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Hamilton was given a five-second penalty for clashing with Perez in Saturday's Sprint, pitting a hole in the Red Bull's sidepod which ended the Mexican's chances of points

The F1 stewards took a dim view of Hamilton's clash with Sergio Perez, which resulted in the Red Bull racer picking up damage and being forced to retire from the Sprint

The first four racing laps of the Sprint took place behind the safety car after heavy rain at Spa-Francorchamps, followed by a rolling start with Max Verstappen leading the pack

Verstappen was angry after almost suffering an awful result in qualifying for the Spa-Francorchamps race, and made sure his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase knew about it

There won't be many things that the historic Spa-Francorchamps track hasn't seen over the decades, but even for this venue the sight of a headrest flying off the car leading a race was a novel event

Perez's qualifying record late has been abysmal and, despite a better showing on Friday at Spa-Francorchamps, the Red Bull racer struggled again in the Sprint Shootout

Both Mercedes drivers produced underwhelming results in Sprint qualifying, with Hamilton not helped by a mistake from his team-mate Russell which slowed the seven-time world champion

Verstappen took pole position for the Sprint race at Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, but only narrowly managed to fend off Piastri who put in a remarkable final lap

Despite only starting seventh on the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix, a drop on last week's qualifying performance, Lando Norris recognised things could be worse

Aston Martin were the first team to gamble on slick tyres on a drying track in the Sprint Shootout on Saturday, but the lack of grip sent Stroll smashing into a barrier

The 2016 world champion is the subject of a tongue-in-cheek garage ban from F1 team McLaren after two more recent incidents where the 'Rosberg curse' took effect

Prost became F1 world champion in a Renault-powered Williams and has a long-standing affiliation with the French carmaker, but did not hesitate to launch a full-scale attack on its Alpine F1 team

Verstappen may have gone fastest overall in qualifying for Sunday's race at Spa-Francorchamps, but the Red Bull racer was clearly not a happy man during the session

As has become commonplace in F1 this season, the result of qualifying changed once the action was over as the F1 stewards decided to punish a driver for an incident

Hamilton will start ahead of Verstappen on the Belgian Grand Prix grid, but only because a penalty dropped the Red Bull racer from pole position to sixth in the order

Hamilton qualified fourth quickest at Spa and then rose a place thanks to a penalty for Max Verstappen, but now could be in for a grid drop of his own for Sunday's race

Max Verstappen knew his best Belgian Grand Prix starting position would be sixth, having taken an extra gearbox which came with a five-place grid penalty for the championship leader

Max Verstappen managed will start sixth at this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix but was clearly left frustrated and took his anger out on Gianpiero Lambiase, who had a few choice words in response

Russell snapped at fellow Brit Hamilton in a radio message to his Mercedes team during the first part of qualifying on a wet but swiftly drying Spa-Francorchamps track

Rosberg is often on duty at F1 race weekends in his role as a pundit for broadcasters including Sky Sports, and has been noted for being an apparent 'curse' for some teams

Szafnauer was team principal at Alpine for 18 months, but is out of a job after this weekend's Belgian GP with long-serving sporting director Alan Permane also axed

F1 drivers were pretty much unanimous in their concerns about a planned rule change for the 2024 F1 season, which they warned would lead to significant safety concerns

Szafnauer left the Racing Point team as it was rebranded to become Aston Martin to take on the role at Renault-owned Alpine, but is a casualty of the team's boardroom reshuffle

F1 Academy launched this year giving 15 female racers a seat in a championship which slots in on the single-seater ladder up to Formula 1, and is set to ramp up from next season

Mercedes have an exciting all-British driver line-up in Lewis Hamilton and George Russell while Max Verstappen is joined by multi race-winner Sergio Perez at Red Bull, but Schumacher thinks another is more ideally balanced