F1 2021 Round 12: Belgian Grand Prix

So everyone got half points which is some attempt at balance.

3 points between Max and Lewis in Lewis' favour according to sky sports

😂🤣😂 Ah Lando.

Full race replay on Ch4 at 8pm

Very strange seeing decimal points in the championship points!

I'm kind of glad though that all that great qualifying action yesterday wasn't all for nothing.

Don't think there would be any point rescheduling it, as the weather isn't going to get any better as we move away from the summer, imagine it happened again. They couldn't move it to tomorrow with all the logistics they discussed like marshals being available. Everyone there should most definitely be refunded. I think they should have just had a rolling start and while there was some chance of a race. If they hung back there wouldn't been any visibility issues so could have took it handy as the track dried, if things didn't improve then red flag it after say 10 laps. The fans could have got to see something at least.

And just to preempt the obvious "delay the race" response. Most of the marshals are volunteers so wouldn't be available at short notice.

What a race lol. Delighted for George Russell and Max. But ye a bit impossible to race in that weather.

Well roll on next weekend.

In a way I'm a little disappointed that both Lewis and Max got a .5 in the half points allocation. It would have been something else if one of them won the championship by just that half point at the end of the season.

Didn't Prost win one of his titles by half a point. Don't know the details but probably a stopped race.

So if the criteria for stopping a race is no longer aquaplaning like it used to be (as the consensus from the initial formation lap was that there was no aquaplaning), and crystal clear visibility is now what’s required instead then there’s simply no reason to bring wet tyres to the circuits anymore is there?

So many of the best races I’ve ever seen wouldn’t have occurred under those requirements.

Exactly, they could easily have tried to run that race. If they’d kept running behind the safety car at the beginning they would have cleared enough of a dry line to get racing, Max (who had the most to lose if the race was started under dangerous conditions) was very clear that there was actually plenty of grip and the only complaints others had were visibility, something that was exaggerated by being bunched up behind the safety car and something that has existed for every wet race in the history of F1 and drivers have always just gotten on with it. Between field spread and a dry line starting to appear the visibility issues would have been manageable.

And if they did another ten laps or whatever behind the safety car and indications were that it wasn’t drivable, then at least they could say they’d made an honest attempt to run the race.