:49.961 | +0.905 | 58 m | +0.061 |
| 9 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | 1:59.884 | 1:57.051 | 1:50.494 | +1.438 | 92 m | +0.533 |
| 10 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 2:00.475 | 1:57.393 | 1:55.742 | +6.686 | 429 m | +5.248 |
| 11 | Daniel Ricciardo | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 3 | 2:00.177 | 1:57.687 | — | — | 151 m | — |
| 12 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 1:59.198 | — | — | — | 63 m | — |
| 13 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | 2:00.031 | — | — | — | 112 m | — |
| 14 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | 2:00.460 | — | — | — | 138 m | — |
| 15 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 1:59.038 | — | — | — | 54 m | — |
| 16 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 2:00.568 | — | — | — | 144 m | — |
| 17 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 2:00.951 | — | — | — | 167 m | — |
| 18 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 2:01.079 | — | — | — | 175 m | — |
| 19 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 2:01.430 | — | — | — | 195 m | — |
| NC | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
The session that sets the sprint grid: the sprint shootout in 2023, sprint qualifying since, with the best lap of each of its three parts.
How it is derived: distance, Sprint qualifying
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.
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
| Drivers, in grid order | Grid | Result | First recorded stop, lap | Stopped first | Grid to flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergio Perez · Max Verstappen | 2 · 6 | 2 · 1 | 13 · 14 | Sergio Perez | Swapped places |
| Max Verstappen · Lando Norris | 6 · 7 | 1 · 7 | 14 · 5 | Lando Norris | Kept their order |
| Charles Leclerc · Sergio Perez | 1 · 2 | 3 · 2 | 13 · 13 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Sergio Perez · Sir Lewis Hamilton | 2 · 3 | 2 · 4 | 13 · 12 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Kept their order |
| Charles Leclerc · Sir Lewis Hamilton | 1 · 3 | 3 · 4 | 13 · 12 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Kept their order |
| Sir Lewis Hamilton · Fernando Alonso | 3 · 9 | 4 · 5 | 12 · 10 | Fernando Alonso | Kept their order |
| George Russell · Fernando Alonso | 8 · 9 | 6 · 5 | 22 · 10 | Fernando Alonso | Swapped places |
| Fernando Alonso · Lance Stroll | 9 · 10 | 5 · 9 | 10 · 20 | Fernando Alonso | Kept their order |
| Lando Norris · George Russell | 7 · 8 | 7 · 6 | 5 · 22 | Lando Norris | Swapped places |
| Lando Norris · Esteban Ocon | 7 · 14 | 7 · 8 | 5 · 6 | Lando Norris | Kept their order |
| Lance Stroll · Esteban Ocon | 10 · 14 | 9 · 8 | 20 · 6 | Esteban Ocon | Swapped places |
| Valtteri Bottas · Esteban Ocon | 13 · 14 | 12 · 8 | 6 · 6 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Esteban Ocon · Alexander Albon | 14 · 15 | 8 · 14 | 6 · 7 | Esteban Ocon | Kept their order |
| Lance Stroll · Yuki Tsunoda | 10 · 11 | 9 · 10 | 20 · 9 | Yuki Tsunoda | Kept their order |
| Yuki Tsunoda · Pierre Gasly | 11 · 12 | 10 · 11 | 9 · 23 | Yuki Tsunoda | Kept their order |
| Pierre Gasly · Valtteri Bottas | 12 · 13 | 11 · 12 | 23 · 6 | Valtteri Bottas | Kept their order |
| Valtteri Bottas · Zhou Guanyu | 13 · 17 | 12 · 13 | 6 · 7 | Valtteri Bottas | Kept their order |
| Alexander Albon · Zhou Guanyu | 15 · 17 | 14 · 13 | 7 · 7 | Same lap | Swapped places |
| Kevin Magnussen · Zhou Guanyu | 16 · 17 | 15 · 13 | 5 · 7 | Kevin Magnussen | Swapped places |
| Zhou Guanyu · Logan Sargeant | 17 · 18 | 13 · 17 | 7 · 8 | Zhou Guanyu | Kept their order |
| Alexander Albon · Kevin Magnussen | 15 · 16 | 14 · 15 | 7 · 5 | Kevin Magnussen | Kept their order |
| Kevin Magnussen · Daniel Ricciardo | 16 · 19 | 15 · 16 | 5 · 5 | Same lap | Kept their order |
| Logan Sargeant · Daniel Ricciardo | 18 · 19 | 17 · 16 | 8 · 5 | Daniel Ricciardo | 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 1
| Pos | Driver | Constructor | No. | Best lap | Gap | ≈ Distance | Interval | Laps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 55 | 2:03.207 | — | 0 m | — | 9 |
| 2 | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 81 | 2:03.792 | +0.585 | 33 m | +0.585 | 4 |
| 3 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 4 | 2:04.484 | +1.277 | 73 m | +0.692 | 4 |
| 4 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 16 | 2:08.148 | +4.941 | 281 m | +3.664 | 8 |
| 5 | Sergio Perez | Red Bull Racing | 11 | 2:08.240 | +5.033 | 286 m | +0.092 | 5 |
| 6 | Alexander Albon | Williams | 23 | 2:08.394 | +5.187 | 295 m | +0.154 | 5 |
| 7 | Yuki Tsunoda | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 22 | 2:09.067 | +5.860 | 333 m | +0.673 | 8 |
| 8 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 20 | 2:09.229 | +6.022 | 342 m | +0.162 | 7 |
| 9 | Daniel Ricciardo | Scuderia AlphaTauri | 3 | 2:09.319 | +6.112 | 347 m | +0.090 | 7 |
| 10 | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas F1 Team | 27 | 2:10.042 | +6.835 | 389 m | +0.723 | 8 |
| 11 | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 14 | 2:10.283 | +7.076 | 402 m | +0.241 | 4 |
| 12 | Sir Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 44 | 2:10.299 | +7.092 | 403 m | +0.016 | 7 |
| 13 | George Russell | Mercedes | 63 | 2:10.475 | +7.268 | 413 m | +0.176 | 7 |
| 14 | Valtteri Bottas | Sauber | 77 | 2:12.085 | +8.878 | 505 m | +1.610 | 9 |
| 15 | Zhou Guanyu | Sauber | 24 | 2:14.002 | +10.795 | 614 m | +1.917 | 8 |
| 16 | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 |
| 17 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 18 | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| 18 | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 10 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| 19 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 31 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| 20 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull Racing | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 |
Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.
How it is derived: distance, Practice 1
Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.
The cars in this race
The photograph each car's Wikipedia article leads with, from Wikimedia Commons: taken wherever and whenever that was, not necessarily at this race.
Red Bull Racing RB19
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 1 (1) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Ferrari SF-23
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 55 (1) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
McLaren MCL60
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 4 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Alpine A523
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 10 (2) (cropped) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
AlphaTauri AT04
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 21 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · unchecked
Alfa Romeo C43
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 24 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedA photograph marked unchecked has a file name that does not name the car it is shown for. Most are still the right car, filed under the driver rather than the machine — but nobody has confirmed these one by one.
1 more photograph
Williams FW45
FIA F1 Austria 2023 Nr. 23 (2) · Lukas Raich · CC BY-SA 4.0 · uncheckedWhere this comes from
- Round
- 12 of 2023
- Grand Prix
- Belgian Grand Prix
- Dates
- Layout raced
- Modern circuit · 7.004 km · 19 turns
- Format
- Sprint weekend
- Constructor
- Red Bull Racing
- Entrant
- Red Bull-Honda RBPT
- 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.