{"id":485721,"date":"2024-07-28T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485721"},"modified":"2024-07-28T11:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T15:01:50","slug":"russell-triumphs-at-the-belgium-gp-mercedes-with-1-2-at-spa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/russell-triumphs-at-the-belgium-gp-mercedes-with-1-2-at-spa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell triumphs at the Belgium GP, Mercedes with 1-2 at Spa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell held off Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton to secure the win at a tense Belgium GP as the top 3 were split by just 1.1 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis was the favorite to triumph at Spa for most time of the race, but George defeated him with a 1-stop strategy while the rest of his competitors in the leading positions were on a 2-stop strategy that cost them better finishes.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">INCREDIBLE!!!! <\/p>\n<p>GEORGE RUSSELL WINS THE BELGIAN GRAND PRIX!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BelgianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BelgianGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Mu56COgmGW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Mu56COgmGW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1817567145338769769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Britain was within a second of George in the final 4 laps but couldn\u2019t overcome his teammate for the victory.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar Piastri is the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> racer at the podium after closing in on the Mercedes duo in the final several laps, while Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc finished 4<sup>th<\/sup> after starting 1<sup>st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Max Verstappen, who started from the 11<sup>th<\/sup> position, and McLaren pilots were never close to overcoming Russell and Hamilton as Mercedes secured its 2<sup>nd<\/sup> victory in 3 races and its 1<sup>st<\/sup> 1-2 since the 2022 Brazilian GP.<\/p>\n<p>Championship leader Verstappen finished 5th as that was enough to extend his lead at the top over Lando Norris, who finished right behind him after the McLaren pilot made a slow start.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our top 10 at Spa \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BelgianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BelgianGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IvUCFtnO2Z\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/IvUCFtnO2Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1817572224150491199?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Russell held off Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton to secure the win at a tense Belgium GP as the top 3 were split [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485722,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17680,17140,16926],"news_category":[16921,16715],"gn_keywords":[18340,17856,1081],"acf":{"announce":"George led Mercedes to a 1-2 victory at the Belgium Grand Prix.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485721"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485724,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485721\/revisions\/485724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485721"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485721"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}