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2023 Formula One World Championship
2023 Belgian Grand Prix
Round 12
Belgium Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
Stavelot, Belgium
Sunday, 30 July 2023
Fernando Alonso will be hoping to become the first Spanish driver to win the
Belgian Grand Prix and add it to his long list of accomplishments.
Most recent race
The Alfa Romeo driver missed out on a podium spot at the Hungarian Grand Prix on July 23 as he finished ninth and his 33rd victory in the sport remains elusive.
Alonso started the race in the eighth grid and he finished ninth which saw him collect just two points as his hopes of winning the Formula One world championship took a knock.
Formula One title ambitions
The two-time Formula One world champion is still placed third on the World Drivers' Championship standings having accumulated 139 points from 11 races.
Alonso is 32 points and 142 points behind the Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT duo of Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen respectively.
Why Alonso could win the 2023 Belgian MotoGP
The accomplished racing driver came close to winning the Belgian Grand Prix in 2013 when he finished second with Sebastian Vettel winning the race.
Having finished second at this year's Monaco Grand Prix and Canadian Grand Prix, Alonso will be keen to record his first win of the season at the Span.
What did he say?
"I had a bit of a lonely race. We didn't have much pace to attack the cars in front," Alonso said after the 2023 Hungarian Grand Prix.
"We didn't have big rivals in the cars behind either, and I tried to go as hard as I could, but we lacked those three or four tenths of a second to put George (Russell) and Carlos (Sainz) in front in trouble.
"Yes, it will be complicated (in Spa). Now I think we need the more free practices the better, to try something on the car, which we have doubts in some parts, if it works or not, and the Sprint is not going to give it to us," he continued.
"This is because we go directly to the time trial on Friday, but well it's the same for everyone, it rains Spa. So we have to be ready for anything."
2022 Belgian Grand Prix results
Winner: Max Verstappen - Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Runner-Up: Sergio Perez - Red Bull Racing-RBPT
Third-Place: Carlos Sainz Jr - Ferrari
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