When Max Verstappen got lucky and secured one of the easiest wins of his career
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Max Verstappen wins the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix with George Russell and Lewis Hamilton beside him.
Max Verstappen won the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix, with the whole season going down the lane as a serious and hard-earned win, Spa could have been the easiest win a driver could have. Max Verstappen won the 2021 World Championship, Spa could have been a great influence in Verstappen’s win.
Spa 2021 was one of a few controversial races last season witnessed. It was a race, with no racing and yet had points offered to every driver in deserving positions. Max winning the race could have been a common thing, George Russell finished second in a Williams, that was a story Spa wrote down.
With heavy showers influencing the whole weekend last season, the race week started the normal way it should. With Interns and Wets all along the track, Free practice 1,2,3 and Qualifying were conducted with no worries about the rain. Lando Norris crashed out in the third part of the Qualifying brought out the red flag, all because of the neglecting attitude Race directors had.
Later as the race day arrived, the heavy and non-stopping rain took out all the possibilities of the race actually going to happen. Cars were brought out for two formation laps but stored water on track didn’t allow them to start the race. End result was decided by the Qualifying position of the drivers.
Max Verstappen won the race but only with half points
Max Verstappen won the race as he started on pole, George Russel after probably putting out one of the best laps was on P2 his first ever front row start and Lewis Hamilton, the title protagonist, was on P3. But with only 2 laps done, giving out points on regular basis would have affected the championship by some margin, anyway, the points difference between the two rivals was 5.
The spa incident was criticized by a lot of people, concerning the fact that wet tyres exist. With tyres that could remove many gallons of water with every second, the rain was no reason to stop the fun weekend many fans were wanting to see there, ultimately throwing their money off.
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Soham Raj Jain
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