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Lewis Hamilton’s 14th career win was only the second time he’d led every lap of an F1 race.

But Ferrari’s feat of having both their cars classified in every race this year came to an end when Fernando Alonso crashed out.

Read on for the stats and facts from the Belgian Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton scored his third win of the year and 14th of his career. He’s now won as many races as Jack Brabham, Graham Hill and Emerson Fittipaldi.

Hamilton led every lap of the race, something he had only done once before in F1, at the Hungaroring in 2007.

Belgian Grand Prix in pictures

No team other than McLaren or Ferrari have won the Belgian Grand Prix since Jordan scored a one-two in 1998. This year saw McLaren’s first win at the track since 2005, though of course they won “on the road” with Hamilton in 2008.

The McLaren driver also set his third fastest lap of the year. A prize is given to the driver with the most at the end of the season, and Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel are currently tied for first with three each. It was the sixth fastest lap of Hamilton’s career.

Red Bull started from pole position for the 12th time in 13 races. It was the sixth of Mark Webber’s career, giving him as many as countryman Alan Jones plus Fittipaldi, Phil Hill, Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Carlos Reutemann and Ralf Schumacher.

For the first time this year one of the Ferraris failed to be classified at the end of the race (Alonso stopped before the end of the Malaysian Grand Prix but had already completed 90% of the race distance). The only driver to have finished every race this year is Felipe Massa.

Rubens Barrichello recorded his 300th Grand Prix start – more stats on that later this week. Unfortunately he failed to complete a single lap of this landmark race.

Jaime Alguersuari started from a career-best 11th, having been promoted from 13th after both Mercedes drivers were given penalties. Michael Schumacher started from the second-worst grid position of his career, 21st.

See the updated post-race statistics in full here: F1 2010 statistics

Podiums

Racing laps completed

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2010 Belgian Grand Prix

• Technical review: Belgian Grand Prix
• From the stands: Carol Treurnicht watches the Belgian GP at Spa
• Liuzzi: “I’d have passed Alguersuari easily”
• Button denies braking early in Vettel crash
• Hamilton “wasn’t pushing” when he went off
• 2010 Belgian Grand Prix – the complete F1 Fanatic race weekend review
• Who was the best driver of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend?
• Damage limitation for Webber – but not Vettel (Red Bull race review)
• Ferrari’s practice pace disappears on Sunday (Ferrari race review)
• Renault’s latest upgrade gives Kubica a shot at victory (Renault race review)

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