Mercedes AMG Petronas driver’s Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg scored a combined 27 points secured at the Belgian Grand Prix Sunday, finishing third and fourth at Spa-Francorchamps.
Hamilton started off in pole position but was passed in the first lap by Red Bull’s Sebastion Vettel, who would go on to finish first. Starting 9th on the grid, Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso raced past the pack including Hamilton to finish 2nd. Holding off the rest of the pack and running a two-stop strategy, Hamilton finished the Belgian grand prix in third, scoring enough point to put him in third place in the Drivers’ Championship.
Nico, running the same two-stop strategy, finished just behind his Mercedes teammate for a fourth place finish, holding off the relentless Mark Webber.
With Hamilton and Rosberg’s successful finishes, they hold on to second in the Constructors’ Championship.
| Drivers | Car No. | Chassis No. | Race Result / Fastest Lap |
| Nico Rosberg | 9 | F1 W04 / 03 | P4 1:51.582 |
| Lewis Hamilton | 10 | F1 W04 / 04 | P3 1:51.596 |
| Weather | Dry and cool throughout | |
| Temperatures | Air: 19-21°C | Track: 24-27°C |
Lewis Hamilton
I got everything that I could out of the car today but we just weren’t as quick as Sebastian and Fernando. I made a nice start and it felt like the exit out of turn one was good, too. But Seb just caught me on the run out of Eau Rouge and there wasn’t really much I could do to defend: I moved once, like we are allowed to, but then I just had to watch him glide by. From that point, it was very difficult to hold on to him, and the same thing happened with Fernando, too, later in the race. We have done a good job this weekend but Spa and Monza are always unique tracks because of the low-drag requirements and I expect we will be more competitive in Singapore again. It’s still a great team result to finish third with Nico right behind me in fourth, so we will take the positives from this afternoon into the next races.
Nico Rosberg
Fourth place was a reasonable result for me today, and it’s great that we achieved a strong points finish for the team with Lewis’ third place as well. The whole weekend hasn’t gone perfectly for me and you are always slightly on the back foot in the race when qualifying doesn’t go as well as planned. I had a great start but I wasn’t able to go as long as planned on the second stint and I had to cover Felipe. But in the end, it was nice to keep Mark behind me and get fourth place. We have a lot of work ahead of us now and we need to look into why we weren’t as competitive as a couple of the other teams today.
Ross Brawn
It is a measure of how far we have come in the past 12 months that a race which would have been our result of the season last year now feels slightly average. However, we must keep things in perspective: this was a good team result, we scored a good haul of points for both championships, but we were on average half a second off the pace we needed to fight for the win at this track, especially when the tyres were new. The performance of both cars was pretty respectable by the end of the race but we were not quick enough in the early stages. Both drivers delivered a fault-free performance and the team performed well at the pit stops, so we got the maximum out of the car this afternoon. It’s a good foundation for the second half of our season and we now need to find a little more performance for the next races.
Toto Wolff
We expected the race would be tougher for us in dry conditions compared to the mixed wet-dry weather we experienced yesterday in qualifying. Even so, we now have to analyse why we were lacking some performance relative to other teams when we debrief this evening and back at the factory next week. Third and fourth positions represent a very solid team result and good points for the Constructors’ Championship, so we can be happy with what we achieved this weekend. And we will keep working hard back at base for the next races.
