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2023 Belgian Grand Prix - [SPRINT] discussion thread

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2023 Belgian Grand Prix - [SPRINT] discussion thread - Lemmy.world

FORMULA 1 MSC CRUISES BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2023 | Circuit stats| | | ----------- | ----------- | | First Grand Prix | 1950 | | Number of laps | 44 | | Lap record | 1:46.286 Valtteri Bottas (2018) | | 2022 winner | Max Verstappen | Image [https://media.formula1.com/image/upload/content/dam/fom-website/2018-redesign-assets/Circuit%20maps%2016x9/Belgium_Circuit.png.transform/7col-retina/image.png]

Plaid_Kaleidoscooe Jul 29, 2023

Yoooo. Anyone else here? Let’s go sprint racing!

IamAnonymous Jul 29, 2023

35 min delay

BowserDelta Jul 29, 2023

Did the start get pushed back? Thought I might have missed it!

ripened_avacado Jul 29, 2023

Same. I woke up a bit late and thought I missed the start. Anyone knows the reason for it?

Squeak Jul 29, 2023

There was a delay to the sprint qualifying and there’s a rule about giving a certain amount of time between quali and the sprint.

ripened_avacado Jul 29, 2023

Thanks for the info. We are expected to have rain in within 5 mins of the start. Should be an exciting sprint.

BowserDelta Jul 29, 2023

Praying for rain 🌧️

ripened_avacado Jul 29, 2023

Lol. Yeah hope that is not the case

Gsicht Jul 29, 2023

Please, please no repeat of 2021.

Shjosan Jul 29, 2023

The radar they showed don’t give me much hope they will start anytime soon…

bhmnscmm Jul 29, 2023

Those spray reducing wheel arches can’t come soon enough.

BowserDelta Jul 29, 2023

I thought the test they did with them didn’t work? Didn’t Williams do a test at Silverstone with them?

Shjosan Jul 29, 2023

Yes, the test was made and it did not work, so I guess it is back to the drawing board

Motecuhzoma Jul 29, 2023

We’re gonna be here for a while lol

Photographer Jul 29, 2023

There’s possibly not enough time to run the session. There’s only an hour without rain forecast and based on Sprint Qualifying it’ll take half an hour once the rain stops to get started.

fisco™🇬🇧🇺🇦Jul 29, 2023

I hope this gets going soon…I have work tonight… 😅🤦🏻‍♂️

toohightolemmy Jul 29, 2023

How long is the delay?

Motecuhzoma Jul 29, 2023

It’s getting canceled, isn’t it?

ripened_avacado Jul 29, 2023

I hope they just wait it out instead of cancelling it

Gsicht Jul 29, 2023

Look at that 🌈

Gsicht Jul 29, 2023

Those weather changes really are something.

IamAnonymous Jul 29, 2023

12 more minutes.

LCP Jul 29, 2023

While we wait, thought I’d share this from the stream:

BowserDelta Jul 29, 2023

World focking champion

jramskov Jul 29, 2023

That’s awesome - he would fook smash his way through 😁

jramskov Jul 29, 2023

~5 minutes to start - hoping for a standing start 🤞

jramskov Jul 29, 2023

4 laps behind safety car, then rolling start.

bhmnscmm Jul 29, 2023

I sure wish this was going to be a standing start. I’d love to see Oscar try to get the jump on Max.

TheWheelMustGoOn Jul 29, 2023

That would just lead to a red flag which takes until it starts raining again and we wouldn’t have gotten a race

bhmnscmm Jul 29, 2023

If this is the threshold for the amount of spray to race then we’ll never see a full wet race again.

TheWheelMustGoOn Jul 29, 2023

The F1 commentators calling the switch to Inters a gamble lol

LCP Jul 29, 2023

Great strategy from McLaren. Interested to see how things work out with no DRS for Max.

TheWheelMustGoOn Jul 29, 2023

Why was that great strategy? It was the only thing they could do?

LCP Jul 29, 2023

They could have chosen to stay out the first lap. But yeah I guess that wasn’t really a smart option.

bhmnscmm Jul 29, 2023

And now the tables have turned between Oscar and Max thanks to the safety car!

BaskinRobbins Jul 29, 2023

Does sprint race still determine the position of the race tomorrow?

TheWheelMustGoOn Jul 29, 2023

Nope thats gone this year

Motecuhzoma Jul 29, 2023

RB nailed Checo’s pit stop, good stuff

BowserDelta Jul 29, 2023

Safety car, damn it Fernando

Coelacanth Jul 29, 2023

Wow, can barely remember the last time Fernando made a mistake like that.

jramskov Jul 29, 2023

Rare mistake by Alonso…

BaskinRobbins Jul 29, 2023

RIP Alonso, lucky break for Verstappan

LCP Jul 29, 2023

Ricciardo in the points 🤯🤯

Coelacanth Jul 29, 2023

Checo floundering and Danny Ric in the points in an Alpha Tauri. I think we all know what thoughts are going through Helmut’s head right now.

TheWheelMustGoOn Jul 29, 2023

At least perez managed to not get overtaken by ric

bhmnscmm Jul 29, 2023

Still not too bad of a drive! He definitely had more pace than Yuki.

tiwenty Jul 29, 2023

Finished way ahead of Tsunoda and (by luck) ahead of Perez, that looks good for him

TheWheelMustGoOn Jul 29, 2023

This race should be longer!

jramskov Jul 29, 2023

Perez 😑

bhmnscmm Jul 29, 2023

Daniel is pretty pleased right now.

BowserDelta Jul 29, 2023

danielricciardo liked your post

LCP Jul 29, 2023

Issue doesn’t seem to have been caused by him this time? They retired the car.

PeeJay Jul 29, 2023

Everything that led up to that is his fault though. So whilst the contact and the resulting damage wasn’t his fault, the fact that he was in that situation at all was.

BaskinRobbins Jul 29, 2023

BS penalty for Hamilton

bhmnscmm Jul 29, 2023

5sec definitely seems excessive.

Plaid_Kaleidoscooe Jul 29, 2023

100%. Epitome of racing incident. Perez could barely keep it on the track. That was bs.

R05 Jul 29, 2023

Perez was already nursing a problem, if anyone was driving dangerously it was him.

PeeJay Jul 29, 2023

Fully deserved imo

jramskov Jul 29, 2023

Agreed - WTF was that about - nothing happened to any of the cars, it was racing.

buckaroo_banzai Jul 29, 2023

Well not nothing

Albert Fabrega on Twitter

“Agujero en el pontón y suelo roto en el Red Bull de Checo Pérez Checo Pérez Red Bull's with a hole on the sidepod and broken floor #f1 #BelgianGP”

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