Lewis Hamilton Wins Belgian GP After Teammate DQ

Update (1:11 p.m. ET): Lewis Hamilton has been named the winner of the Belgian Grand Prix in Formula 1 after George Russell was disqualified due to an underwight car.

A postrace report announced that Russell’s Mercedes that the car’s fuel reserves were not fully drained when it was weighed; once reweighed after 2.8 additional liters were removed, it was found to be under the minimum 798-kg. weight, coming in instead at 796.5.

Oscar Piastri has been promoted to second, while Charles Leclerc is now credited with third.

“We have to take it on the chin if the stewards decide against ourselves,” Mercedes’ Toto Wolff said prior to the ruling, according to the F1 website. “It is what it is, the mistake has happened.

“We have to learn from that. As a team there are more positives to take, obviously for George it’s a massive blow.”

The win marks Hamilton’s second victory of 2024.

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Original article: George Russell executed a one-stop strategy to capture the win in the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa Francorchamps on Sunday (July 28).

“The car was feeling really, really great,” Russell told Sky Sports. “We were back and forth on the comms like, ‘I think the one stop — let’s consider the one stop. Tires are good. Tires are good.’

“And I got to be honest, I was rolling the dice a little bit. But suddenly, I got them into a really nice window. I got in that groove, and when I was in the lead, it was totally clean air ahead. There was no back markers, no one else around, and [I] kind of felt like one with the track. And it just really allowed me to get into such a great rhythm, almost like I was driving a simulator. We couldn’t have dreamt of a 1-2 [finish] this morning.”