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The drivers who impressed and floundered in Belgium as Max Verstappen increased his world championship lead even further. Max Verstappen after winning in ...

Another one of those Sundays where Ricciardo seemed to inexplicably drop much further down the order than his starting position without a clear reason. A strong day’s work to earn his first point in six races. Started strongly and was briefly ahead of Verstappen, but was forced to pit early after a tear-off strip became lodged in the front right corner of his car and caused smoke. Was blameless in the early contact with Hamilton, but that cost him a couple of places after a strong start saw him move up to second behind Sainz. Lost a slew of places after lights out due to a desperately slow start, but was able to move back up after Alonso and Hamilton’s incident. In a class of his own.

The Red Bull driver is 93 points clear of teammate Sergio Perez with ninth win of the season.

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F1 2022 Drivers Championship 1) Max Verstappen - 284 points 2) Sergio Perez - 191 points 3) Charles Leclerc - 186 points 4) Carlos Sainz - 171 points.

Sainz, Bottas, Verstappen and Leclerc are on the soft, while Tsunoda is on the hards as they begin the formation lap. The Mercedes man is struggling and he looks to be out of the race! Russell is right on the Red Bull before defending third from Alonso. He's followed by Alonso and Hamilton, and the two former teammates make contact! The Dutchman is on a different level today. The Spaniard's holding on to a 2s advantage over Russell, but the gap continues to shrink. That's the only the only way to describe Verstappen today, as he crosses the line to take his ninth victory of the season despite starting down in P14. Perez pits and rejoins third ahead of Leclerc, with Verstappen pitting a lap later. He then takes P3 from Russell and is just 4.3s behind race leader Sainz... Teammate Leclerc is making good progress and sits P7 The start time for today's race at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is 15:00 CEST, making it 14:00 BST. He's already pulled out 2.5s advantage as well, confirming that it's race to lose at this point.

Max Verstappen has come out of the summer break in an excellent way at the Belgian Grand Prix. With his victory on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit he ...

[Nicholas Latifi](/en/f1-drivers/nicholas-latifi) is still empty-handed after the Belgian GP. [Charles Leclerc](/en/f1-drivers/charles-leclerc) lost his second place in the championship to Perez. [Sergio Perez](/en/f1-drivers/sergio-perez) also did good business.

That was as crushing a performance as you are likely to see in F1 as Max Verstappen further strengthened his hold on a second title.

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