🏁🏎️ Sportsbet.io🏁 FORMULA 1 2024 Season🏁🏎️Prediction Pool Discussion Thread

[swogerino]

Eleven more Grand Prix left in this season and Belgian famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit is next for this weekend.
Can anyone confirm weather prognosis for next days and during the weekend for Stavelot, Liege?
I see some rain and humidity for Friday and Saturday, but Sunday should be dry and sunny.

That is without a doubt the best circuit of the calendar and the fact that the weather will be sunny on Sunday is great here,in such track rain only ruins things instead of making the race more interesting.Verstappen is having a 10 place grid penalty and this means to be thought well guys regarding the way we should place our predictions carefully taking this into considerations and also Tsunoda will start last,so most likely Tsunoda to be excluded from points zone here.

What I see as a definite thing here is McLaren winning again.That is the only variable I don't see changing during this weekend.Can't wait for Sunday for this track,then off to vacation we go until end of August.

[notblox1]

What I see as a definite thing here is McLaren winning again.That is the only variable I don't see changing during this weekend.Can't wait for Sunday for this track,then off to vacation we go until end of August.

I am not so sure about that, Ferrari has a good record on Spa-Francorchamps and they can always come back with another win.
Winning in F1 Practices doesnt mean that some team will do good in qualifications and in main race.
But I like how F1 has become much more interesting after some mistakes from team Red Bull and Verstappen.

[CLS63]

McLaren has really made a big progress recently as you have also seen. Do you think they can become the champions this season?    Because while there are still 11 races left it has started to be more possible. The current point difference is 51 which can easily be closed. You know Perez's situation this season. He is a big failure and Verstappen isn't as dominant as last season to make Red Bull champions by himself now.

[Reatim]

McLaren has really made a big progress recently as you have also seen. Do you think they can become the champions this season?    Because while there are still 11 races left it has started to be more possible. The current point difference is 51 which can easily be closed. You know Perez's situation this season. He is a big failure and Verstappen isn't as dominant as last season to make Red Bull champions by himself now.

It is definitely possible unless redbull sacks Perez and takes another driver for the rest of the season which is highly likely i think

Perez can't seem to find his groove back on and I know it has a lot to do with the car not being the fastest anymore but since Verstappen is Verstappen, most people think that Perez just has no skills at all because of their big difference

Anyway there are three possible options for redbull right now: Ricciardo, Tsunoda, or Lawson

Whoever they put in the second seat of redbull, I am pretty sure Mclaren has the wcc in the bag with both of their drivers consistently driving well

[buwaytress]

From a team perspective, letting Norris win would have been the right call - after all, he's got a theoretical chance of pushing Verstappen for the title. Piastri does not, so I was really surprised by the call.

I'm putting this guy as my all for the pick. Winner, fastest, pole. Then saw that he did actually top practice, and he is the bookie favoured, so turns out I'm not really making any kind of smart call anyway heh.

Do want Max to be pushed all the way so Norris winning is really the best outcome for the sport.

F1 is a strange animal really, I'm on a good betting roll and don't want it to end.

[swogerino]

From a team perspective, letting Norris win would have been the right call - after all, he's got a theoretical chance of pushing Verstappen for the title. Piastri does not, so I was really surprised by the call.

I'm putting this guy as my all for the pick. Winner, fastest, pole. Then saw that he did actually top practice, and he is the bookie favoured, so turns out I'm not really making any kind of smart call anyway heh.

Do want Max to be pushed all the way so Norris winning is really the best outcome for the sport.

F1 is a strange animal really, I'm on a good betting roll and don't want it to end.

I don't know if it was because of Verstappen or becaue of the new power unit or because of the rain that he was on another planet making the fastest lap half second faster than the second guy.Sure McLaren did well as a car but their drivers unfortunately both fail to give their maximum in the rain as they are not experienced drivers in the rain like Hamilton or Verstappen.I had Norris as the top guy and keeping him although in here starting from the 4th place is no big problem considering how fast this track is and how many DRS zones are in this track,it should be a good one,one thing I am sure,it is not going to be anyone getting more than 20 points from the starting line up in here.

[CLS63]

Anyway there are three possible options for redbull right now: Ricciardo, Tsunoda, or Lawson

Tsunoda is trying to make Red Bull realize his existence recently. He says he is the best among the possible candidates for the seat there. But I don't know what Red Bull thinks about it for now.


By the way Leclerc has taken the pole position. I was never expecting this to happen to be honest.    But track conditions were wet mostly and after it started to dry it was really difficult to predict who would win pole position. Perez was also close to win it but Leclerc got past him by a very small gap. McLaren drivers couldn't keep a good pace in qualifying. There is no rain expected for tomorrow as far as I can see. They can still climb to top.

[notblox1]

I told you guys Ferrari has a good chance to do something in Spa-Francorchamps and Leclerc won the first place in qualifications and pole position.
One of my picks was also on Hamilton and I placed a nice bet on him in Sportsbet, he is starting from third place and I think he can win tomorrow.
It is going to be interesting to see what Verstappen can do starting from 11th place, but maybe Perez saves the day for team Red Bull.

[boltz]

I told you guys Ferrari has a good chance to do something in Spa-Francorchamps and Leclerc won the first place in qualifications and pole position.
One of my picks was also on Hamilton and I placed a nice bet on him in Sportsbet, he is starting from third place and I think he can win tomorrow.
It is going to be interesting to see what Verstappen can do starting from 11th place, but maybe Perez saves the day for team Red Bull.

Let's hope they will also have race pace tomorrow because Leclerc do have a fair chance to actually win the race if he stays long enough in 1st position and won't give up against Perez in the first 4-5 laps. Actually he was 2nd place and only took pole because Max a 10 grid penalty for changing his mku engine or something similar but even with this , a pole is a pole and Ferrari should do a proper strategy tomorrow to keep Leclerc in 1st place or at least secure a podium.

[LTU_btc]

I wasn't able to watch qualifying, and it seems that I missed some interesting things. Verstappen taking pole by 0.6 seconds, it's been a while since there was such huge gap in qualifying. Yeah, he will start from 10th place, but considering that they're racing in Spa and if he will keep such pace, we can expect very interesting race tomorrow.

[Koal-84]

I wasn't able to watch qualifying, and it seems that I missed some interesting things. Verstappen taking pole by 0.6 seconds, it's been a while since there was such huge gap in qualifying. Yeah, he will start from 10th place, but considering that they're racing in Spa and if he will keep such pace, we can expect very interesting race tomorrow.

Exactly Verstappen was unbeatable in qualifying, but it was also changing weather conditions, so should it be dry tomorrow, the situation will be completely different again, according to the weather forecast for tomorrow it looks like it will be dry conditions.

[buwaytress]

I don't know if it was because of Verstappen or becaue of the new power unit or because of the rain that he was on another planet making the fastest lap half second faster than the second guy.Sure McLaren did well as a car but their drivers unfortunately both fail to give their maximum in the rain as they are not experienced drivers in the rain like Hamilton or Verstappen.I had Norris as the top guy and keeping him although in here starting from the 4th place is no big problem considering how fast this track is and how many DRS zones are in this track,it should be a good one,one thing I am sure,it is not going to be anyone getting more than 20 points from the starting line up in here.

Max's penalty suggests he shouldn't have dominated like that though, no?

I changed all my picks after qualifiers. Usually stick with what I already entered, the EB points always seemed too precious, but my initial podium finishers appear to be completely out of whack with the starting positions.

[swogerino]

I don't know if it was because of Verstappen or becaue of the new power unit or because of the rain that he was on another planet making the fastest lap half second faster than the second guy.Sure McLaren did well as a car but their drivers unfortunately both fail to give their maximum in the rain as they are not experienced drivers in the rain like Hamilton or Verstappen.I had Norris as the top guy and keeping him although in here starting from the 4th place is no big problem considering how fast this track is and how many DRS zones are in this track,it should be a good one,one thing I am sure,it is not going to be anyone getting more than 20 points from the starting line up in here.

Max's penalty suggests he shouldn't have dominated like that though, no?

I changed all my picks after qualifiers. Usually stick with what I already entered, the EB points always seemed too precious, but my initial podium finishers appear to be completely out of whack with the starting positions.

So are mine yet I know in this track most drivers can finish off the track in a bit,just one wrong steering command and boom we have the Safety Car in,of course most of the times the Safety Car in here is not present because the track is wide enough and the only place where Safety Car can come in is in the first turn.I doubt anyone was bold enough yesterday to put Leclerc on podium except some fanatic Ferrari fan so I assume most people are starting out with just 2 points.I didn't change my predictions because I see this track as a really long one with a lot of overtaking possibilities so why not go bold,it is either make it or break it yet I like this kind of situation.

[boltz]

I wasn't able to watch qualifying, and it seems that I missed some interesting things. Verstappen taking pole by 0.6 seconds, it's been a while since there was such huge gap in qualifying. Yeah, he will start from 10th place, but considering that they're racing in Spa and if he will keep such pace, we can expect very interesting race tomorrow.

Exactly Verstappen was unbeatable in qualifying, but it was also changing weather conditions, so should it be dry tomorrow, the situation will be completely different again, according to the weather forecast for tomorrow it looks like it will be dry conditions.

4 races in a row without a win from RedBull and at this point I'm starting to think that they have been lucky at the start of the season because they clearly don't have the faster car on track by far. Sure , there will be tracks where RedBull will be able to win again but at this point , McLaren and even Mercedes are looking way better than RedBull. Another problem that seems to persist for RedBull is Sergio Perez who cannot find any pace on that car and won't help his team with vital points and rumors are that in Imola , Ricciardo and Lawson will go for a time trial for that 2nd car of RedBull. 

Today , I must say Mercedes had a brilliant idea to go just for 1 stop with Russel and it paid big time as he won the race. I think RedBull could have done the same with Perez and even Ferrari with Sainz ...but they didn't.

[LTU_btc]

It seems that Russel will be disqualified and win will be awarded to Hamilton:
https://twitter.com/FastestPitStop/status/1817590776463007860/history
His car was under mimimum weight.

4 races in a row without a win from RedBull and at this point I'm starting to think that they have been lucky at the start of the season because they clearly don't have the faster car on track by far. Sure , there will be tracks where RedBull will be able to win again but at this point , McLaren and even Mercedes are looking way better than RedBull. Another problem that seems to persist for RedBull is Sergio Perez who cannot find any pace on that car and won't help his team with vital points and rumors are that in Imola , Ricciardo and Lawson will go for a time trial for that 2nd car of RedBull. 

Today , I must say Mercedes had a brilliant idea to go just for 1 stop with Russel and it paid big time as he won the race. I think RedBull could have done the same with Perez and even Ferrari with Sainz ...but they didn't.

I don't think that they were lucky. Such dominance that they had can't be luck. But after that Mercedes and Mlcaren improved a lot. Still, having so many different race winners isn't bad thing for Max, as long as he finish races quite high. There is no single driver who is getting lot of points consistently that would be threat for Max and his champion title.

[Koal-84]

It seems that Russel will be disqualified and win will be awarded to Hamilton:
https://twitter.com/FastestPitStop/status/1817590776463007860/history
His car was under mimimum weight.

I also just read that Russel could still be disqualified because of the weight. Hopefully there will be a decision soon and it won't take the whole summer break again.

I think the final result will be known tomorrow.

[Saint-loup]

It seems that Russel will be disqualified and win will be awarded to Hamilton:
https://twitter.com/FastestPitStop/status/1817590776463007860/history
His car was under mimimum weight.

I also just read that Russel could still be disqualified because of the weight. Hopefully there will be a decision soon and it won't take the whole summer break again.

I think the final result will be known tomorrow.

No, it's already official, George Russel has been officially disqualified from the race. I wonder which result will be taken into account by Superbru and by sportsbooks. I guess most of bookies have already paid the outcome of Russel's victory. Some of them could cancel the bet and the payment though, leading to some bad surprises for the winning bettors. Other sportsbooks paying several hours after the official results of the events, such as Freebitcoin should pay the actual official outcome IMO.

After being referred to the stewards, it was confirmed that Russell had been disqualified from the race. As such, Hamilton is promoted to P1, while Oscar Piastri now takes P2 and Charles Leclerc moves up to P3.

https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/breaking-russell-disqualified-from-belgian-grand-prix-for-underweight-car-as.2NIuo4cHgOl1LgplIkGG5D

The results of the race on formula1.com haven't been updated up to know btw.
https://www.formula1.com/en/results/2024/races/1242/belgium/race-result


Edit: Superbru has taken Hamilton as actual winner.

[jeremypwr]

Congrats to ILuckyGuyI for winning the Belgian Grand Prix Yellow Cap @ Superbru

Congrats to darxiaomi for winning the Belgian GP Challenge

[cryptofrka]

4 races in a row without a win for Red Bull, who would have thought that at the beginning of the season.
With Perez helping out with 26!! points in the last 8 races, their position in the constructors race is under serious threat.

After a few boring years, we might actually have a fantastic end to the season.
Hamilton 2 wins and 3 podiums in the last 3 races as well, Mercedes looks crazy fast all of the sudden.

[ILuckyGuyI]

Congrats to ILuckyGuyI for winning the Belgian Grand Prix Yellow Cap @ Superbru

Congrats to darxiaomi for winning the Belgian GP Challenge

Thank you. It was really unexpected though.    After Russell got disqualified the whole grid shifted by one place. But the interesting thing is that I was going to rise to 3rd place in the first case but now I can't despite the yellow cap. 

But maybe I could turn this into advantage by the free bet coming from this one, let's see. Russell must be really frustrated by the way. He made a very big effort by saving his tyres for 30+ laps. He was clearly the driver of the day.

However being disqualified because of the car weighing 1.5 kg less than the normal level sucks (796.5 kg - 798 kg). Sometimes I don't understand how even top teams can make this kind of mistakes.