F1 2021 Round 12: Belgian Grand Prix

It's someones 130th GP this weekend. Carlos Seinz I am nearly sure.

It feels like it has been months since Hungary. The forecast is showing that much of today's running will be dry with the rain coming in from late afternoon for the whole weekend.

I wonder for a wet race is it the best time for Red Bull to take the engine penalty for Max or Sergio

Max can work his way through the field up to 2nd with little trouble I'd imagine, only risk is the other drivers making mistakes in the wet really

Consensus has been they should take it on a track like Sochi where Merc will win anyway, I think a wet race where Max can shine is as good as any, and Lewis isn't impervious to mistakes in the wet, see Imola 2021

The helmet Mick Schumacher will be using this weekend.

How bad was LeClerc's crash?

Reminds me of Schumacher back in the day, always finding the extreme limit and occasionally crashing off in practice as he perfected it. You can tell Max is finding the absolute limits of adhesion in that Red Bull, matching the Mercedes while Perez is in amongst the McLarens and Ferraris.

Of course it's much more costly now than it was in Schumacher's day, when there were no caps on budgets or replacement parts. And Red Bull are already in such a difficult position there since Mercedes took them out in the last two races and wrote off their engines.

I'm enjoying the coverage Schumacher's 30th anniversary has been getting around the media in general. Seeing Mick drive that Jordan 191 tomorrow will be the highlight of the weekend (even if it wasn't actually filmed this weekend)

Mick handed Lewis his fathers helmet last season at the Nurburgring, he was still in F2 fighting for a position in F1 so i dont see it as soft or anything like that

It’s hard to tell anything from a season like this for Mick, many greats have had forgettable starts like Alonso who didnt even have a seat after his first year

It was unreal! Sky have it up here on their Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/568665409957112/posts/2209706165853020/

Rain in spa ? That’s new.

Is it bad enough that they'll delay quali??

Doesn't look like it's letting up anytime soon.

Qualifying not surprisingly delayed.

I doubt they’ll do that given the alpine team director said it’s 80% chance of rain today and tomorrow so they’ll likely not got a bone dry track.

another point that was just made, they teams have four sets of inters and three full wet sets for possibly two days of running.

Ah disaster for George Russell when he was on a good lap.

Latifi answers your question.

Chocolate firegaurd 😄

Third set of inters on for Mercedes out of a total of four for the race weekend.

They did get through but they was harder then it should have been especially if the conditions are the same in the race as it is during qualifying.