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ROUND 13: ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ช Belgium


FORMULA 1 MOร‹T & CHANDON BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2025


Circuit stats


  • First Grand Prix: 1950
  • Number of laps: 44
  • Circuit Length: 7.004 km
  • Race Distance: 308.052 km
  • Lap record: 1:44.701 Sergio Perez (2024)
  • 2024 winner: George Russel

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[โ€“] Thorry84 1 points 20 hours ago

This race was boooooring. When it was a little bit wet there was some action, especially by Ham because he started so far back. But after the first round of pitstops it became boring real fast.

Ver could do nothing to Lec, he couldn't get close and even if he could the top speed of the Ferrari was such DRS wasn't enough to get him by on the straight.

Bor was all like "Let me by bro, why isn't he overtaking?" only to get stuck in the exact same place, not even getting into DRS range. Hul gave up and tried to do something with a pitstop, only to end back on the end of the train instead of in front of it.

Surely they had data from yesterday showing the deg on the mediums to be really low? It wasn't that big of a stretch to think Pia could easily make it on the mediums. Conditions were a bit different from yesterday, but I feel like the temperature being lower and the speeds being down would make the tyres degrade less, not more?

Then with 3 laps to go, Nor gaining 0.8 sec on Pia and being almost 5 secs behind him. Let me just do some quick maths... yeah no he ain't making it. But the commentary was going full COPIUM: "This is going to be epic you guys." Well no, even if somehow Nor got close, nobody was able to overtake at all. Let alone on super old tyres with the track being damp off-line.

They should have started the race so much earlier. The radar showed it being clear from 16:00, they just should have started then. Not all those laps behind the safety car. Once they get up to speed, they clear the track very quickly. Going slow behind the safety car doesn't help for shit.

I get Spa is special in how dangerous it is, especially the Kemmel straight that doesn't dry quickly and Dilano van 't Hoff being killed there just a few years ago. But at this rate they could better just not race at Spa, when it's dry it can get pretty boring and if it's wet it's too dangerous?

I did enjoy that tractor going down the straight at top speed tho, that was cool.