But I’m actually not too bothered about missing pole, as starting second or third can be an advantage in Spa. Hamilton smashes Spa lap record to head Mercedes 1-2. The one in the video is two seconds slower than the 1:41.770 he set later on – for that lap the team took the camera out of the car to save uneccesary weight!Still improvement possible. He added later, “Today was a very clean session.
And a Camaro SS 1LE is one of the ...Top speed was nearly 350kph. There was a lot of great work in the background. Lewis Hamilton says he “just wanted clean air” on both of his Q3 laps in qualifying for Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix to avoid being backed up into the last corner. Spa Francorchamps is a racing venue in Belgium with 147 lap times.This page represents the 7.0 kilometer (4.4 mile) configuration of this track.. Spa Francorchamps is a fast track, with overall average speed of 156 kph (97 mph).
It should be noted that qualifying has never counted towards Lap Records, and I note the table above seems to be composed of qualifying laps.
Rest in peace,” said Hamilton as he crossed the line. Lewis Hamilton stormed to pole for Formula 1's 2020 Belgian Grand Prix ahead of Valtteri Bottas with a new Spa track record, with Max Verstappen pushing Bottas close in third.Both Mercedes drivers and Verstappen will start the race on the medium tyres as they were able to get through Q2 on what is a better race tyre than the red-walled softs the rest of the top 10 will start on if the track is dry.Ferrari managed to avoid losing a driver in Q1, but Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel were both eliminated in the next segment, one year on from the former taking pole at Spa.When it came to Q3, Hamilton led the way after the opening runs with a 1m41.451s - a new track record - while Bottas had time to make up after locking up and running wide on the large kerb at the exit of La Source.But, while Bottas was able to improve early on the final runs on the soft tyres in Q3, Hamilton went even faster - setting personal best times in the first and third sector, and going fastest of anyone in the middle part of the track, where Mercedes has been dominant all weekend.The world champion's last lap looked in control all the way around as he blasted to a 1m41.252s to improve the best time.Running behind, Bottas lost time all around his final lap and wound up 0.511 seconds adrift.Verstappen was left frustrated to finish just 0.015s behind Bottas, complaining that he ran out of battery energy at the end of his final lap.Daniel Ricciardo will start fourth after Verstappen's last-gasp lap pushed him down one spot, with the Renault driver abandoning his final effort.Alex Albon put the second Red Bull fifth ahead of Esteban Ocon, who found enough time with the session's final flying lap to deny Carlos Sainz Jr P6 for McLaren.Racing Point drivers Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll took eighth and ninth after only completing one run in Q3, while Lando Norris rounded out the top 10 after setting a personal best on his last run but not finding enough time to move up the order.Personal best times were not enough to save Daniil Kvyat and Pierre Gasly from elimination in Q2, as the Racing Point drivers gained significantly from their first attempts to get through the middle segment on the medium tyres.Stroll and Perez jumping up the order from P11 and P12 after the first runs ultimately did for the AlphaTauris despite their own improvements, which meant they ended up in the positions just outside the top 10.Both Ferraris were ultimately knocked out in Q2 for the first time in 2020, with Leclerc heading Vettel in P13.George Russell again got his Williams into Q2, but abandoned his first run, with his second good enough only for P15 after the Ferraris found time on their second efforts.In Q1, Vettel was under pressure to improve having sat 19th after the first runs had been completed, but the danger of both works Ferraris being knocked out in the opening segment remained.A battling warm-up lap for the drivers still needing to improve left both Vettel and Leclerc having to run without a tow at the head of a pack of cars.But they still managed to gain enough time to get through to Q2, with Vettel jumping up six spots, although Leclerc had a nervous wait as he was shuffled down to P15, complaining later about the lack of a tow.The top four drivers knocked out in Q1 all set personal bests, but Kimi Raikkonen, Romain Grosjean, Antonio Giovinazzi and Nicholas Latifi could not match the delighted and surprised Russell in splitting the Ferraris.They will start P15-P19, with Kevin Magnussen last in the second Haas after his final run was ruined by a long trip through the Stavelot gravel trap, where he nearly ran into the wall to his left as he struggled to slow his Haas machine.Hamilton smashes Spa lap record to head Mercedes 1-2,Le Mans 24 Hours: Conway leads for Toyota after opening hour, drama in LMP2,Gigi Hadid’s mother says they are ‘waiting patiently’ for her baby,Le Mans 24 Hours: Toyota's Buemi heads morning warm-up session,Good Payouts for Singapore Citizens Born Before 1981,Singapore Airlines pilots agree to deeper pay cuts to save jobs,Ong Ye Kung: No one hurt at God of Wealth Temple fire, deities 'miraculously' unharmed,The #1 Worst Carb to Eat if You're Trying to Lose Weight,Pirlo says Suarez unlikely to join Juventus after all,Sentosa Island: Entrance Fee And Parking Rates,Capture Life's Little Details With The Galaxy S20+,An Iceberg Might NOT Have Sunk the Titanic After All, a New Study Finds.What is the point of a 'travel corridor' with a country we can't even enter.
@FastestLaps a little commonsense is required methinks :).But what's the matter with the Ferrari LaFerrari?So with R spec rubber and no traffic a 2:33-34 lap in the GT3RS should be possible which is 9-10 secs slower than the Senna. Here's an example for Spa-Francorchamps:
The track was damp, there was a passenger and it was in traffic!? Established lap record format can be read in the circuits infoxbox.
I got a 2:12.512.Hi, Romain MONTI did a 2:32:21 with a Alpin A110 GT4 here :The track record wasn’t with the Ferrari SF71H but with Ferrari SF90. Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Get up to speed with everything you need to know about the 2020 Belgian Grand Prix, which takes place over 44 laps of the 7.004-kilometre Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday, August 30. MARIO ISOLA - HEAD OF F1 AND CAR RACING “There were only a few drops of rain seen earlier today, and on the P Zero Red soft tyres – one step softer than the softest compound we brought to Spa last year – Lewis Hamilton broke the all-time Spa lap record four times during qualifying, including once on … @Freakz @benedekpuskas Yet another example of a bullshit lap time that should not be on the Spa lap time list. Every lap was getting better and better.
His best effort was sublime, near perfect, stopping the clocks at 1:41.252 and a lap-record for good measure. The extra 300hp and lighter weight with greater downforce makes a big difference at Spa...Pagani Zonda R - time: 2.25.05 (Asetto Corsa).2:45.00 Spa Francorchamps Porsche Carrera GT, stock tires: michelin pilot sport.Un-restricted Porsche 919 Hybrid - 1:41.77.Porsche has released the on-board footage of one of Neel Jani’s laps of Spa-Francorchamps in the Porsche 919 Hybrid ‘Evo’ last month.
The team’s No. On what has already been a miserable weekend at Spa-Francorchamps, the Italian outfit’s woes continued in qualifying as it failed to get at least one car into Q3 for the first time this season.