ROUND 13: 🇧🇪 Belgium
FORMULA 1 MOËT & CHANDON BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2025
Circuit stats
- First Grand Prix: 1950
- Number of laps: 44
- Circuit Length: 7.004 km
- Race Distance: 308.052 km
- Lap record: 1:44.701 Sergio Perez (2024)
- 2024 winner: George Russel
Track Map
I thought race direction was on the money today. I’ve no interest in stop start races or races with endless safety cars. F1 causes too much spray and if the drivers can’t see you can’t really justify a race with an acceptable level of risk. The only way we would get wetter races is with a complete redesign of the cars, which would probably lower the performance so much that it just wouldn’t be F1 anymore.
You can have cars with different aero than ground effect and still be fast. The spray problem isn’t an inherent “F1 problem”, it’s a problem with the current regs. We’ve had other regs that were equally fast but created less spray.
But even accounting for that this was a farce in my opinion. It was so dry when we eventually green flagged that people had to immediately actively look for wet patches off line to cool the inters and first reports of them overheating came on lap 2. Hell, we had a “wet race” with no Yellow flag, no retirement, no big moments from anyone and barely even anyone going off track.
We’ve had wetter races this season and it’s been fine, but I guess being at Spa makes race control panic.