The shortest Grand Prix in the history of Formula 1 concluded for the Maranello team with 2.5 loot points after the FIA did everything possible to distribute at least half the points.
Following numerous messages from the Formula 1 governing body announcing a new delay of the Belgian Grand Prix race due to adverse weather conditions, the fans present at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit celebrated in style from the stands the fact that the GP was to start after hours of wait without any news.
However, only two more were added to the additional formation round in procession after the Safety Car that served so that the FIA could end a ‘race’ in which only half of the points having thus reached the limit established for this purpose.
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«First of all: correct decision not to run»Carlos Sainz made it clear as soon as he got out of his car and waited a few minutes at the box for the decision to come. «All the people who criticize from home that we don’t go out in these conditions, when maybe 20 years ago they left … bah, for me it’s nonsense, and I think it’s very fair that today it hasn’t been run. Basically I did not see here », he added extending his hand to hand a few face spans.
«Go at 300 per hour and not see at that distance … if someone spins at 300km / h we will eat it all. Why risk misfortune when we can avoid it for a race? ”# 55 mused aloud. «Second: to distribute points for a race that has not been there seems to me bad too. I think it shouldn’t be done, because basically … if you haven’t competed, why do you distribute points and why is there a result of a race that hasn’t existed? For me it should be crossed out and go to the next one, ”he said.
“It’s that simple, just like I think no one deserves points for a race that has not been run”
Even with the usual podium ceremony underway, despite the fact that the atmosphere was not the best for it, Sainz acknowledged that “unfortunately time has not let us run, and sometimes it passes”, something that for him must be assumed. «I think I finished 10th, but It is a half point that does not excite me. I think it’s a half point that I don’t deserve, because I haven’t run the race, basically. It’s that simple, just like I think no one deserves points for a race that has not been run.
The Dutch GP will be second in this first triplet of the second half of the season, although for many the feeling will be as if they were contesting the first. Let’s see if the weather improves, what happened today is very strange. That it does not stop raining in 5 hours, on a circuit where everything is quite dangerous and on top of that the visibility was zero … we hope that in Holland it can be run and we can make amendsSainz concluded.
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