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The start🔴 of Formula 1's third triple-header of 2020 is upon us. 

The le꧂gendary Spa-Francorchamps plays host to this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.

Eau Rouge, Pouhon, Blanchi🌠mont - Spa-Francorchamps consists of some of the sport’s iconic corners.

Lewis Hamilto൩n heads to Belgi⛄um top of the drivers’ championship, 37 points clear of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in second.

Valtteri Bottas&n🐬bsp;is in third, on the back of ꦕa disappointing run of three races for the Finn - who celebrated his 31st birthday on Friday.

What happened last time out?

It was a comfortable after꧅noon for the reigning world champion at the Circuit de ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚBarcelona-Catalunya just under two weeks ago.

Hamilton dominated proceedings in Spain from pole position as he stormed to his fourth victory of the cam꧂paign.

The Mercedes driver had no threat from behind after making 🌳a good start from pole.

Verstappen benefitted from a slow-starting Bottas t🔴o finish second behind Hamilton yet again, with the second Mercedes eventually finishing a distant third.

The Racing Points enjoyed another strong outing - P4 for Stroll; 🦩P5 for Perez.

Carlos S🅠ainz was sixth at his home race, jus🍌t ahead of Sebastian Vettel in seventh.

Alexander Albon, ꦉ;Pierre Gasly and Lando Norris rounded out thℱe top ten.

What to expect from this weekend?

Long straights, 𓃲high-speed corners - Spa is 𝓀expected to favour Mercedes considerably.

Racing Point and🤪 Renault tend to go well at low downforce circuits so Red Bull will have to keep an eye on those two teams.

Ferrari typically struggles when it comes to straight-line speed so expect Vettel and Charles Leclerc to struggle to get into Q3 come qualify🥂ing.

Conditions are expected to be very cool but dry across Friday and Saturday, although there is some rain forecast on🐭 Su🍬nday.

Pir🍰elli has nominated the C2, C3 a𝐆nd C4 compound tyres for this race - as it did for the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix at Silverstone.