Belgian GP Analysis - Russell DQ'ed, Sainz to Williams, Perez Stays

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It was an intense Belgian Grand Prix, a strategic race at its core that had the surprise of George Russell perfecting a one-stop strategy to leap to the front of the queue and hold off Lewis Hamilton and Oscar Piastri in a dramatic finish... ...Or so we thought. After a couple of checks with the FIA scrutineering department, Russell was disqualified from the race with a car that was underweight by 1.5 kilogrammes. Alex Kalinauckas and Ronald Vording join Bryn Lucas on the Autosport podcast to break down just how impressive Russell's drive was, why he was ultimately DQ'ed from the race and pondering if Piastri missed another chance at a McLaren victory. In the aftermath of the race, F1's driver market took some massive steps forward Carlos Sainz announced his contract with Williams for 2025 onwards, whilst Sergio Perez was confirmed to be staying at Red Bull. But is Williams the right, or best, team for Sainz? And should Red Bull have made a different decision, with Daniel Ricciardo, Yuki Tsunoda and Liam Lawson in the wings? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Bryn Lucas and you're listening to the Autospot podcast.
0:10.1	Coming up, we'll discuss all the F1 news from the last few days.
0:14.3	Take a closer look at Red Bull's decision to keep Sergio Perez in the second car,
0:18.9	alongside Max Verstappen, Carlos Seitz's move to Williams for 2025
0:23.6	and dive a bit deeper into what went on at the Belgian Grand Prix with George Russell's underweight Mercedes.
0:30.6	The Belgian Grand Prix was a pretty good race. All in all, George Russell had looked like he had confounded the rest of the grid,
0:36.6	making a one-stop
0:38.1	strategy work to perfection, and taking the win at Spa Francocamp. Or so we thought. An hour
0:46.3	later, and a couple of trips to the FIA scrutineering scales, the British driver was disqualified
0:51.6	as his Mercedes was found to be 1.5 kilos underweight, promoting Lewis
0:57.1	Hamilton to first place ahead of Piastri in the McLaren and Ferrari's Charlerclerc.
1:02.5	We're here to make sense of that is Alex Kalanorkis and Ronald Vording. Gentlemen, how are you doing?
1:08.2	Yes, hello, Bryn, hello listeners, hello viewers. Yeah, it's a hot day for a change
1:13.3	in London. I'll have a guest, Ronald, Gordon, came to the British Grand Prix and just saw
1:18.7	rain basically the entire time. So it does happen. It does happen, Ronald. Look, I'm boiling hot here
1:24.0	in my office, but yeah, there we go. Thankfully, I'm used to it.
1:27.7	I mean, I'm sweating like crazy in here also, but I'm equally used to the rain.
1:31.5	So I'm quite happy that for my first time, Silverston, I got the full British
1:36.0	Silverstone experience, so it was okay.
1:38.2	We start talking about the weather immediately.
1:40.1	How British.
1:40.9	Well done all.
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