2015 Belgian Grand Prix
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| Race 11 of 19 in the 2015 Formula One season | |||
Layout of the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
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| Date | 23 August 2015 | ||
| Official name | 2015 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 | 43 laps, 301.048 km (187.063 mi) | ||
| Scheduled Distance | 44 laps, 308.052 km (191.415 mi) | ||
| Weather | Cloudy 23 °C (73 °F) air temperature 33–37 °C (91–99 °F) track temperature 3.5 m/s (11 ft/s) wind from the northwest |
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| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Mercedes | ||
| Time | 1:47.197 | ||
| Fastest lap | |||
| Driver |
 Nico Rosberg
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Mercedes | |
| Time | 1:52.416 on lap 34 | ||
| Podium | |||
| First | Mercedes | ||
| Second | Mercedes | ||
| Third | Lotus-Mercedes | ||
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The 2015 Belgian Grand Prix (formally the 2015 Formula 1 Shell Belgian Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 23 August 2015 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Spa, Belgium. It was the eleventh round of the 2015 Formula One season, and the 71st Belgian Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes entered the event as the overall Drivers' Championship leader, 21 points ahead of his teammate Nico Rosberg and 42 points ahead of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. Mercedes led the Constructors' Championship by 147 points over Ferrari, while Williams entered the event in third, a further 85 points adrift. Having won the 2014 edition, Daniel Ricciardo was the defending race winner.
Lewis Hamilton won the race for Mercedes, extending his championship lead over Rosberg, who finished second, to 28 points. Romain Grosjean and Lotus secured a podium finish for the first time since the 2013 United States Grand Prix, benefitting from a controversial tyre failure on Sebastian Vettel's Ferrari late in the race.
The race marked Scuderia Ferrari's 900th Grand Prix entry, while McLaren was handed a record 105-place grid penalty for a multitude of changes to their Honda power units.
Pirelli, Formula One's sole tyre supplier since 2011, supplied the ten teams with four compounds of tyres for the event. The two dry selections were the white-banded medium compound as the "prime" tyre, while the yellow-banded soft compound was provided as the softer "option" choice. The green-banded intermediate weather tyre and the blue-banded full wet compounds were brought to all events. As a consequence of Konstantin Tereshchenko's crash in a GP3 Series race in 2014, new asphalt was laid down on the inside of the final corner, replacing the patch of grass that was there before. In addition, a new kerb was added at the exit of the famous Eau Rouge corner, on the apex of turn four. The kerb was however removed on Saturday after the FIA discussed the matter with the drivers. At turn one, the La Source hairpin, the exit kerb was shortened to make it easier to rejoin the track in the event of a driver running wide.
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