2015 Belgian Grand Prix

2015 Belgian Grand Prix
2015 Belgian Grand Prix
Race 11 of 19 in the 2015 Formula One World Championship
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	Layout of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
Race details
Date	23 August 2015
Official name	2015 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix
Location	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps; Stavelot, Belgium
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	7.004 km (4.352 miles)
Distance	43 laps, 301.048 km (187.063 miles)
Scheduled distance	44 laps, 308.052 km (191.415 miles)
Weather	Cloudy; 23 °C (73 °F) air temperature; 33–37 °C (91–99 °F) track temperature; 3.5 m/s (11 ft/s) wind from the northwest
Pole position
Driver	Lewis Hamilton;
Time	1:47.197
Fastest lap
Driver	Nico Rosberg
Time	1:52.416 on lap 34
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton;
Second	Nico Rosberg;
Third	Romain Grosjean;
	Lap leaders ;

The 2015 Belgian Grand Prix (formally the 2015 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 23 August 2015 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It was the eleventh round of the 2015 Formula One season, and the 71st Belgian Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes entered the event as the overall Drivers' Championship leader, 21 points ahead of his teammate Nico Rosberg and 42 points ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. Mercedes led the Constructors' Championship by 147 points over Ferrari, while Williams entered the event in third, a further 85 points adrift. Having won the 2014 edition, Daniel Ricciardo was the defending race winner.

Lewis Hamilton won the race for Mercedes, extending his championship lead over Rosberg, who finished second, to 28 points. Romain Grosjean and Lotus secured a podium finish for the first time since the 2013 United States Grand Prix, Grosjean's last to date, benefitting from a controversial tyre failure on Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari late in the race.

The race was celebrated by Scuderia Ferrari as their 900th Grand Prix participation. McLaren was handed a record 105-place grid penalty for a multitude of changes to their Honda power units.

This was the last podium for a French driver until Pierre Gasly at the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix.

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