Enjoyed the race a lot! Just watching them blast around Spa takes me back to being 7/8 years old and watching races in the early/mid 90s where you'd have a huge field spread, no idea who was winning, a bunch of cars smoking and leaking oil everywhere but it was always such an amazing watch because of the track.
A real shame for Russell, I wonder if it had anything to do with them changing / removing the upgrade package after Friday's practice and then the wet sessions on Saturday meaning they missed something? Although you'd expect it on both cars, not just the one. The only thing I found weird about the actual race with Russell/Hamilton was that they took until 4 laps before the end to tell Hamilton that Russell wasn't pitting again.
Mega from Piastri, he's really quickly becoming a favourite of mine. I love how he seems to have such an insanely cool head on his shoulders and his zero bs radio messages are lovely, it's Kimi-esque at times.
I'd say a bit of a nightmare for both Perez and Norris. For me, Norris seems to be one of the worst starters in F1 since Webber. Webber was king of qualifying P2/P3 and ending up P5 by the end of lap 1 - so hopefully Norris can figure it out, otherwise he's going to have an uphill struggle at every race.
Perez is a little embarrassing at this point, especially with the '*** these guys' comment he made post qualifying. 6 tenths behind Max in qualifying, then holds Max up for 5 laps when Russell is between them - then finishes last of the top cars despite starting second. No idea who they should replace him with, maybe Danny Ric just to have someone go hell for leather for the next 6 months? And I can't imagine Perez would want a swap to Toro Rosso either so does he just sit out?