All four drivers who failed to set times within 107 percent of the fastest lap in Q1 at Spa have been given dispensation to start the Belgian Grand Prix.
Virgin's Jerome D'Ambrosio and HRT duo Tonio Liuzzi and Daniel Ricciardo were all outside the 2m10.339s cut-off with their best times, while Michael Schumacher did not manage a single flying lap after his Mercedes shed its right rear wheel and crashed on his out-lap. But the stewards ruled that all four could take part in the grand prix, giving dispensation on the grounds that they had been quick enough both in free practice at Spa and consistently so during the season, and because of the changeable weather conditions.
D'Ambrosio will actually be elevated to 20th on the grid due to Williams driver Pastor Maldonado's five-place grid penalty for his clash with Lewis Hamilton in Q2.