00:00Completely different layout to Budapest as well in terms of the top speeds and the length of the straights.
00:07Hopefully, I'm not sure waiting much longer what that will accomplish.
00:12Personally, I can't see why not, because the event has not started.
00:17This is the crash.
00:18Yeah, it's the first time I've seen it because I was on the grid, but...
00:23It was full wet as well, wasn't it? It's not like he was taking a risk on Inters or anything.
00:28Yeah, so he's at the plane up onto the kerbs.
00:33The car's taken a slide off the back of the kerbs.
00:37And, I mean, the nose box...
00:39... absolutely completely been obscured by a cloud.
00:43We used to start races in these conditions.
00:45It's three sets of full wets for qualifying in the race, the weekend indeed.
00:50They do get an extra set because it was...
00:52Inters because it was a wet practice session.
00:55They all have a brand new set of wets available for the Grand Prix.
01:00And, one of those sets of wet weather tyres available is going to be put to use now as Bert Mylander leads the cars away on the formation lap.
01:11Now, if the formation lap has started behind the safety car, the number of race laps will be reduced by the number of laps carried out by the safety car minus one.
01:21So expect to see the lap counts ticking down when the cars cross the line at the ends of this lap.
01:28And that might be in quite a while's time.
01:31Because look how slowly and carefully the cars are having to take the source of the run down to Eau Rouge and up Bratton.
01:39Yeah, the F1 cars will aquaplane more readily at this speed and in these conditions than the safety car.
01:45Safety car weighing around 1800 kilograms.
01:48Already can't see anything burnt.
01:51Smoke flares that are being let off by the Verstappen fans.
02:00Technically look all a little bit soggy.
02:02Now the fans on the banks are around this track.
02:05We're on board with Lando Norris now.
02:07It's pretty awful.
02:09I can barely see the car in front until the minute.
02:11Lando Norris starting down in 15th place after the crash yesterday.
02:16He was taken to the medical centre of Exeter Hospital for precautionary checks on his arm.
02:22Glad to say he was cleared of any serious injury fit to race here this afternoon.
02:28But he got a five place grid penalty because they had to change his gearbox.
02:32The gearbox did not survive the impact into the barriers at Radeon.
02:36The rest of the car did or the rest of the car that they needed to did.
02:40And Lando Norris into the race but with a new gearbox that gets a five place grid penalty.
02:45As a result, a lot of three drivers carrying penalties.
02:48Lance Stroll with a five place grid penalty and Valtteri Bottas too.
02:52Quite a bit of aquaplaning as well.
02:55And Lando saying to Rachel Brooks in our build up to this race that he was complaining about aquaplaning
03:01before the red flag and the crash yesterday in qualifying.
03:05And he was already saying that it was aquaplaning at that stage as well.
03:08I did get a reply from Michael Massey.
03:10No.
03:11You can't put the car back in the race if he fits it.
03:15Right.
03:16Safety car there, Martin.
03:17I think he was trying to stamp on the brakes a bit to get some temperature.
03:20Yeah, he's trying to light up the ridder tyres.
03:22Yeah, mate.
03:23I can't see anything up to the route.
03:25I'm going to show absolutely nothing into turn five.
03:29I can't even see if this happened red light.
03:34So, Wyatt, it looks better for us than it does for the drivers.
03:39I'll explain why.
03:40From a high camera angle, you look down through the rooster tail spray.
03:44So you're looking through a few metres of water.
03:47When you're behind another car, you're looking through a hundred metres of spray.
03:52They are not going to start the race.
03:55Start procedure suspended.
03:57I think they're going to come back onto the grid again and sit and wait
04:02because it looks like the rain has got a bit heavier as well.
04:05The pictures you're seeing now, it is, as Martin said, like driving in fog out there.
04:10And you're not going to be putting your foot down and driving at 180 miles an hour in thick fog.
04:16And it is very thick out there.
04:18It's a red flag.
04:19They were considered, they were all considered formation laps there.
04:23Because the two hours hasn't started yet, has it on the computer here?
04:27No, it hasn't.
04:28The clock hasn't started.
04:29I was a bit surprised.
04:30I thought after they finished the first lap, the two hour countdown would have begun.
04:35And it's saying start procedure.
04:39I agree with you.
04:41There's more spray, isn't there?
04:43Definitely spray.
04:44Yeah, the rain is still pretty relentless outside the window here.
04:49Two hours, 52 minutes, the delay, since the initial formation lap.
04:58I'm finding the cards, but when you've done more than two laps, then you get half points.
05:05The classification that can be given.
05:08So two of 39 laps then, so it'll be the first one because it doesn't...
05:13You hit a ball of spray and there's 19 cars behind you.
05:17You wouldn't want a second guess what was going to happen.
05:20You always say nerve.
05:21That's advantage.
05:23Right at the front.
05:24If we don't go racing properly, then that would suit Max Verstappen down to the ground.
05:29He did all the hard work yesterday in qualifying to take pole position.
05:32And he'll be rewarded for that as we red flag the race with a race win if we can't get going again.
05:41And with two laps, two full laps completed, race control has now decided.
05:47He is very good at draining away.
05:50Let's see.
05:53So the rush is on once again to bring out all the associated kit and caboodle.
06:00As Lewis Hamilton climbs out of his Mercedes, the kerfuffle that we wanted to see on the track is now taking...
06:09Set procedures every time the car comes to the pit lane.
06:12The easy ups go out.
06:13The systems get plugged in.
06:15The radiator cooling fans are in.
06:17You can see the McLaren here in front of me.
06:19Lando Norris' car.
06:20They're pumping dry ice through the radiators.
06:22So they're following all the standard procedures.
06:25And I...
06:26But...
06:27I have to say, Crofty, just there's a sense of inevitability about it.
06:31Just a couple of people I spoke to as they were running out of the pit lane.
06:34Here this weekend, we predicted that it was going to be a little bit miserable.
06:38Not quite as miserable as it turned out to be.
06:41But, you know, we had foreseen this potential.
06:45And, yeah, it's always disappointing when you're a racing driver and you don't get to race.
06:50And the points of this victory as he heads off to Holland.
06:54Every point counts.
06:56All times.
06:57Had that one lap to make it work.
06:59And, boy, did he make it work.
07:01And waves and smiles, too, from Lewis Hamilton.
07:05Get sprayed.
07:06The racing didn't really happen.
07:07It's been a long, long afternoon here at Spa.
07:08Thank you so much for your caffeine throughout it all.
