F1 starting grid: 2023 Belgian Grand Prix
- Charles Leclerc Ferrari
- Sergio Perez Red Bull
- Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
- Carlos Sainz Ferrari
- Oscar Piastri McLaren
- Max Verstappen Red Bull
- Lando Norris McLaren
- George Russell Mercedes
- Fernando Alonso Aston Martin
- Lance Stroll Aston Martin
- Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri
- Pierre Gasly Alpine
- Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo
- Esteban Ocon Alpine
- Alex Albon Williams
- Kevin Magnussen Haas
- Zhou Guanyu Alfa Romeo
- Logan Sargeant Williams
- Daniel Ricciardo AlphaTauri
- Nico Hulkenberg Haas
Let’s see how this one pans out! We’ve had an exciting weekend of action so far. Let’s see if that continues. I’m hoping for just a little more rain!
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- Leclerc was looking at a podium finish but slid into the wall.
- Stroll was not looking at a podium finish but also slid into the wall.
- Hot damn the McLaren’s are quick.
Edit: 0/3, gg boys
I’m getting so bored with max winning, I’m genuinely thinking about cancelling my f1 subscription and watching indycar instead.
Disregard Max and we have the closest season in a while.
I feel like we all sold our souls for the championship battle excitement of 2021 and now we’re just waiting for 2026.
I’m just watching formula 1.1 and it’s pretty good. Pretend max doesn’t exist and it’s been a great season
Hopefully RIC will get through the start safely this time, will be interesting to see how he does in the long race.
Ultimately the car was just too slow - he wasn’t getting finessed in turns he was getting beat in the straights
Sadly true, but one might hope
OCO will balls of steel there!
Max is inevitable man. Pulling nearly a second lap on his team mate is crazy. Should have pitted him for the fastest lap
ALB looking very good. Gained 7 places so far.
McLaren not looking good today and not having good luck either.
Their gamble on high downforce for a wet race unfortunately hasn’t paid off. If it suddenly starts bucketing it down then Lando can still make a solid comeback if they play the strategy right
It might pay off. Let’s see what happens in 15 mins:
Why did Sainz stay out for so long, with damage that was obviously going to send him to the back for no points? Is there some penalty for retiring in the first half of a race?
No idea why tbh. No rules he couldn’t have been retired earlier.
They were probably hoping for a rain red flag to repair the damage. That gamble didn’t work out
Besides the top 5, the rest of the grid was really close today. I was often confused about how drivers emerged at the back from the midfield after pit stops.
So what do we reckon? I’m going for Max P3 by the end of the Kemmel straight and race lead by lap 3 if it’s dry.
That sucks for Piastri to go out, especially after doing so well during rest of the weekend.
News of tsunoda’s demise were greatly exaggerated. Considering the difference in the straight line speed of the AT’s, it is clear that ricciardo had a higher downforce setup helping him in quali while it hurt him in the race
The strategies in this race are going to be fantastic. Please God let Ferrari get it right for once.
The bulls are fighting each other today. Will they be mad enough to take each other out?
All things being equal they should just be exchanging first place repeatedly for the rest of the race, with the second place person having DRS all the time. But I’m sure that won’t happen. How does Verstappen do it?!
No idea buddy. The man is a machine.
The best circuit of the year is here!!!
Honestly very interesting grid, wouldn’t immediately say Max will 100% win this one as well. Depending on how wide everyone is at the start and how incident free it is as well. Although the raw speed of that redbull might prove me wrong.
