The records just keep on falling to Red Bull and Max Verstappen, who showed no sign of releasing their vice-like grip on the 2023 titles in Belgium on Sunday. There were, however, some notable numbers for plenty of others on the grid – here’s our round-up from Spa.
• Verstappen won by 22.305s. Last year he won this race by 17.841s.
• It was Verstappen’s eighth consecutive championship race win, just one short of the all-time record held by Sebastian Vettel from 2013.
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• Prior to today, Verstappen had never won from sixth on the grid. It means he ties Fernando Alonso's record of nine winning grid positions.
• With 314 points so far in 2023, Verstappen has already exceeded Vettel's championship-winning points totals in 2010 (256 points) and 2012 (281 points).
• Today was Verstappen’s 13th consecutive podium finish (the fourth-longest streak in history).
• Verstappen will arrive at his home race next month having not lost a Grand Prix or a Sprint event in almost four months (since Azerbaijan on April 30th).
• In finishing one-two for their 12th win of the year, Red Bull broke the record for most victories from the beginning of a single season (McLaren won the first 11 races in 1988).
• It was Red Bull's fifth one-two finish of the season and ties their best-ever season total, set in 2022.
• Red Bull finished one-two in Belgium for the second year in a row.
• P2 was Perez’s best finish since the Miami Grand Prix, seven races ago.
• It was Perez’s 33rd career podium, surpassing Daniel Ricciardo's career total.
• With P3, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took his third podium finish of the year.
• Leclerc has now failed to win his last nine starts from first on the grid.
• Perez finished 4.5s further behind Verstappen today than he did when finishing second behind his team mate in last year's Belgian Grand Prix.
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• After finishing P4 for Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton has scored in every race this season.
• He also set the fastest lap of the race, meaning he is now only one point behind Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso in the battle for third in the drivers' championship.
• Alonso finished fifth in Belgium for the second year in a row.
• Mercedes’ George Russell finished sixth for the second consecutive weekend, having never finished sixth before in his entire F1 career.
• With P7 for McLaren, Lando Norris tied his best-ever Spa result (he previously finished seventh in 2020).
• After taking P8 for Alpine, Esteban Ocon has now scored points at Spa in his last six consecutive appearances.
• It was his first points-finish since Canada, four races ago.
• With P9 for Aston Martin, Lance Stroll tied his best-ever Belgian Grand Prix finish (2020).
• Stroll has not had a top-eight finish in the last five races.
• Yuki Tsunoda took P10 and has scored all of AlphaTauri's points in 2023.
• Tsunoda has now finished 10th on three occasions this year (Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium).
• Pierre Gasly could only manage P11, but still scored more points in yesterday's Sprint (six) than Alpine team mate ocon scored in today's Grand Prix (four).
• Carlos Sainz’s DNF for Ferrari was his fourth failure to finish at Spa (fifth when including his did-not-start in 2020).
• Oscar Piastri’s early DNF for McLaren was his first retirement since his F1 debut in Bahrain at the start of the season.
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