BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2022

Free practice 1

- WOW SO MUCH HAPPENED over the summer break including Seb announcing retiring, then Alonso leaving Alpine for Aston Martin to take Seb’s spot, then Alpine announcing their reserve driver Oscar Piastri as their driver for next year, then Oscar going on social media to say he will NOT be driving for Alpine next year, then Alpine insisting he has to contractually, then rumors he was going to go to McLaren to replace Daniel Ricciardo and then just no news until a couple days ago when Daniel announced he is leaving Mclaren and his future being uncertain now

- Back at Spa and it’s rainy again after last year when the race when rained out

- Liam Lawson is in for Gasly in Alpha Tauri! Yay Liam!!

- Red flag because Kevin stopped on the straight cause his car died

Free Practice 2

- nothing happened here EXCEPT they played an interview with Otmar basically roasting Oscar Piastri for having no integrity and saying he wished he had shown more maturity and stuff about the contract stuff and it was shockingly mean

Free Practice 3

- Charles goes into the gravel and they throw a red very quickly but he didn’t actually damage the car

Qualifying

- delay to start for barrier repairs from Porsche supercup crash

- Out in Q1: Vettel, Latifi, Magnussen, Tsunoda, and Bot? That’s super weird that Bot got out cause that never happens

- Out in Q2: Daniel, Gasly, Zhou, Stroll, Lil Schu

- Ferrari put Charles on the wrong tires and now he can’t tow Sainz and it’s ANOTHER unforced Ferrari strategy error and this is ruining his quali and fortunately he was already going to start with penalties so it won’t be that bad but still.

- Max gets pole technically but will start at back for penalties, so Sainz has a terrible lap but is still on pole after getting second because of Max’s penalties

- It’s literally too confusing to write down the starting order because the penalties

Race

- Perez has a terrible start and drops back from second so Sainz in first then Alonso and Hamilton AND THRN HAMILTON DRIVES INTO ALONSO and HAMILTON HAS TO RETIRE YAYAAYAYYYYYY! Hamilton really got tossed in the air and it was entirely his own fault

- Then Latifi nearly takes out Ocon after dipping a tire but then DOES plough into Bottas and Bottas is beached and has to retire and SAFETY CAR

- Alonso gets on the radio and calls Hamilton an idiot and says he doesn’t know how to race except from the front

- No further investigation for Hamilton and Alonso which means it was Hamilton’s fault and everyone knows it

- Martin says the blame was 100% Hamilton for the collision

- Sainz has a lockup on the start but Perez has not been on the attack well from second so Sainz keeps the lead

- Charles reports a problem with front right and it might have been a weird puncture so they put him during the safety car

- Maxy is FLYING through the field and by lap 8 he is 3rd after starting at the back!! Charles is trying to move up through the field

- Sergio really didn’t leave a space when he was blocking Charles and they touched and it was weird cause it was kind of dirty by Sergio

- 18/44 Max passes Sainz for the lead!! Ahhh Max is having an awesome race!!

- They pit Charles before the last lap to try and get the fastest lap but it was a TERRIBLE idea because they timed it terribly and released him into Alonso and then he had to just try and get back past Alonso for the whole last lap and he didn’t get fastest lap anyway and THEN they said that apparently he sped in the pit lane for the unnecessary stop and gave him a five second time penalty so he finished one position behind than he would have and it cost him 2 points overall and they didn’t give anyone else a penalty for anything the whole race so

- Max has a little slide in the way to the finish line and when watching in the break room he was laughing at it

- Max wins!!! Beautiful race from him!! Then Perez in second and Sainz in third