2015 Belgium Grand Prix

[Nitrodaze]

Kimi Raikonen has hung on to his seat at Ferrari for 2016. It is seeming Honda has not found an answer to closing the gap as the upgrades are not looking like making a significant improvement to the pace of the Mclaren. Interestingly, the lack of pace of the Mclaren is on sector timing not due the chassis but more due to the lack of pace of the Honda engine. It is looking sunny at FP1 and manual clutch release is not expected to have a huge impact on the race, but we would see on sunday.

[The Black Knight]

Pastor does it yet again in FP1 - crashes out. I wonder how much longer this clown will be in F1? Surely his days must be near an end.

[Robinho]

Has Maldonado cras....oh, already, whoops

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[AndyL]

McLaren taking 2 engine changes on each car this weekend to get all their penalties out of the way and give themselves enough engines for the rest of the season.

Scary looking tyre failure for Nico Rosberg in FP2.

[Nitrodaze]

Scary looking tyre failure for Nico Rosberg in FP2.

Pirelli seemed angst by Hamilton's questions about the safety of the tyres. You would think when a blow up like this occurs, everyone would be wondering about the safety of the tyres. It is puzzling why the FIA would find it neccessary to defend Pilrelli in the wake of Bianchi's recent passing. It just sends the wrong message. I hope they find out what the problem with tyre is before sunday.

[Tazio]

[Nitrodaze]

Yep, l always have something to say :-)

[truefan72]

I'm getting pretty tired of vettel running wide on turn 7 and throwing stones on the track to hamper the rest of the field

[zako85]

Yawn. We couldn't have expected a "worse" result. Hamilton qualifies 1.3 seconds ahead of the next non-Mercedes car. Vettel 9th. I think Mercedes made a big leap over the break. Nonetheless, this does leave some room for very exciting speculation. Now that Ferrari cars are almost certainly out of podium contention, which non-Mercedes car is going to be on the podium tomorrow?

[Tazio]

Boss, wow!