2014 Belgian Grand Prix
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| Race 12 of 19 in the 2014 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
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| Date | 24 August 2014 | ||
| Official name | 2014 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix | ||
| Location |
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Stavelot, Belgium |
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| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||
| Course length | 7.004 km (4.352 mi) | ||
| Distance | 44 laps, 308.052 km (191.415 mi) | ||
| Weather | Mostly cloudy with maximum temperatures reaching 16 degrees during the day. | ||
| Attendance | 80,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 2:05.591 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:50.511 on lap 36 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Red Bull Racing-Renault | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Williams-Mercedes | ||
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The 2014 Belgian Grand Prix (formally the 2014 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 24 August 2014 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It was the twelfth round of the 2014 Formula One season, and the 70th Belgian Grand Prix. The 44-lap race was won by Daniel Ricciardo for the Red Bull team, after starting from fifth position. Nico Rosberg finished second in a Mercedes, with Valtteri Bottas third for the Williams team.
The victory was Ricciardo's second consecutive win; he started from fourth on the grid to win the Hungarian Grand Prix four weeks prior. Rosberg's second place increased his gap to Hamilton in the Drivers' Championship to 29 points. Mercedes established a 157-point lead over Red Bull team in the Constructors' Championship, with seven races of the season remaining.
The Grand Prix was contested by eleven teams, each of two drivers. The teams, also known as constructors, were Red Bull, Mercedes, Ferrari, Lotus, McLaren, Force India, Sauber, Toro Rosso, Williams, Marussia and Caterham. Tyre supplier Pirelli brought four different tyre compounds for the race; two dry compounds, the medium "primes" and the soft "options" and two wet-weather compounds, the intermediate and full wet. The drag reduction system (DRS) had two activation zones for the race; one was on the start/finish straight from the final to first corners, and the second on the straight between turns four and five.
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