Hamilton stripped of Belgian win

Lewis Hamilton has been stripped of his win and demoted to third in the aftermath of this years Belgian Grand Prix.  The McLaren driver has been given a 25 second penalty, handing Ferrari’s Felipe Massa the race win and promoting Nick Heidfeld to second.
Hamilton was penalised for cutting the chicane and gaining an advantage on [...]

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Hamilton takes win in last laps at Spa

Lewis Hamilton has won the Belgian Grand Prix beating Kimi Raikkonen in incredible closing laps. Rain proved to be the deciding factor at both the start and end of the race as Raikkonen battled with Hamilton and Massa watched from behind.
The race started in the wet with half the drivers ending up on the run-off [...]

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Hamilton takes pole at Spa

Lewis Hamilton took pole position for Sundays Belgian Grand Prix away from Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, who will start next to him on the front row. His pole position time of 1:47.338 beat Massa’s equally impressive lap of 1:47.638 on the last laps in Q3. Heikki Kovalainen couldn’t make it a McLaren front row and settled [...]

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Heidfeld fastest in Saturday practice

Nick Heidfeld completed the final practice session at Spa on top as the rain kept on falling. With the showers on and off and a damp track for most of Saturday practice, the BMW just beat McLaren to first with a 1:47.876 ahead of Heikki Kovalainen’s time of 1:48.165.
Lewis Hamilton was behind with a 1:48.356 [...]

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Alonso fights back in second practice

Fernando Alonso set the fastest lap after a wet and slightly chaotic Friday practice two and Spa. The Spanaird took top place away from the earlier pace-setter, Felipe Massa, at the end of the session, by lapping 0.1 second faster.
Mark Webber was caught out in the rush to get back to the pits when the [...]

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Ferrari lead the way at first Spa practice

Felipe Massa finished top of the timesheets at the end of free practice one ahead of this weekends Belgain Grand Prix. He completed 26 laps ending up 0.3 seconds ahead of his teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, as Ferrari started their weekend perfectly. McLaren were just behind, a further 0.2 seconds off the Ferrari’s pace.
Fernando Alonso proved [...]

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