Belgian Grand Prix: the official starting grid
Discover the starting grid for the Belgian Grand Prix, fourteenth round of the 2022 Formula 1 world championship, this Sunday at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
We knew it since the start of the weekend, but a good number of pilots tried a nice rain of functionalities for the changes of engine components even before the verdict of the qualifier of the Grand Prix of Belgium, this weekend in the valley Red Water.
In addition to Esteban Ocon (Alpine), Valtteri Bottas (Alfa Romeo), Guanyu Zhou (Alfa Romeo), Lando Norris (McLaren) and Mick Schumacher (Haas), Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) and Max Verstappen (Red Bull) will also start from the soft underbelly of the peloton!
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A race within the race!
Ignoring the circumstances, the championship leader demonstrated all his ease and the competitiveness of his machine by setting the fastest time in qualifying Q3, six tenths faster than Carlos Sainz.
If he sets off in front of the pack, the Spaniard will have to keep an eye in his mirrors with Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), but also Fernando Alonso (Alpine) and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) on the first and second rows of the grid.
One of the hot spots of the upcoming race will also be the expected comeback from Verstappen and Leclerc, side by side on the eighth row of the starting grid. To what extent could they interfere in the fight for the big points or even the podium? Answer from 3 p.m. (here the program).
Discover below the starting grid of the Belgian Formula 1 Grand Prix 2022:
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