F1 2022-Round 14: Belgian GP (Spa Francorchamps)

Currently enroute to this myself. First time at a go and crazy to think it could be spas last for a while.

Hard to know who improved over the break. Merc have been quiet so that can only mean good things for them.

Leclerc out to 6/1 from 2/1 second favourite. The bookies must know something. I fancy Norris for a podium, he was going well here last year before crashing in the wet qualifying session.

Aston with the lowest DF wing I’ve ever seen, insane.

At this rate the grid might look like the Hungarian restart last year.

I haven't seen the cars on track. Are any of the track changes noticeable? I heard, on the radio coverage, they were bottoming on the resurfaced areas. Did they make a balls of the resurfacing or is that normal settling? I'd have thought the resurfaced parts would be the smoother than the old parts.

They also said the track changes are to make it more appealing to other formulae. Spa sees the writing on the wall so they're looking to the future. The track is long but it doesn't have much capacity for fans in either camping or stands, so they can't sell enough tickets to make much money from the F1 race. They'd either need lots of permanent grandstands and camping or build roads to get people in and out on the day or just focus on other races instead.

Will Leclerc and Max both go for pole to start ahead of each other when penalties are applied or will they do a handy q1 to save tyres?

Do they both have the same penalties?

Could potentially have a Q3 here with over half the field not able to qualify on pole.

Delayed start to qualifying due to barrier repairs

Did they give an expected start time?

14:20 Boards.ie time.

And more importantly, is the driver who caused the damage OK?

Two Porsche 911's.

An Irish flag in the crowd.

Will LeClerc help Sainz with a tow the same as Sainz helped him? Or because of the grid penalties does he need to do the best he can to start ahead of the other drivers with similar penalties?

That was some performance from Albon.

Honestly Gunther Steiner is someone you’d go for pints with. He seems a sound guy.

Sorted that. Albon is now into Q3.

Lance Stroll can’t understand why the car is so slow. Maybe it’s because of him being a bad driver.

Do ya think he was Stroll-ing?