ROUND 14: ๐ง๐ช Belgium
FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2024
Circuit stats
- 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
Track Map
Perez starts on the front row, but finish seventh. RIP.
This is Russellโs win, but the team let him down.
The shorter drs zone seemed to have shown much less overtakes this race. Not sure if Iโm liking that or not.
Russell in trouble, underweight
I donโt think anyone had George winning todayโs race in their bingo card!
Perez, Leclerc, Norris all had mega fumbles. Donโt think it was enough for Perez to retain his seat. Letโs see what happens over the course of the summer break.
Well leclerc just didnโt not have a fast enough car under him. Norris had his strategy fumbled while being a little slow. Perez also had a suboptimal strategy but he was too slow anyway.
Yeah true about Leclercโs car being slower. Guess I got overexcited after seeing him start P1.
Norris definitely botched his opening lap T1. He himself mentioned it: https://mastodon.nl/@_formula1_/112865921523536889
Perez, absolutely 100% has to lose his seat if RB cares about winning. Not only did he somehow go backwards to P8 AGAIN on a day the car was clearly good enough for more, he managed to impede Verstappen indirectly for several laps, likely costing Max P4 at least.
The obvious choice is Riccy, heโs probably an improvement and he should be in the right mental state to be a clear #2.
I still wonder why they donโt give Tsunoda a shot at least though, heโs been good all year and purely on track, he deserves it. He must be struggling with professionalism off track still.
I also donโt understand why Lawson is under consideration for the other RB seat. Let him ease into it, no need to rush it, let him VCARB it rest of the year.
Youโre right with Ricciardoโs mental state and how well he might suit a #2 driver role, even though I totally agree Tsunoda has been better on track all year and really should be in with a better chance. I just donโt think Tsunoda would be happy being #2, his blow-up on the radio earlier this year was rough ๐ฌ