Our fifth race in six weeks, the teams must be absolutely on their knees. Still, last one before the summer break. Spa is, of course, one of the jewels on the calendar crown, but things have been a bit bleak over the last few years. Atrocious weather (and in my view, poor decision making) in 2021 meant all paying spectators saw after standing round in freezing cold rain for hours was four laps behind the SC and no money returned. Efforts to improve possible running in severe rain since have so far come to nothing, so hope there's not too much rain forecast if you're going this year. Much more serious was the murder of the circuit CEO in 2021 and ongoing attempts to try to improve the safety record of the track following the tragic death of young F2 driver Anthoine Hubert in 2019. A difficult task due to the geography of the track.
(via Autosport: https://www.autospor...orchamps/27978/)
All will be hoping that this weekend delivers another great and exciting race, seeing as F1 is on a bit of a roll of late. Let's hope eh?
When is it on?
Local time, BST one hour earlier:
Weather
Obviously the above will likely change. The weather at spa is crazy and it's not unusual for it to be raining at only one bit of the circuit.
The Standings
Oh, and we've been kind of used I think to not really needing to look at the Championship tables because we've got used to seeing them like the days of the Champion racehorse Eclipse, i.e Eclipse first, the rest nowhere and tbh, we probably are still but hey...
edited to add: ANF’s informative post about recent track changes
https://forums.autos...ead/?p=10677341
Edited by SophieB, 25 July 2024 - 17:13.