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2024 Belgian Grand Prix - [PRACTICE 3] discussion thread

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ROUND 14: 🇧🇪 Belgium

FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2024

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  • Circuit name: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
  • First Grand Prix: 1950
  • Number of laps: 44
  • Circuit Length: 7.004 km
  • Race Distance: 308.052 km
  • Lap record: 1:46.286 Valtteri Bottas (2018)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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Saff@lemmy.ml
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Mostly it’s down to stubbornness. But under the guise of visibility. As Martin Brundle once said, they could always just go slower if they can’t see. But that’s not how racing drivers are built it seems. So they all go flat out in the wet, complain that they can’t see shit and then the officials red flag.

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Donut@leminal.space
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Going too slow (currently) doesn’t heat up the tyre enough to get grippy, so that would just cause a literal slide-show.

You can point to Pirelli for that one, but it doesn’t change the current situation

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