Max Verstappen won a farce of a Belgian Grand Prix – a procession behind a safety car for TWO laps. The crowd at the rain-hit Spa-Francorchamps circuit waited three-and-a-half hours for the results as the highest paid drivers on earth sat in their garages waiting for the weather to clear. George Russell of Williams finished second with Lewis Hamilton third. That is where they started. The rest of the grid also finished where they started.
Verstappen’s victory – as hollow as any – won him 12-and-a-half points in the championship fight, as half points were awarded with less than 75 per cent of the race completed. Two laps is the minimum required for a classification. It was all most unsatisfactory, not least for fans soaked to the bone, some perched on mud banks. The afternoon’s ‘action’ opened with the race start time delayed from 3pm local time to 3.10pm to 3.15, 3.20 and then 3.25. The cars left the grid behind the safety car for the formation lap, but peeled back in. The rain was light but persistent. Visibility was the bigger concern.
Source : (Daily Mail)
