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Hello everyone, kicking off today's episode with a quick disclaimer.

You might well have heard the news by now that George Russell has been disqualified from the Belgian Grand Prix due to his car being under the minimum weight limit.

We did not know that when we started this episode.

The news came out some way through the episode,

so you'll hear us reference it quite a lot.

But at least in the early stages,

when we're referring to George Russell having won the race,

of course that is no longer true.

Hope you enjoy the show.

Hello and a very warm welcome to the Lake Breaking F1 podcast presented by Harry Ead, Sam Sage, and me, Ben Hocking, reviewing

today the Belgian Grand Prix, a Grand Prix won by George Russell, a Grand Prix one-tood by Mercedes. Sam, what's up with that? But I love how you phrased that, Ben. Oh, that was fantastic. We're all a little bit delicate this morning, folks. All right. We're all really delicate. Harry for different reasons. This morning, it's 10 past four, my guy. Oh my God, yes, it is.

That's your first sign that maybe got all this well.

What's an interesting Grand Prix we just came across.

I quite enjoyed it, quite tactical, quite a slow burner.

But a lot to delve into, which we're going to do right now.

I sense it might be a long afternoon. You mean a long morning? Yeah, whatever time of day it is. Whatever day it is. I'm just going to put it. I'll say, Stone Cold Banger of a race. I think it was excellent, but we can get into that. Yeah, we'll get into that, mate. All right, Steve Austin, come now. Sorry. Still called Steve Banger. We've got your usual classics for a review episode. We've got a moment of the race. We've got reviewing our bold predictions, driver of the day, worst driver of the day, all coming up later on in the show. We will, of course, though, start with the winners of the Grand Prix. Didn't look like a probability on Friday, hence why many people all around the globe decided to put Ferrari in their fantasy teams rather than Mercedes.

Russell and Hamilton, Russell winning, Hamilton in second place. Russell executing a one-stop strategy going a long way on those hard tires.

Sam, the commentary team didn't seem to think that this was going to be a fight towards the end of the Grand Prix.

It most certainly was, and it was won by George Russell.

Are we all collectively a bit fed up with the commentary team today?

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