Mercedes on the backfoot?

Mercedes traditionally start weekends slowly as they s🅷truggle to get the W14 setup right fr🔥om the off.

With just one practiꦚce session ahead of qualifyi🍎ng, due to the sprint format, Mercedes will have just 60 minutes of running to fine-tune their setup.

While this is the case for every team on the grid, just one session of running isn’t sufficient time to optimi🧸se the setup.

Let’s take Hungary as an example.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton 🎃claimed the W14’s handling was the “worst” it had felt all season after two practice sessions on Fr💟iday.

Mercedes quickly turned it around over🍨night with another practice session in the morning.

Obviously, they won’t get that luxury at Spa.

With the weather lo𒆙oking like it’s going to be wet, their inability to get on top of the setup quickly might not come back to bite.

Could McLaren finish third?

McLaren’s remarkable turnaround in F1 2023 couldn’t have been predicted by anybody.

Let’s notꦕ forget MꦅcLaren failed to score a single point in the opening two races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Their recent upgrade was expected to move them ahead of their midfield ဣrivals, such as Alpine, however the gains they’ve found have been unprecedented.

You’d have to go ba🉐ck to 2009 with McLaren when a teaꦦm made such significant progress mid-season with an upgrade.

In Britain and Hungary, McLaren 🐟were the second-fastest team behind Red Bull.

Their form will be a serious cause for concern for Ferra🍒ri and McLaren.

If the current points scoring continues over the next handful of♔ races, McLaren will likely move ahead of F🥀errari and Aston Martin within the next six rounds.

Finishing third in the constructors’ championship is surely a serious pos🎃sibility for the Woking outfit now.

Verstappen’s biggest margin yet?

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen reached a new level of dominance last time out at the Hungaroring, finishing over 33 seconds clear of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris. 

The scary thing is that it’s likely Red Bull will be even more dominant at Spa given th𝓰eir🐭 advantageous aero efficiency.

A year ago, Verstappen won the Belgian🥀 Grand Prix from 14th on the grid.

Hi🐻s ad💫vantage over the rest of the field was 18 seconds that day.

Should he have a smooth qualifying session, there’s no doubt it will be a greater margin, particularly if 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Sergio Perez’s underperformance continues.

Safety concerns

F1 returns to Spa less than a month after the death o🅷f 18-y🎃ear-old Dutch driver Dilano van ‘t Hoff.

Van’t Hoff tragically died in a Formula Regional European Championship race following a multi-car incident on the Kemmel Straight in 🌟treacherous conditions.

The accident resulted in a number of F1 drivers, most notably 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lance Stroll, to call for changes to the famous Bel🐲gian circuit.

Fingers crꦆossed this weekend goes smoothly with all drivers across all categories coming away from Belgium safely.

The weather a🙈t Spa looks blea🐓k with rain expected across all three days of running.