Poll: Official 2024 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread - Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps - Race 14/24

[Jono8]

Honestly? Strategy wise etc, that really ******* me off after the McLaren stuff from last race.

 

[Feek]

It’s confirmed. George is disqualified.

 

[Jono8]

It’s confirmed. George is disqualified.

Good.

 

[SpartaP]

Massive high to a massive low, feel for George.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Oopsie

 

[Mesai]

That's a shame since he made the win possible pushing for the 1-stop.

 

[Usel]

Document 44......

 

[Scam]

Man that sucks What about Lewis?

 

[Feek]

I’ve edited the poll to allow people to change their votes for a while.

 

[Feek]

Man that sucks What about Lewis?

Lewis wasn’t under investigation for being underweight. He’s the race winner.

 

[Scam]

Lewis wasn’t under investigation for being underweight. He’s the race winner.

Oh ok, I was skim reading catching up and thought they both were. Oh well, hollow win I guess.

Yeah wouldn’t like to be in George’s shoes Especially after he really made that victory himself.

 

[Greboth]

A bit of a shame as it was masterfully driven to get the win but rules are rules.

 

[SpartaP]

So this has nothing to do with fuel load at the end of the race? Is the car weighed post race with no fuel?

 

[Jono8]

A bit of a shame as it was masterfully driven to get the win but rules are rules.

How was it "masterfully driven" ?

On what metric are you basing that on? It's quite clear that everyone else just flubbed the strategy.

Or, of he was that much underweight, that is likely why he won anyway.

 

[Jono8]

Oh well, hollow win I guess.

Exactly as hollow as Piastri's last race then.

 

[Feek]

So this has nothing to do with fuel load at the end of the race? Is the car weighed post race with no fuel?

Yes. Fuel doesn’t count towards the final weight.

 

[SS-89]

So this has nothing to do with fuel load at the end of the race? Is the car weighed post race with no fuel?

His car was underweight, they don't count fuel for minimum weight so somebody has cocked up in the mercedes garage.

It's 0.15 seconds a lap effectively if he was 1.5kg underweight, that's not a small amount over race distance (around 7 seconds) and doesn't account for the impact on tyre deg either. It's a slam dunk disqualification and all the teams know that. Feel for him but the rules are the rules and probably played a part in him being able to make the 1 stop work anyway.

 

[SpartaP]

'Genuine error by the team'

Sorry if this has already been posted.

 

[cainer]

Document 44......

Gotta find that funny lol, well, unless your name is George Russell

 

[GravyMonster]

Gutted for George. Perez lucky to still be P7 in the WDC. I can't see how they can continue with him being the deadweight now.