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

Rate the ON race out of ten

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Jono8 said:
The commentators wound me up too trying to make it sound Like Norris was going to catch Piastri. No chance.
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God that was ridiculous. Gap was 4.5 seconds and he’s barely been catching 0.5secs a lap. With 4 laps left they’re convinced he’s going to catch him and fight. lolwut :confused:
Greboth said:
Why the dislike for Piastri? Each to their own but IMO he comes across better in interviews than Norris.
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I can’t dislike Piastri (in fact I think he’s great) but obviously I’d prefer Lando to win because he’s British. I’m not even terribly patriotic but it makes sense to root for a British driver.
 
Scam said:
God that was ridiculous. Gap was 4.5 seconds and he’s barely been catching 0.5secs a lap. With 4 laps left they’re convinced he’s going to catch him and fight. lolwut :confused:

I can’t dislike Piastri (in fact I think he’s great) but obviously I’d prefer Lando to win because he’s British. I’m not even terribly patriotic but it makes sense to root for a British driver.
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That's just to keep casuals tuned in, gotta accept the bs talk.
 
Voted 3/10. Race started way too late, taking pretty much any jeopardy out of a wet race. Fantastic move by Piastri to take the lead, and great to see Lewis climbing up the order, but other than that, very much a procession. At least if the deg on the Medium tyres were higher it might have led to an interesting finale.
 
I too voted a 3/10. Probably was being a bit harsh and the race was more a 5/10 affair. It was fun watching Lewis carve through in the wet and there were a few other bits of entertainment, but I docked it a point for the bungled start sequence - should have started earlier and they kept the SC out way too long - and another for the utter borefest of a Sprint Race.

And answering my own question from earlier about what happened to Yuki: apparently the team bungled the call to pit him, he was supposed to double stack after Max, but they called him in too late and he'd already passed the pit entry and so had to do another lap causing him to lose a bunch of places.
 
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I voted 3 as soon as the pole was up post race, the points I added from 0 were for Hamilton actually doing some overtaking, and for the single overtake by Piastri.

F1 is/has become a joke, rolling starts on a track that is drying out rapidly, WTF? Utter waste of time, I enjoyed vacuuming the car more that watching the race. As for the commentators, David Croft needs to get a job serving food in McDonalds or something, maybe he can make that sound interesting while getting it all wrong, my only though is he is trying to be like the legend Murray Walker, just with a **** accent/voice.
 
I can’t imagine being a spectator for that event, costs a fortune, got soaked and then can’t get out of the car park.
 
How many on-track overtakes did Hamilton actually make, and what cars were they? From memory he was 13th when he pit for slicks?
I just don't understand the extreme praise he was getting yesterday, when his car was so massively out of position.

His team mate finished third. Hamilton should never have been that far down the grid in this car.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
How many on-track overtakes did Hamilton actually make, and what cars were they? From memory he was 13th when he pit for slicks?
I just don't understand the extreme praise he was getting yesterday, when his car was so massively out of position.
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More than anyone else. It's not like other drivers in faster cars were carving through the field either.

His team mate finished third. Hamilton should never have been that far down the grid in this car.
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No, he shouldn't -- that track limits error in quali cost him dear. But we usually credit drivers for mounting good recovery drives and Lewis certainly managed that. Carved through the field, without DRS, in the wet at a track where its difficult to pass and absolutely nailed the timing on the tyre switchover to slicks.
 
Jono8 said:
Yeh. Totally agree with Max's assessment on this. Like he said, if they are going to do this, then why not just decide to not race in the wet at all.
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Ironic given RBR / Max benefitted from the 2021 debacle and one might argue that was the moment that gave them what turned out to be a crucial 8 points gain on Mercedes / Lewis for the 2021 WDC. If one wished to be argumentive of course!

I personally think it has more to do with safety in the light of recent fatalities at the track, the most recent of which was in wet conditions.

I know, Motorsport is dangerous etc etc. But it's dangerous enough as it is without being blase about the risks of rain, poor visibility and standing water on a track like Spa, or any other track for that matter.

Then throw in cost caps and you can see why teams are also reticent to go racing in such conditions.
 
I missed it live this weekend and couldn't get F1TV to work, so only had the 8 min highlights on YouTube.
Was pretty gutted to miss it, but was actually glad I did after watching the highlights! We may as well skip the track in future seasons! FIA are far too over cautious...
 
regarding the rolling start, i do agree in this case it was correct. If one side of the grid is significantly wetter than the other then no driver will want to be on that side as it gives the other side an advantage. they should have started the race a lot earlier without a rolling start but the spray was too bad according to the drivers, the wets would not have made a difference there and the inters were perfectly capable of handling the amount of standing water which is why no-one used them.
 
AlphariusOmegan said:
regarding the rolling start, i do agree in this case it was correct. If one side of the grid is significantly wetter than the other then no driver will want to be on that side as it gives the other side an advantage. they should have started the race a lot earlier without a rolling start but the spray was too bad according to the drivers, the wets would not have made a difference there and the inters were perfectly capable of handling the amount of standing water which is why no-one used them.
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I agree actually, I think a rolling start was appropriate, but I don't see why they (1) needed to wait so long to start at all and (2) needed to run the SC for so long when they did. The track was clearly fit for racing from the start, they could have had a rolling start at the end of the formation lap.
 
I voted 5.

Points off for the ridiculous delay getting going, for the God awful Sky commentary and for this generation of car being too long and too heavy to effectively race anywhere.

But I'd still rather watch a procession at Spa or Monaco than an equally processional affair at some crappy modern track in ****-holes like Saudi Arabia, or Abu Dhabi, or the USA.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
I just don't understand the extreme praise he was getting yesterday, when his car was so massively out of position.
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As I said before. On another day you’d be stating how rain is the great equaliser and shows up the truly great drivers…

I gave it a 5. I think the rolling start was fairer than a standing start with some on a noticeably wetter side of the grid.

In short, it was a good day for Ferrari with both Hamilton’s recovery and Charles holding off Max for literally the whole race.
 
Scam said:
Charles holding off Max for literally the whole race.
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No idea how he did it after his mistake at T1 as well, thought that was done and dusted when Max pulled alongside.

It's a big shame for the race that it didn't start 1h or 30 minutes before it actually did. We ended up with 4 laps behind the safety car, then 7 laps of racing around in a drying track - then 30 odd laps with no overtaking.
 
t2na said:
No idea how he did it after his mistake at T1 as well, thought that was done and dusted when Max pulled alongside.

It's a big shame for the race that it didn't start 1h or 30 minutes before it actually did. We ended up with 4 laps behind the safety car, then 7 laps of racing around in a drying track - then 30 odd laps with no overtaking.
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Cars had higher downforce in prep for a wet race, which the FIA ruined, so the overtake delta was much higher. I think Max was faster and would've been closer to the McLarens but probably not by much.
 
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