Belgium has selected Lukas Dhont’s Cannes-winning title Close as its official submission to the International Oscar race this year.
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LIVE – Updated at 17:47Carlos Sainz will start Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix on pole, with first in qualifying Max Verstappen taking an engine penalty and starting from the back of the grid. Sergio Perez will start alongside the Ferrari on the front row having come home third, while Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton will occupy the second row in third and fourth respectively on Sunday, with George Russell and the impressive Alex Albon behind. Hamilton in particular could not believe the 1.
8 second gap in qualifying to Verstappen in first. Verstappen will start from 15th as one of six drivers taking penalties, with Charles Leclerc 16th, Esteban Ocon 17th and Lando Norris 18th. Daniel Ricciardo will start the race in 7th despite not pushing his McLare into Q3 on Saturday - with Pierre Gasly 8th, Zhou Guanyu 9th and Lance Stroll 10th.
Round 14 of the 2022 Formula 1 season takes place at 2pm (BST) on Sunday with a dramatic race expected around Spa-Francorchamps - we will have full coverage here at The Independent. Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz will start Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix from the front of the grid despite Max Verstappen obliterating the field in qualifying. World champion Verstappen took pole position by almost seven tenths, but he will be relegated to 15th after serving a penalty for an engine change.
Leclerc, who trails Verstappen by 80 points and is also penalised after taking on a new power unit on Formula One’s return to action following the summer break, is demoted from fourth to 16th. Sergio Perez moves up to second. Despite the penalties for Verstappen and Leclerc, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will start only fourth and fifth respectively.
Belgium has selected Lukas Dhont’s Cannes-winning title Close as its official submission to the International Oscar race this year.
Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton received an apology from team prinicipal Toto Wolff after a strategy error robbed the Briton of a first race victory of the season at the Dutch Grand Prix. The seven-time champion unleashed a tirade of expletives at his team after being passed by Max Verstappen, and then team-mate George Russell and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, following the safety car restart before coming home in fourth. Hamilton's race engineer Peter Bennington apologised to Hamilton for the events that led to the Briton coming home in fourth place and promised to review the incidents later in the day.
LIVE – Updated at 11:10The Formula 1 season continues after its return in Belgium last week with this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, with Max Verstappen holding a healthy 93-point lead in the World Championship with eight races to go. The Red Bull star stormed to victory at Spa-Francorchamps at the weekend, winning by a margin of 18 seconds to team-mate Sergio Perez despite starting in P14 due to an engine penalty; Carlos Sainz took the other podium spot as he held off George Russell late on, while Charles Leclerc finished sixth.
Lewis Hamilton has been called 'stupid' by former Formula One driver Christian Danner after the Mercedes star crashed into Fernando Alonso in the first lap of the Belgian Grand Prix. The seven-time world champion was sent airborne from the accident and the damage forced the Briton to retire while the Alpine man was able to recover to finish an impressive fifth. The incident came as the former McLaren team-mates jostled for position down the Kemmel straight.
Lewis Hamilton has claimed he "doesn't care" after Fernando Alonso called the Mercedes star an "idiot" after their lap one crash at the Belgian Grand Prix. Hamilton swept around the outside of Fernando Alonso in a bid to take second place on lap one. However, the pair made contact at Les Combes with Alonso's front-wing smashing into Hamilton's rear-right tyre.