2021 Belgian Grand Prix - Spa-Francorchamps, Aug 27 - 29

[El Scorchio]

The power of the stewards is immense. They can suspend time as well as drivers

Is Dr Emmett Brown on the stewards team this weekend? Maybe he brought his DeLorean??

He’ll never win in that. It only goes 88 mph….

[El Scorchio]

Why the hell didn’t they stop the three hours after one hour so they still had the option of a full race distance if the weather improved? Idiots.

It's quite perplexing, one can only wonder what they were waiting 2 hours for, especially since they had a good indicator that the rain could be ramping up - maybe the need a unanimous vote?. If they were really to err on the side of caution this is what they should've done and by this I mean your suggestion.

It very much reminds me of the saying ‘close the stable door after the horse has bolted’!

[politburo]

If it is a one hour race, wouldn't a team just run the engine idle to shed a bit of fuel?

[mzso]

Why the hell didn’t they stop the three hours after one hour so they still had the option of a full race distance if the weather improved? Idiots.

So what happened there? I didn't understand that message. So the race might be on at even 18:00?

This whole charade is pathetic.There are rain tires but they wouldn't race. Because "ewww mist"...
As for aquaplaning, it's the driver's responsibility to judge the limits even if it's aquaplaning, so do so...

[NathanOlder]

Those watching Sky... That Jordan sounded awesome. Screw this turbo hybrid rubbish. Bring back the V10!!

Unless it has a different engine in it, it was a V8 in the 191

[RZS10]

And now we’ve binned the 3 hour rule.

They have the power to do that, its in the regs.

Where exactly? I can't find it.

[flmkane]

Why the hell didn’t they stop the three hours after one hour so they still had the option of a full race distance if the weather improved? Idiots.

So what happened there? I didn't understand that message. So the race might be on at even 18:00?

This whole charade is pathetic.There are rain tires but they wouldn't race. Because "ewww mist"...
As for aquaplaning, it's the driver's responsibility to judge the limits even if it's aquaplaning, so do so...

Pirelli wets have been trash since the very beginning. No point trying to race when the tires can't deal with the water level. The tire design defect isn't a driver error.

[nevill3]

And now we’ve binned the 3 hour rule.

They have the power to do that, its in the regs.

Where exactly? I can't find it.

Its in the international regs...

[RZS10]

Oh, so not in the F1 sporting regs but some general FIA ruleset?

[El Scorchio]

Why the hell didn’t they stop the three hours after one hour so they still had the option of a full race distance if the weather improved? Idiots.

So what happened there? I didn't understand that message. So the race might be on at even 18:00?

This whole charade is pathetic.There are rain tires but they wouldn't race. Because "ewww mist"...
As for aquaplaning, it's the driver's responsibility to judge the limits even if it's aquaplaning, so do so...

Yes, I think so. So it can now start any time today but the three hours will also restart so we will only get an hour maximum of racing at the most- maybe less if light becomes a factor.

[Restomaniac]

Oh, so not in the F1 sporting regs but some general FIA ruleset?

Yeah they found rules that allows them to ignore F1 rules.

[nevill3]

Yes the FIA stewards have the power to suspend the clock of a race.

Do they have to restart it when the race starts though????? or could we get a full race distance

[El Scorchio]

At this point, it’s got to be some laps of proper racing with no safety car or nothing at all.

If proper racing isn’t possible then just put us all out of our misery and call it off now.

[maxxer]

Funny when Brundell talks about the bridgestones wet he gets off, well know the pirelly wets suck and create the spray

[politburo]

Teams now revving engines to shed fuel I suppose.