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The Intercooler

F1 2024 half-term report #222

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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4.8868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel discuss the extraordinary Belgian Grand Prix at Spa, won on the road by George Russell who was later disqualified for having an underweight car. They also look back at the first half of the season, which looked likely to be another Max Verstappen stat-padding year before rivals McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes caught up with the Red Bull powerhouse. With 10 Grands Prix still to come, the 2024 season now looks like being a vintage one.


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Intercooler Podcast.

0:07.0

Hi everybody welcome back to the Intercooler Podcast.

0:10.0

Dan Prosser here with Andrew Frankel, me busy show this morning and yeah magazine

0:16.2

style lots of things we want to discuss now we're recording this the

0:19.5

morning after the Belgian Grand Prix yeah which was, well, a pretty captivating race and then a huge blow up afterwards.

0:28.0

Yeah, it became a captivating. I was sitting there watching it in the early laps thinking, well, okay okay, there wasn't a huge amount of

0:35.0

taking it up, but you could just see it was brewing, couldn't you? And you can see...

0:38.0

It's bumping away. At no stage could you actually think, well, that person's won the

0:42.2

race. I thought it was Lewis's race from the

0:45.1

outset and then I became increasingly less confident as that as the race went on

0:50.1

and then at the end of it I was right the. The curious thing was, so there was some overtaking, but of course, there's all the experts knew, as all the pundits were saying, you can overtake at Spa. But actually, it looked really difficult for a lot of guys. It did.

1:02.8

I mean that's why Max decided to take the grid drop there because it's the easiest place.

1:07.8

I guess Monza might be easier, but it's one of the easiest place to get past, and that's why he's taking

1:13.0

grid jobs the last three races there, I think. But it didn't look easy, did it?

1:17.0

And also, did you notice nobody wanted to overtake in that DRS zone going up to last

1:22.6

or so to turn on one because if you did that just meant

1:26.2

you would get completely stuffed going down the camel straight.

1:29.6

So that DRS zone you could use it to gain ground and make sure that you were behind them.

1:34.3

But nobody overtook there.

1:35.6

So there was essentially only one DRS zone.

1:39.2

And as Piaastri was saying, you know, it's very difficult there at very high speeds in those cars to run

1:45.6

behind very close behind another car. So if you're going through O'Rooge, you know, 100, I mean,

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