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Belgium Results

Wtcbu takes ja606's first victory of 2015.
Cliptheapex extend their lead in the league to 51 points over f1world, with not606 another point further back.
Sco and stairs place sixth and seventh respectively for sportsbabble.

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Pos user         forum   zdkf1 points  forum points
1  wtcbu         ja606        37            25
2  jambo         cliptheapex  36            18
3  bls           not606       35            15
4  pob           f1technical  35            12
5  mach          grandprix    35            10
6  sco           sportsbabble 34             8
7  stairs        sportsbabble 33             6
8  sardaor       cliptheapex  32             4
9  go_cellino_go ja606        32             2
10 pdk           f1world      32             1

scores for also rans from sportsbabble:

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League table
Pos_Forum__________Points
1___cliptheapex_____227
2___f1world_________176
3___not606__________175
4___ja606___________155
5___grandprix_______129
6___sportsbabble_____90
7___garagistasf1_____60
8___f1technical______51
9___f1onboard________31
10__v2_______________17


Individual championship
Not606's jb still leads the way on 452 points.
Bls, also from not606, remains second on 447 points.
Teabagyokel from cliptheapex stays in third place on 435 points.
The best player from sportsbabble is sco in 16th place on 376 points.


Quali trophy
A difficult race for pole time predictions: only cliptheapex's sardaor got within 0.25% for 2 points this race; four others got within 1% for 1 point.
Here's the overall top 10:

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pos user        forum    points
1  pob          various    10
2  redfrog      f1world    10
3  bls          not606      9
4  pdk          f1world     9
5  greenlantern cliptheapex 9
6  teabagyokel  cliptheapex 8
7  sardaor      cliptheapex 8
8  chelseamf    ja606       8
9  jb           not606      8
10 andykarter   f1world     7

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Race recap:
Back to normal form with an easy one-two for Mercedes: Hamilton winning after Rosberg had a bad start.
Grosjean took the final spot on the podium for Lotus, which will be important for the team as their financial troubles continue while awaiting a possible takeover by Renault.
Ferrari's Vettel was running in third place until his tyre exploded with less than two laps to go. He was naturally unimpressed by this and took his wrath out on the tyre supplier Pirelli in the postrace interviews.
Kvyat raced well for Red Bull to fourth, and Perez in the Force India continued their good pace since introducing their b-spec car to take fifth.
Massa was sixth for Williams, Raikkonen seventh for Ferrari.
Verstappen placed eighth for Toro Rosso after some more great overtaking manoeuvres that belie his young age:

Bottas was perhaps lucky to claim ninth for Williams, the stewards only penalising him with a drive through penalty for using an illegal combination of tyres. Ericsson took the final point for Sauber in tenth ahead of his teammate Nasr.
The McLarens of Alonso and Button were painfully slow on a "power" track, the horsepower deficit of their Honda engine being abundantly clear.