FACTS AND STATS: Piastri clocks up most wins by an Australian in a season
The Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps produced not only a memorable race, but also a treasure trove of top trivia to dive into.
Other Australians have taken more career victories and some have secured world titles, but none can claim more wins in a single season than Oscar Piastri, after the McLaren driver triumphed at Spa-Francorchamps. Want more fascinating figures from Belgium? Look no further. Here’s our round-up...
• Piastri extended his lead in the Drivers’ Championship in both the Sprint and the Grand Prix this weekend.
• Piastri’s 31-race scoring streak is the longest by any driver in F1 history other than Max Verstappen or Lewis Hamilton.
• Today’s was Piastri’s sixth Grand Prix victory of the season, the most by an Australian in any season in F1 history.
• It was McLaren’s 13th win Grand Prix win at Spa-Francorchamps, their first since Jenson Button in 2012.
• With Lando Norris second, it was McLaren’s sixth one-two finish of the season – their most since Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna scored 10 in 1988.
• It was Norris’ first career top-four finish in a Grand Prix at Spa.
• Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished third at Spa for the third consecutive season.
• Only Piastri (11) and Norris (11) have more podium finishes this season than Leclerc (five).
Charles Leclerc just can't kick that podium habit
• Red Bull’s Max Verstappen finished fourth at Spa for the second consecutive season.
• Verstappen has only scored one podium finish in the last six Grands Prix (he was second in Canada).
• Mercedes’ George Russell took P5 and does not have a top-four finish since winning in Canada.
• Alex Albon came home in P6 for Williams, his fourth top-six finish of the season.
• That was Williams’ best result in a full length Belgian Grand Prix for 10 years (after Felipe Massa took P6 in 2015).
• Lewis Hamilton finished in P7 for Ferrari, having started from the pit lane.
• Liam Lawson was P8 for Racing Bulls – his second top-eight finish in the last 3 Grands Prix.
• Kick Sauber’s Gabriel Bortoleto took P9 for his second career points finish.
• That was Sauber’s first points at Spa since 2018 with Marcus Ericsson.
P9 marked another strong result for Kick Sauber rookie Gabriel Bortoleto
• Alpine’s Pierre Gasly’s P10 was his second consecutive points finish driving for the last-placed team.
• At Haas, Oliver Bearman finished 11th for the fourth consecutive race, tying the longest streak of finishes in the same position other than first place.
• P12 for Kick Sauber was Nico Hulkenberg’s best result at Spa since 2019.
• After his P16 for Mercedes, Kimi Antonelli has only one points finish in the last seven Grands Prix (P3 in Canada).
• It was the second race of the season – after Japan – in which every driver was a classified finisher.
