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Max Verstappen wins the Belgian GP making it 8 in a row for Dutch driver and an unprecedented 13 consecutive race wins for Red Bull.
Further down the grid a poor weekend for teammate Sergio Perez leaves his future with the Austrian outfit in doubt.
Sorry I should have lead with a spoiler warning.
Edit: 0/3, gg boys
I'm getting so bored with max winning, I'm genuinely thinking about cancelling my f1 subscription and watching indycar instead.
Disregard Max and we have the closest season in a while.
I feel like we all sold our souls for the championship battle excitement of 2021 and now we're just waiting for 2026.
I’m just watching formula 1.1 and it’s pretty good. Pretend max doesn’t exist and it’s been a great season
Hopefully RIC will get through the start safely this time, will be interesting to see how he does in the long race.
Ultimately the car was just too slow - he wasn't getting finessed in turns he was getting beat in the straights
Sadly true, but one might hope
Besides the top 5, the rest of the grid was really close today. I was often confused about how drivers emerged at the back from the midfield after pit stops.
Why did Sainz stay out for so long, with damage that was obviously going to send him to the back for no points? Is there some penalty for retiring in the first half of a race?
No idea why tbh. No rules he couldn't have been retired earlier.
They were probably hoping for a rain red flag to repair the damage. That gamble didn’t work out
Maybe data gathering, for what it's worth
McLaren not looking good today and not having good luck either.
Their gamble on high downforce for a wet race unfortunately hasn't paid off. If it suddenly starts bucketing it down then Lando can still make a solid comeback if they play the strategy right
It might pay off. Let’s see what happens in 15 mins:
They didn't gamble at all. They don't have a slim wing upgrade, so if they used one, it would be too inefficient in terms of drag/downforce ratio. They have an upgrade planned for Monza obviously.
Oh interesting, appreciate the info. I thought even their Silverstone wing was less extreme than this one? Unless they just thought that was too inefficient to even consider
OCO will balls of steel there!
That sucks for Piastri to go out, especially after doing so well during rest of the weekend.
ALB looking very good. Gained 7 places so far.
So what do we reckon? I'm going for Max P3 by the end of the Kemmel straight and race lead by lap 3 if it's dry.
Lewis should pit toward the end and go for fastest lap.
The best circuit of the year is here!!!!
The bulls are fighting each other today. Will they be mad enough to take each other out?
All things being equal they should just be exchanging first place repeatedly for the rest of the race, with the second place person having DRS all the time. But I’m sure that won’t happen. How does Verstappen do it?!
No idea buddy. The man is a machine.
Max for Driver of the Day?
The strategies in this race are going to be fantastic. Please God let Ferrari get it right for once.
Honestly very interesting grid, wouldn't immediately say Max will 100% win this one as well. Depending on how wide everyone is at the start and how incident free it is as well. Although the raw speed of that redbull might prove me wrong.
Having not watched any F1 news since the end of the sprint yesterday, I was surprised to hear of the hole in Checo’s side pods after the Hamilton incident. Searching for news on Google is just giving me tons of regurgitated clickbait with no good pictures. Anyone know where I can see good pictures/analysis of it?
Ferrari trains at present.
Some great passes this race.
Is there any prediction for rain?
Perez being 9 seconds behind Max despite everything shows how slow he is relatively.
Tsunoda looking good for some points, DRic struggling at the back. Ma's isn't in the lead after 3 laps, which is nice!