The 2023 Belgian Grand Prix Thread

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This is the place to discuss everything related to the 13th round of the 2023 season taking place in Spa between the July 28th-30th.

The event timetable for the Belgian Grand Prix.

Friday
Practice 13:30 local time - 11:30 GMT
Qualifying 17:00 local time - 15:00 GMT

Saturday
Sprint Shootout 12:00 local time - 10:00 GMT
Sprint 16:30 local time - 14:30 GMT

Sunday
Race 15:00 local time - 13:00 GMT

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Practice Results

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Pos	Time		Driver		  Team
1	2:03.207	Carlos Sainz	  Ferrari
2	2:03.792	Oscar Piastri	  McLaren
3	2:04.484	Lando Norris	  McLaren
4	2:08.148	Charles Leclerc	  Ferrari
5	2:08.240	Sergio Perez	  Red Bull Racing
6	2:08.394	Alexander Albon	  Williams
7	2:09.067	Yuki Tsunoda	  AlphaTauri
8	2:09.229	Kevin Magnussen	  Haas
9	2:09.319	Daniel Ricciardo  AlphaTauri
10	2:10.042	Nico Hulkenberg	  Haas
11	2:10.283	Fernando Alonso	  Aston Martin
12	2:10.299	Lewis Hamilton	  Mercedes
13	2:10.475	George Russell	  Mercedes
14	2:12.085	Valtteri Bottas	  Alfa Romeo
15	2:14.002	Zhou Guanyu	  Alfa Romeo
16	No Time		Logan Sargeant	  Williams
17	No Time		Lance Stroll	  Aston Martin
18	No Time		Pierre Gasly	  Alpine
19	No Time		Esteban Ocon	  Alpine
20	No Time		Max Verstappen	  Red Bull Racing

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Qualifying

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Pos	Time		Driver		  Team
1	1:46.988	Charles Leclerc	  Ferrari
2	1:47.045	Sergio Perez	  Red Bull Racing
3	1:47.087	Lewis Hamilton	  Mercedes
4	1:47.152	Carlos Sainz	  Ferrari
5	1:47.365	Oscar Piastri	  McLaren
6	1:46.168	Max Verstappen	  Red Bull Racing
7	1:47.669	Lando Norris	  McLaren
8	1:47.805	George Russell	  Mercedes
9	1:47.843	Fernando Alonso	  Aston Martin
10	1:48.841	Lance Stroll	  Aston Martin
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11	1:53.148	Yuki Tsunoda	  AlphaTauri
12	1:53.671	Pierre Gasly	  Alpine
13	1:54.694	Valtteri Bottas	  Alfa Romeo
14	1:56.372	Esteban Ocon	  Alpine
15	2:00.314	Alexander Albon	  Williams
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16	1:54.160	Kevin Magnussen	  Haas
17	2:00.832	Zhou Guanyu	  Alfa Romeo
18	2:01.535	Logan Sargeant	  Williams
19	2:02.159	Daniel Ricciardo  AlphaTauri
20	2:03.166	Nico Hulkenberg	  Haas

Max Verstappen had a 5 place grid penalty applied to his qualifying pushing him from position 1 to position 6.
Kevin Magnussen had a 3 place grid penalty for impeding Charles Leclerc in Q2 applied to push him into position 16.

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Sprint Qualifying

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Pos	Time		Driver		  Team
1	1:49.056	Max Verstappen	  Red Bull Racing
2	1:49.067	Oscar Piastri	  McLaren
3	1:49.081	Carlos Sainz	  Ferrari
4	1:49.251	Charles Leclerc	  Ferrari
5	1:49.389	Lando Norris	  McLaren
6	1:49.700	Pierre Gasly	  Alpine
7	1:49.900	Lewis Hamilton	  Mercedes
8	1:49.961	Sergio Perez	  Red Bull Racing
9	1:50.494	Esteban Ocon	  Alpine
10	1:55.742	George Russell	  Mercedes
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11	1:57.687	Daniel Ricciardo  AlphaTauri
12	No Time		Alexander Albon	  Williams
13	No Time		Logan Sargeant	  Williams
14	No Time		Lance Stroll	  Aston Martin
15	No Time		Fernando Alonso	  Aston Martin
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16	2:00.568	Yuki Tsunoda	  AlphaTauri
17	2:00.951	Valtteri Bottas	  Alfa Romeo
18	2:01.079	Kevin Magnussen	  Haas
19	2:01.430	Zhou Guanyu	  Alfa Romeo
20	No Time		Nico Hulkenberg	  Haas

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Sprint

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Pos	Driver	 	  Team
1	Max Verstappen	  Red Bull Racing
2	Oscar Piastri	  McLaren
3	Pierre Gasly	  Alpine
4	Carlos Sainz	  Ferrari
5	Charles Leclerc	  Ferrari
6	Lando Norris	  McLaren
7	Lewis Hamilton	  Mercedes
8	George Russell	  Mercedes
9	Esteban Ocon	  Alpine
10	Daniel Ricciardo  AlphaTauri
11	Lance Stroll	  Aston Martin 
12	Alexander Albon	  Williams
13	Valtteri Bottas	  Alfa Romeo
14	Kevin Magnussen	  Haas
15	Zhou Guanyu	  Alfa Romeo
16	Logan Sargeant	  Williams
17	Nico Hulkenberg	  Haas
18	Yuki Tsunoda	  AlphaTauri
DNF	Sergio Perez	  Red Bull Racing
DNF	Fernando Alonso	  Aramco Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton and Logan Sargeant received 5 second penalties which have been applied to the results.

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Race

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Pos	Driver		  Team
1	Max Verstappen	  Red Bull Racing
2	Sergio Perez	  Red Bull Racing
3	Charles Leclerc	  Ferrari
4	Lewis Hamilton	  Mercedes
5	Fernando Alonso	  Aston Martin
6	George Russell	  Mercedes
7	Lando Norris	  McLaren
8	Esteban Ocon	  Alpine
9	Lance Stroll	  Aston Martin
10	Yuki Tsunoda	  AlphaTauri
11	Pierre Gasly	  Alpine
12	Valtteri Bottas	  Alfa Romeo
13	Zhou Guanyu	  Alfa Romeo
14	Alexander Albon	  Williams
15	Kevin Magnussen	  Haas
16	Daniel Ricciardo  AlphaTauri
17	Logan Sargeant	  Williams
18	Nico Hulkenberg	  Haas
DNF	Carlos Sainz	  Ferrari
DNF	Oscar Piastri	  McLaren

Next: Round of Netherlands '23
Date: 25-27th August 2023
But before that, the summer break.