Thursday, August 15, 2024

F1 Belgian Grand Prix 2024

 Belgium race week 

Tuesday July 23rd 

Mattia binotto joins Audi.


Thursday July 25th 

Esteban ocon has officially signed a multi year contract with Haas becoming teammates with Ollie bearman.


Friday 26th July 

Max has a 10 place grid penalty for the race. Alpines team principal is leaving in August they said they would announce who is replacing him soon.



Saturday 27th July 


Qualifying 

Q1-rain is being predicted by McLaren but the other teams are not saying anything about rain. Hulkenberg, magnussen,Tsunoda, Sargent and Zhou are eliminated.


Q2- 8 mins to go and nothing is happening no rain I think and the track is drying up. 6:20 left and someone is reporting rain. Albon, Gasly, Ricciardo, bottas and stroll eliminated.


Q3- because verstappen has that ten place penalty Charles leclerc is on pole position for the race.



Sunday 28th July 

Race day

Lap 2 and Max who started 11th is up to 8th.

lap 3 lewis takes the lead. 

Lap 7 Zhou is out of the race. 

Lap 12 leclerc is in the lead as lewis had a pit stop and is down to 6th, verstappen is down to 12th but leclerc is about to put himself.

 Lap 15 verstappen is back in 8th.

 Lap 21 lewis is back in the lead and Max is 6th but might be 5th by the next lap. Yup that's Max 5th now. 

Lap 27 lewis is in the pit so piastri is leading the race, verstappen is 3rd.

 Lap 29 max in pit again so he is 7th. 

Lap 31 Russell is leading the race. George has won the race lewis was so close to winning. 

A few hours after the race has finished George has been disqualified for his car being underweight this means lewis is the winner now. Lewis is also driver of the day anyway.

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