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2024 Belgian Grand Prix - [PRACTICE 3] discussion thread (lemmy.world)

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ROUND 14: 🇧🇪 Belgium

FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2024

Circuit stats

Circuit name: Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps
First Grand Prix: 1950
Number of laps: 44
Circuit Length: 7.004 km
Race Distance: 308.052 km
Lap record: 1:46.286 Valtteri Bottas (2018)
2023 winner: Max Verstappen

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 2 points 3 months ago

Visibility is the main reason. These ground effect cars create huge rooster tails in wet conditions which completely ruins visibility. Combine that with a wet tyre that has a very narrow operating window (something Pirelli has been criticized for over the past few years) and you'll get the situation you describe: the window where the full wets are actually faster but it's still raceable is vanishingly small.