Hamilton grabs pole in Belgium

f1 Hamilton grabs pole in Belgium

Hamilton claims pole in Belgium

Hamilton dominates Qualifying in Belgium

World Champion Lewis Hamilton grabs a dominating pole for the Belgium Grand Prix by beating Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg by almost half a second.

Williams driver Valteri Bottas starts in the 2nd row ahead of Romain Grosjean of Lotus.

Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix Qualifying Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	LEWIS HAMILTON	MERCEDES	1:48.908	1:48.024	1:47.197
2	NICO ROSBERG	MERCEDES	1:48.923	1:47.955	1:47.655
3	VALTTERI BOTTAS	WILLIAMS	1:49.026	1:49.044	1:48.537
4	ROMAIN GROSJEAN	LOTUS	1:49.353	1:48.981	1:48.561
5	SERGIO PEREZ	FORCE INDIA	1:49.006	1:48.792	1:48.599
6	DANIEL RICCIARDO	RED BULL RACING	1:49.664	1:49.042	1:48.639
7	FELIPE MASSA	WILLIAMS	1:49.688	1:48.806	1:48.685
8	PASTOR MALDONADO	LOTUS	1:49.568	1:48.956	1:48.754
9	SEBASTIAN VETTEL	FERRARI	1:49.264	1:48.761	1:48.825
10	CARLOS SAINZ	TORO ROSSO	1:49.109	1:49.065	1:49.771
11	NICO HULKENBERG	FORCE INDIA	1:49.499	1:49.121
12	DANIIL KVYAT	RED BULL RACING	1:49.469	1:49.228
13	MARCUS ERICSSON	SAUBER	1:49.523	1:49.586
14	KIMI RÄIKKÖNEN	FERRARI	1:49.288
15	MAX VERSTAPPEN	TORO ROSSO	1:49.831
16	FELIPE NASR	SAUBER	1:49.952
17	JENSON BUTTON	MCLAREN	1:50.978
18	FERNANDO ALONSO	MCLAREN	1:51.420
19	WILL STEVENS	MARUSSIA	1:52.948
20	ROBERTO MERHI	MARUSSIA	1:53.099

Note - Verstappen, Button and Alonso drop 10, 50 and 55 grid places respectively for power unit/power unit component changes. Grosjean drops 5 places for gearbox change.

Note - Q1 107% time: 1:56.531

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