2024 Belgian Grand Prix - Spa-Francorchamps, July 26 - 28

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I guess McLaren should still have the upper hand, but if Norris has a slower first half of the race again, him and Verstappen could meet on track fairly quickly. Maybe Piastri could benefit from that.

[venkyhere]

I'm praying for rain.

Eternal sunshine of the Mercedes mind

[Mr Dean]

It's a hard race to predict. People are overestimating how easy it will be to pass. Max doesn't even have the best car let alone a car like the previous two races at Spa, so will lose time in traffic, in DRS trains. DRS zone is shorter as well. He'll be 10 seconds off the lead by lap 4. Same goes for McLaren. I expect a SC or VSC at some point just for a minor spin with all these gravel traps, so this might bring Max into play. Merc had decent race pace.

[Paa]

It will all come down to tyre usage.
The team with the best deg will win, unless some lare race SC comes into play.

Also between McLaren vs RedBull the deciding factor could be whether the medium or the hard is the better race tyre.

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it may not be so much about the tire itself, but more the car/setup-tire combination. Last year for example, the Williams was absolutely flying on the Softs but "eating" the mediums within a couple of laps.

Afterwards, the team suspected some potential technical issues, but to me it looked more like the low-downforce setup just needed the additional grip from the softer compounds. On the harder ones, they started to slight around quickly and thereby destroyed the tires immediately.

[chrisc90]

41c track temp and rising. Hottest its been in a long long time.

[mclaren111]

Go McLaren !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[organic]

Track temps very high which will favour those with 2 sets of hards. McLaren seems to also cope with high temps the best

[f1isgood]

McL should have an easy 1-2 today as long as they don't do anything a bit stupid.

[Zynerji]

Lando inherited Raikkonens bad luck, I swear.

[InsaneX_Badger]

Very much waiting for Hamilton's tyres to give up the ghost. Surely he's destroying his tyres trying to keep this pace.

[DGP123]

For me, one of the most intriguing races this. Set up beautifully

Hamilton controlling the race though. Should be managing those tyres.

[Luscion]

Very much waiting for Hamilton's tyres to give up the ghost. Surely he's destroying his tyres trying to keep this pace.

His tires are fine, Bono just told him the pace on the hards should pick up

[DDopey]

Perez helping Russel

[InsaneX_Badger]

I'm guessing the chat is really quiet because even though there's gaps forming between drivers, many of them are very much still in it if there's a late SC/VSC. It's poised beautifully, what will lady luck do?