2025 Belgian GP: Post Race Analysis

Well.....F1 is a team sport and Ferrari has no team.

 

Even with 10% of the race behind the safety car - what the ****

 

Yes. No conspiracy just circumstance dictating strategy!

 

Even the press are seering the issues with the circuit, mostly its a car/aero issue. Possibly a better drainage system for the circuit.

https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/everything-we-learned-f1-2025-belgian-grand-prix/

Modern F1 and Spa are a poor combination

Painful as this is to say, Spa's compatibility with modern F1 has never seemed worse.
Qualifying at Spa is brilliant, and in the wet it's still a mighty challenge, but the two races F1 had this weekend were deeply underwhelming.

With very little in the way of overtaking, Saturday's sprint race was the weakest since a very static maiden sprint at the 2021 British GP.

Then Sunday showed the extent of the visibility problem here that is the enemy of good wet racing, especially with current F1 cars producing so much spray.

Even Lewis Hamilton, who was calling for the race to start earlier than it did, admitted Spa makes it feel like the drivers are "going through fog; I don't know what we're going to do to try and fix it".

Spa's already shifting to a rotated spot on the calendar. But as one team boss told The Race, if it keeps suffering from races being delayed or flirting with not happening at all because of the weather, even in the summer, it could lose its place permanently.

And even when the races are in dry conditions, F1 at Spa is a shadow of the past. The races feature little overtaking and DRS trains. We can only hope the 2026 cars will be better suited to such a legendary track.

 

Your first sentence is accurate, and it'll be worse next year with Liberty "dial a winner".

Your DOD is ludicrous! Fewajii Pitwall nailed it for once and lil lewee passed some back markers.
DOD's: Chuck, Albon and Oscar that pass was a Max level pass!!