Eight the perfect number at Spa

It had never happened before in the 75 years of the Formula 1 Drivers' World Championship. On the podium of the 70th edition of the Belgian Grand Prix were three drivers, who, with more than one victory apiece, were on the same number of wins, eight in this case.

At Spa on Sunday, we had winner Oscar Piastri, second placed Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc in third. The Australian's sixth win of the season was also the eighth of his career, a number his team-mate Norris achieved in the previous round at Silverstone, while for the Ferrari driver, win number eight came in Austin last year.

There are more coincidences. In Spa, this trio took the chequered flag waved by Belgium's most famous racer, Jacky Ickx, who also won eight times, and who turned 80 on 1st January this year. 
Prior to this, there had been one occasion when drivers sharing the podium had one win each. It happened in the 2008 Italian Grand Prix.

That year, on 14 September, Sebastian Vettel took one of the most incredible wins ever, at the wheel of a Toro Rosso, the team formerly known as Minardi. At the time of this maiden victory, the first of 53, the 21 year old German was the youngest ever driver to be first across the line in Formula 1. Alongside him that day was the Finn Heikki Kovalainen who had won in Hungary and the Pole Robert Kubica, whose stood on the top step of the podium in Canada. Unfortunately for them, these two never repeated that feat.