Poll: Official 2025 Belgian Grand Prix Race Thread - Spa-Franchorchamps - Race 13/24

Rate the ON race out of ten

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Mr Jack said:
Ah, fair enough: I hadn't realised they'd burned through their allocation of engines already. A lot of season to go!
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They don't have to have used* their allocations already, they can introduce extra components whenever they want to, so doing it somewhere like this where you've had a crap qualifying just makes sense and lessens the risk you'll have to compromise another race later in the season. Hence them taking one of everything whilst it effectively doesn't matter.

That said, not sure if/how it pans out with the next weekend if they don't actually start a race today...

*Edit - more specifically they don't have to have "used them up" - they may have needed to run their starting allocations at least once, not sure without checking. They certainly won't have "burned through" their standard allocations yet anyway.
 
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In the f3 formation lap behind the safety car, drivers collided with each other. So probably a good idea to wait for the next storm to go over.
 
Utterly pointless. Why even bother with that?

Wet tyres are brought to every race and yet never used. I appreciate the safety element - but what's the point in even bringing wet tyres if you aren't going to let them use them in this weather? Just mandate a wet tyre start, run the race and see how it goes.
 
UTmaniac said:
In conditions like this, send the cars out to do laps, staying ~6* seconds apart with full wet tyres on to try and clear most surface water. Then allow teams to refuel cars to race?

* Or however long to equally spread them around the track as if going VSC speed.
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Could even go further with this and instruct alternating cars to keep to different track lines (left, middle, right), to try and make more of damp track race able.
 
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