F 1......START YOUR ENGINES

Brillian win by Alonso. This championship is not so wide anymore. Ferrari on the way back, but Vettel still a good outsider.Great stuff to see Niki Lauda handling the interviews. What a great race.

Having dominated every practice and qualifying session bar FP3, Lewis Hamilton took a superb pole position - McLaren's 150th - at the Hungaroring on Saturday afternoon. Hamilton set the pace throughout and saw Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel fail to beat his 1m 21.260s lap.

Vettel managed 1m 21.416s, but in the final seconds Romain Grosjean thrust his Lotus round in 1m 21.366s to push the German down to third

Difficult track, but Hamilton won here being on pole in 2007. Mercedes battling! Great day's racing tmo. I'm going Hamilton.

Hamilton wins


It may have been a slow-burning affair, but Sunday's Hungarian race didn’t lack drama with Mclaren’s Lewis Hamilton expertly resisting pressure throughout from the Lotuses of Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean to win from the front.

On a day when the best that title contenders Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel could muster was fifth, eighth and fourth respectively


01 Fernando Alonso 164
02 Mark Webber 124
03 Sebastian Vettel 122
04 Lewis Hamilton 117
05 Kimi Räikkönen 116
06 Nico Rosberg 77
07 Jenson Button 76
08 Romain Grosjean 76
09 Sergio Perez 47
10 Kamui Kobayashi 33

CONSTRUCTOR STANDINGS
01 Red Bull Racing-Renault 246
02 McLaren-Mercedes 193
03 Lotus-Renault 192
04 Ferrari 189
05 Mercedes 106
06 Sauber-Ferrari 80
07 Williams-Renault 53
08 Force India-Mercedes 46

so far the most boring race of the season.

Have to agree......4 week break now

How you doing mate? Stormers very disappointing yesterday:(

Sharks just looked bigger and stronger on the day. Stormers game getting stale defence defence defence and hope that the opposition make mistakes. They have missed Burger and Fourie this season.

Felt that they were away for a year. Race 300 for Schumacher, but I don't think that Mercedes has the speed of the Red Bull's, McClaren or Ferrari. Hoping for Alonso but will be very happy if Schumi could make the top 3.

2012 FORMULA 1 SHELL BELGIAN GRAND PRIX
Provisional Results
No Driver Team Grid
3 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1
14 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 2
9 Kimi Räikkönen Lotus-Renault 3
15 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 4
5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 5
18 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Renault 6
4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 7
10 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 8
11 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 9
1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 10
12 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 11
2 Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 12
7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 13
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 14
17 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Ferrari 15
16 Daniel Ricciardo STR-Ferrari 16
19 Bruno Senna Williams-Renault 17
20 Heikki Kovalainen Caterham-Renault 18
21 Vitaly Petrov Caterham-Renault 19
24 Timo Glock Marussia-Cosworth 20
22 Pedro de la Rosa HRT-Cosworth 21
25 Charles Pic Marussia-Cosworth 22
8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 23
23 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 24

Jenson Button was almost in a class of his own in qualifying at Spa on Saturday afternoon, lapping his McLaren in 1m 47.686s and then improving that to 1m 47.573s to secure pole position

Going to be very exciting. A track that's very demanding reason being that the cars run flat-out 70% of the lap. I think the teams that manages their tyres the best will do well.

Well done Jenson. Glad to see that the mad Frenchman (Maljan alias Grosjean )got a penalty of a one race ban.....can't believe that Hamilton got off scott free.

Nasty crash ......

Lewis Hamilton going to Mercedes replacing Michael Schumacher and the 22 year old sensation Sergio Perez will replace Hamilton at Mclaren.