For a first race back having being taken out in T1, Ricciardo has done a wicked job here. Tsunoda obviously not had the best race of the year, but he's 10s behind right now.
Alpine having a nightmare.
Ouch
Zhou bowling! Strike!
Piastri is so impressive. One to watch out for. McLaren can let Lando go and still have a top driver now
I'd be starting to think about picking up Piastri over Norris at this point. It's his rookie year and he's on a very similar race pace as Norris, maybe not got the ultimate quali pace yet. Norris took over a year to look this close to Sainz, and never consistantly beat him. He's only going to get better and the McLaren is notoriously unbalanced so he can handle an imperfect car. He's probably cheaper and not on as long a contract. Norris is still the better of the two at the moment but I wonder if he will be for long.
What happened regarding the first pit stop though? Piastri's stop was faster than Norris', but this Norris managed to undercut him. Are they on different strategies?
Undercutting your own teammate is bound to raise questions. Hopefully we get answers after the race.
Does piastri have some sort of damage. His pace has dropped like a stone in the 2nd and 3rd stint
Emotional damage from his teammate getting the preferred pitstop?
Update: Apparently there was a broken floor issue. Don’t know how, didn’t see him make any contacts. PIA better hope he does not inherit HUL luck.
Yeah he went from matching Lando to becoming 7 tenths slower. Only damage can explain that.
Don’t know how, didn’t see him make any contacts
Must have been like Hamilton in austria in 2021 where the his wing was damaged due to a kerb. Considering how low the floors are, he must hit the kerb at the chicane
Very big gains and losses on lap 1. Good for Ferrari and McLaren, mixed bag for Merc, Alfa and Alpine the big losers.
Fucking Ferrari! The car is shit, the strategists are shittier and now the drivers are fucking up.
Why am I supporting this team?
Well, masochism is a thing. So, whatever floats your boat. ;-)
How much damage is RIC carrying? Been at the bottom since the lap 1 incident.
It's also his first race back in a car that has done poorly all season
McLaren's pace seems legit, which is cool, and fast corners at Spa should suit them even more than Hungaroring. Good job to the Woking boys.
Aston Martin and Ferrari should have been better here, so a middling performance behind Merc and McLaren doesn't look good. Maybe just putting all their eggs in to next year's basket?
Mercedes looked back to their usual performance levels after a great qualifying lap from Hamilton yesterday
Alpine is such a disaster of a team, I want to like Enstone like I did in the 2000s with Alonso and early 10s with Raikkonen, but they're just tragic. Today wasn't even their fault, but it's such an Alpine thing to happen.
Perez was better today, especially on a track that's hard to pass, but Ricciardo looked like he has a bit of a spark back. With Verstappen running away with every race I can't deny that I wouldn't mind giving Daniel a shot in the RBR at this point. Anything to make the battle for the lead a little bit different.
Great Quali pace from Alfa Romeo turned in to a typically pointless race result. While the Ferraris, Perez, Russell and Alonso were likely to get by, Albon in the Williams should definetely not have finished ahead of them. Considering the money Audi is starting to invest in the team I hope they begin to see more results.
I love the optimism, Sky, but there's no way Hamilton catches Perez from 1.7 seconds behind in one lap.
Leclerc, c'mon. You don't have to make it even harder
FFS, Alpine.
Alpine... sheesh.
SAI getting ahead of LEC in the most Ferrari way possible.
NOR undercutting PIA is going to raise some eyebrows.
RB 1.9s pit stop?
Zhou had the worst start possible, ending 4 promising races. Lewis also got caught out.
What a quick end to a lot of potential fun :(
I missed the first 5 laps, wtf happened?
Zhou got a late start and went bowling instead.
I just watched the clip... Crazy. Alpine has the worst fucking luck this season.
They swapped straight to the podium positions and started the circular procession.
I just laughed because I noticed Verstappen could pit again and still get back on track in first position.
33 seconds ahead. 33 seconds. Scary.
He's missing his old number
Oh wow both Alpines out in the first lap. Yikes.
Zhou into Riccardo and then Riccardo into an Alpine, and then into another Alpine.
Ferrari's resident strategist Sainz at it again.
Ferrari strategists having another brain fart. Car with potentially faster tyres is stuck behind his teammate:
Unless something drastic changes, I guess it will be VER-PER-NOR
Did HAM get wheelspin? Yesterday they were saying the side Max was on would be dusty and would have relatively worse start.
Wow potential fireworks at McLaren
Oh how I've missed Alonso defending here haha
Hoping to see a clean first lap. Would be great to see Norris get a good start even for a few laps.
Ooh how long has there been a sort by new / chat button?
Max and Lewis take each other out and then McLaren 1-2.
Oh my god, Ocon and Gasly that's terrible
Thats rough going for them
I'm just stoked to see races where there is some competition! This one's shaping up to be a good one!
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