2010 Belgian Grand Prix

2010 Belgian Grand Prix
2010 Belgian Grand Prix
Race 13 of 19 in the 2010 Formula One World Championship
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Race details
Date	29 August 2010
Official name	2010 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix
Location	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	7.004 km (4.352 miles)
Distance	44 laps, 308.052 km (191.415 miles)
Weather	Intermittent rain
Attendance	60,000
Pole position
Driver	Mark Webber;
Time	1:45.778
Fastest lap
Driver	Lewis Hamilton
Time	1:49.069 on lap 32
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton;
Second	Mark Webber;
Third	Robert Kubica;
	Lap leaders ;

The 2010 Belgian Grand Prix (officially the 2010 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held before a crowd of 60,000 spectators at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Francorchamps, Wallonia, Belgium, on 29 August. It was the 13th round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship and the 55th Belgian Grand Prix held as part of the Formula One World Championship. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won the 44-lap race after starting from second position. Red Bull's Mark Webber was second ahead of Robert Kubica's third-placed Renault. It was Hamilton's third victory of the season and the 14th of his career.

Webber, who led the World Drivers' Championship with a four-point lead over Hamilton and his team Red Bull led the World Constructors' Championship, achieved the sixth pole position of his career by setting the fastest lap in qualifying but started slowly and immediately lost the lead to Hamilton. The Grand Prix was slowed by two safety car deployments due to a collision between the Williams car of Rubens Barrichello and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso on the first lap and another accident for Alonso on the 38th lap. Hamilton led throughout in variable weather, despite running into a gravel trap on lap 35, and finished 11⁄2 seconds ahead of Webber. Kubica took his last podium by finishing third after overshooting the entry to his pit lane box late in the race.

The result returned Hamilton to the top of the World Drivers' Championship standings with 182 points, three ahead of the previous leader Webber in second. Webber's teammate Sebastian Vettel remained in third despite coming 15th after colliding with Jenson Button and sustaining a left-rear puncture from contact with Vitantonio Liuzzi's Force India car. McLaren lowered Red Bull's World Constructors' Championship lead to one point with Ferrari third with six races left in the season.

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[CF1Race-1] "2010 Belgian GP". ChicaneF1. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
"2010 Belgian Grand Prix". Motor Sport. Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 21 March 2022.

[AutosportMagReport-2] Hughes, Mark; Straw, Edd (2 September 2010). "Spa Restores Health to Hamilton Hopes" (PDF). Autosport. 201 (10): 30–41. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2020.

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