Key points from the chart
- The chart ranks every lap of the 2024 Belgian Grand Prix against every other lap in the race, excluding pit stop laps. Each small bar is one lap, and the further right it sits the faster it was.
- Drivers are listed from fastest to slowest by their single best lap, not by finishing position.
- Sergio Pérez has the best lap, 104.701 seconds, which F1’s official timing shows he set on the last lap, lap 44 [1].
- Zhou Guanyu has only two bars, both among the slowest laps. He retired early with a hydraulics failure, and his best lap of 112.099 seconds came on lap 2 [1][2].
- George Russell crossed the line first but was disqualified for an underweight car. His laps are still on the chart, 10th by best lap [2].
The F1 lap ranking chart in text
The graphic is a screenshot of a StatsPrism page headed F1: Lap Rankings Analysis, with Year set to 2024 and Race set to 14BEL (round 14, Belgium). The chart title is F1 Driver Lap Performance Ranking, 2024 14BEL.
Description printed on the page: “This graph shows how each driver’s lap times ranked throughout the race, excluding pit stop laps. Drivers are listed from top to bottom, fastest to slowest based on their best lap time. Each bar represents one lap. The position of the bar shows how that lap ranked among all laps in the race. The y-axis shows the best lap time for each driver. The x-axis shows the lap rank, with the fastest laps on the right.”
The horizontal axis, labelled Lap Rank (faster), is marked 700, 600, 500, 400, 300, 200 and 100 from left to right, so the fastest lap in the race sits at the right edge. Bars are coloured by team. The drivers and best laps printed on the left and right of the chart are below, with team, time in minutes and the lap number added from F1’s official fastest laps table [1].
| Order on chart | Code | Driver | Team | Best lap on chart (seconds) | Same time in minutes | Lap it was set (F1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PER | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 104.701s | 1:44.701 | 44 |
| 2 | NOR | Lando Norris | McLaren | 105.563s | 1:45.563 | 31 |
| 3 | PIA | Oscar Piastri | McLaren | 105.840s | 1:45.840 | 32 |
| 4 | VER | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 106.128s | 1:46.128 | 32 |
| 5 | SAI | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 106.364s | 1:46.364 | 44 |
| 6 | HAM | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 106.653s | 1:46.653 | 33 |
| 7 | OCO | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 106.957s | 1:46.957 | 43 |
| 8 | LEC | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 107.013s | 1:47.013 | 33 |
| 9 | BOT | Valtteri Bottas | Kick Sauber | 107.019s | 1:47.019 | 37 |
| 10 | RUS | George Russell | Mercedes | 107.113s | 1:47.113 | 44 |
| 11 | GAS | Pierre Gasly | Alpine | 107.418s | 1:47.418 | 30 |
| 12 | RIC | Daniel Ricciardo | RB | 107.435s | 1:47.435 | 37 |
| 13 | SAR | Logan Sargeant | Williams | 107.490s | 1:47.490 | 43 |
| 14 | MAG | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 107.848s | 1:47.848 | 44 |
| 15 | TSU | Yuki Tsunoda | RB | 107.969s | 1:47.969 | 44 |
| 16 | ALB | Alexander Albon | Williams | 107.996s | 1:47.996 | 44 |
| 17 | ALO | Fernando Alonso | Aston Martin | 108.051s | 1:48.051 | 42 |
| 18 | STR | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 108.105s | 1:48.105 | 44 |
| 19 | HUL | Nico Hulkenberg | Haas | 108.954s | 1:48.954 | 44 |
| 20 | ZHO | Zhou Guanyu | Kick Sauber | 112.099s | 1:52.099 | 2 |
Reading the lap rankings
The order on the chart matches the official fastest laps table for the race exactly, to the thousandth of a second [1]. What the chart adds is the spread of every other lap. A driver with a tight cluster of bars at the right has many fast laps. A driver with bars spread across the chart had very different pace at different stages of the race.
Max Verstappen’s bars, for example, sit in a thick block close to the right edge, while many midfield drivers have most of their laps in the left half of the chart. Several drivers show two separate groups of bars, one slower and one faster. The chart does not say why, but in a race with pit stops for fresh tyres and a car that gets lighter as fuel burns, the pace of different stints can differ.
Best lap and finishing order are different things. Lewis Hamilton won the race after Russell’s disqualification, with Oscar Piastri second and Charles Leclerc third [2], yet on this chart Hamilton is sixth, Leclerc eighth and Pérez, who finished seventh, is first [2].
About the 2024 Belgian Grand Prix
The race was held on 28 July 2024 at Spa-Francorchamps and run for 44 laps [2]. Russell, who started fifth, ran a one-stop strategy and crossed the line first, but his car was 1.5 kg under the 798 kg minimum weight and he was disqualified. Hamilton’s win was the 105th of his career. Verstappen finished fourth and Lando Norris fifth [2].
Notes on this infographic
- No source line. The screenshot names no data source. The best lap times match F1’s official fastest laps table for the race [1].
- Disqualified driver included. Russell’s laps are shown even though he was removed from the results [2].
- No team key. Bars use team colours, but the chart does not label them. The team names in the table come from F1’s results [1].
- Creator site offline. The StatsPrism logo appears on the screenshot, but the StatsPrism website did not load when we checked, so we cannot link to the original page.
Questions about F1 laps
How many laps are in an F1 race?
It depends on the circuit. The 2024 Belgian Grand Prix shown here was run over 44 laps of Spa-Francorchamps [2].
Sources
- Formula 1, Belgian Grand Prix 2024, Fastest Laps.
- Wikipedia, 2024 Belgian Grand Prix.
Last reviewed 30 October 2026