Lewis Hamilton inherited victory in the Belgian Grand Prix after Mercedes team-mate George Russell was disqualified hours after taking an unlikely win on the track.
His car was found to be 1.5kg underweight, with his team admitting to “a genuine error”. That saw Hamilton promoted to a victory that had looked likely for much of the race – after he took the lead from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc on the second lap.
Oscar Piastri is moved up to second, with Leclerc third and Max Verstappen fourth.
George Russell held off Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to take a stunning victory from sixth on the grid in an engrossing Belgian Grand Prix.
Russell put in an extraordinary drive to run an unusual one-stop strategy in a race that featured battles throughout the leading places.
He had to fend off a seven-time champion on tyres that were 15 laps fresher for five laps at the end off the race but pulled it off in impressive style, having called the strategy himself from the car.
Hamilton was closing in at nearly a second a lap in the final laps but, as so many other drivers found, overtaking was harder than expected and he could never quite get close enough to challenge.
As Russell clung on in the final two or three laps, McLaren’s Oscar Piastri closed in on Hamilton to set up a grandstand finish, and the three cars crossed the line nose to tail.
Charles Leclerc who had been passed by Piastri spent the closing laps fending off Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and the second McLaren of Lando Norris.
Behind Norris, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz passed Red Bull’s Sergio Perez with five laps to go to raise further questions about Perez’s future. Alonso, Ocon & Ricciardo completed the final three point scoring positions.
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