Belgian GP review: Why was Verstappen so stunningly quick at Spa?
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Mark Hughes and Scott Mitchell-Malm join Edd Straw to look back at a Belgian Grand Prix in which reigning champion Max Verstappen asserted his dominance once more. But why was Red Bull - and Verstappen in particular - so much better than anyone else? Our hosting trio answer that question, as well as casting an eye over the performances of the rest of the field.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.0 | The race is on, and starting 14th on the grid was no impediment to Max Verstappen, |
| 0:15.3 | taking what was ultimately a dominant victory in the Belgian Grand Prix. |
| 0:19.4 | But what made Red Bulls so fast, |
| 0:21.4 | and is this the shape of things to come |
| 0:23.2 | for the second half of the season? |
| 0:25.1 | I'm Ed Sture, and joining us to tackle those questions |
| 0:27.7 | and many more are Scott Mitchell Malm |
| 0:30.1 | and Mark Hughes. |
| 0:32.9 | Mark, how are you doing? |
| 0:33.9 | We haven't heard from you for a few podcasts. |
| 0:35.9 | Had a good weekend? |
| 0:36.8 | Yes, yes. I've certainly enjoyed watching that race, even though the outcome was, |
| 0:44.5 | much as a lot of people predicted, it was fun watching it unfold, watching how it unfolded. |
| 0:52.0 | And yeah, I mean, it's just an extraordinary performance, wasn't it? |
| 0:57.2 | Yeah, massively so. And lots of question marks over exactly how that happened that we'll get |
| 1:02.1 | into. But actually, Mark, have you met our new podcast regular Scott Mitchell and Malm? |
| 1:06.7 | I used to know a guy looked like I'm with a similar name name but no, I haven't met this guy yet. |
| 1:12.1 | I've seen this new guy's |
| 1:13.6 | byline on the |
| 1:15.2 | race website. |
| 1:16.2 | I hope that he writes |
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