2025 Belgian Grand Prix

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At Spa. This is a sprint race weekend. Both Ferrari and Red Bull are bringing upgrades that could be their last swing at this 2025 car.

Watching FP1, it’s amazing how much the cars are dragging the bottom through the eau rouge / raidillon section. There’s a gouge forming in the track.
 
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Red Bull were super trimmed out for the Sprint, Piastri couldn’t get within striking distance of Verstappen even with DRS. They packed all the downforce back on for qualifying with wet weather in the forecast for the race. Should hopefully pan out better than Silverstone did then.

Yuki already feeling the Mekies effect. Best qualifying result for him with the parent team so far:

 
Should’ve been green 20 minutes ago. This is beyond silly. Should have a standing start in these conditions as well.
 
donthaveanickname said:
Hate to say but this has been boring af since they changed to slicks. They're showing the battle for 11th most of the time because nothing is happening further ahead
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It’s sacrilegious to say but I won’t really miss them skipping Spa every other year. Modern F1 machines just don’t put on good racing here and they clearly are too spooked to race in anything resembling wet conditions that you get here so often.
 
At this point it seems Piastri’s side of the garage is committed to nursing the mediums to the end.
 
FLRacingFan said:
It’s sacrilegious to say but I won’t really miss them skipping Spa every other year. Modern F1 machines just don’t put on good racing here and they clearly are too spooked to race in anything resembling wet conditions that you get here so often.
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I get it but looking at the new tracks specifically designed for these cars like Miami and Madrid they just aren't much better. Especially Madrid. There are zero passing opportunities.

I do hope the racing will get better with the new cars.

For whatever reason the track coming up has gotten much better with the ground effect cars.
 
FLRacingFan said:
It’s sacrilegious to say but I won’t really miss them skipping Spa every other year. Modern F1 machines just don’t put on good racing here and they clearly are too spooked to race in anything resembling wet conditions that you get here so often.
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It wasn’t that long ago someone was killed here.
 
FLRacingFan said:
It’s sacrilegious to say but I won’t really miss them skipping Spa every other year. Modern F1 machines just don’t put on good racing here and they clearly are too spooked to race in anything resembling wet conditions that you get here so often.
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The problem at Spa is the same as Hockenheim used to have. With all those trees, any wind can't clear out the spray mist.
 
donthaveanickname said:
I get it but looking at the new tracks specifically designed for these cars like Miami and Madrid they just aren't much better. Especially Madrid. There are zero passing opportunities.

I do hope the racing will get better with the new cars.

For whatever reason the track coming up has gotten much better with the ground effect cars.
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It seems like everyone trims out just enough for Spa that DRS is a lot more ineffectual, the cars are too big and the corners too fast to follow closely anymore here. Doesn’t help that they have to bring hard tires because of all that as well.
 
Mispeedway15 said:
It wasn’t that long ago someone was killed here.
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Conditions were a good bit worse then, they waited until the rain had stopped entirely and the sun was shining to go green today. Even then, they didn’t do a standing start when they could’ve.

Ideally, the new cars moving away from ground effect concepts will lessen the spray. The wet weather debacles have just racked up too high over the past several years.
 
I think the race could have started 20 minutes earlier, and we could have had an exciting race.
 
Reagan said:
I think the race could have started 20 minutes earlier, and we could have had an exciting race.
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At least 10 minutes. Could’ve gotten somewhere in the range of 10-20 minutes of proper intermediate conditions racing.
 
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