![]() ![]() Hamilton, a three-time winner of the Belgian GP, holds an eight-point advantage over Verstappen heading into today’s race but has Hamilton has described the current campaign as the most tightly contested since 2016. Photograph: Dan Istitene - Formula 1/Formula Motorsport Limited/Getty Images The most ostensibly sensible option, but one that throws up various logistical problems: as well as broadcasting schedules and staffing at the circuit (the marshals for instance tend to be volunteers), the teams are all working on tight schedules ahead of next weekend’s race, with their garages ready to be broken down and packed off into lorries this evening.Ĭonditions are not ideal during the Formula 3 Championship earlier today. This depends on rain, which shows no sign of abating. Exactly how truncated, we don’t know: it could be a four-lap dash, for example. The race goes ahead in truncated form.This would deliver a classification, and half points, but leave the fans and competitors underwhelmed to say the least. The cars go out for two laps behind a safety car.There’s very little precedent for this, but here are the options are we understand it: There appears to have been no definitive ruling on this from the organisers. The bizarre technicality at play is that the occurrence of the formation laps means that, officially speaking, the race – which has a three-hour time limit – has started, and therefore points must be given out. Some ludicrously, there seems to be disagreement over whether or not the race has started. With the rain continuing to tumble from the skies above Spa, it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting a race anytime soon. ![]() This is what happens when you keep believing. Motorsport Technology is an Acronis initiative and Acronis are proud to be the official Cyber Protection Partner of Williams Racing. And that stunning lap will be a lovely reminder for Toto Wolff that he has made the correct decision. It may already be a done deal that Russell will be joining Hamilton for what will be a mouth-watering partnership in 2022 and possibly beyond. "I'll remember this for a long time to come" □ /Il1iiyH7ig This feeling is exactly what Formula One is all about.”Īnd with Sunday’s race day washes out but three laps completed behind the Safety Car, it meant that Russell bagged his first podium in F1 and stood on the podium with his trophy earned from that stunning qualifying lap. I had a really good feeling from lap one in FP3 in the wet and when it mattered, we put everything together and that was exceptional. It was so tricky out there but because we’re not in Q3 every week, I had the luxury of really being able to put everything on the line and go for it. “The driving is one thing, but you need to have everything right around you and often in these moments, that is what it’s all about. “The team did an incredible job to have me on the track at the right time, on the right tyres, with the right strategy,” commented the man himself in his team’s post qualifying release. But it is also well known that Russell is a future F1 champion in the making, the former F2 champ never having been outqualified by a teammate in three seasons and coming close to victory in his one outing for Mercedes but for outrageous bad luck. It is well known that the Williams is still some ways to being where it wants to be, to have a car capable of challenging for victories. The lap that put us on the front row for today’s race □ And to do so at a circuit widely known as one of the toughest examinations of driver skill shows just how good it was. It was a simply stunning lap on intermediate tyres in borderline torrential conditions for that tyre. Ayrton Senna’s opening lap at Donington Park in 1993 is a thing of legend and the great Scots Jim Clark and Sir Jackie Stewart beat the field by over four minutes at Spa Francorchamps and the Nurburgring respectively in the perilous 1960s.Īt Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, 29 August 2021, George Russell wrang every ounce of competitiveness from his Williams FW43B to incredibly put himself on the front row of the grid alongside Max Verstappen and ahead of his likely Mercedes future teammate Lewis Hamilton. Michael Schumacher was known as the ‘Regen Meister’ for his masterful command of wet conditions in comparison to his rivals. It separates the good drivers from the great drivers and the history books are the proof of the pudding. In motorsport, it is said that rain is the greatest leveller of them all.
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