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F1, GP of Spa 2020: the official tests seen from the Belgian track

Ferrari experienced a dramatically sporting moment in Spa qualifying, being excluded from the first six rows without rain, accidents or penalties, for the first time since 1985. In Spa the duel for victory is between Mercedes and Verstappen, with the unknown rain. The Belgian GP is live on Sky Sport F1 (channel 201) and Sky Sport Uno (channel 201)

BELGIUM GP, LIVE FROM THE RACE

Realistically ugly e difficult, to guide and comment. Even for the same ferraristi. But the thirteenth and fourteenth time of Charles Leclerc e Sebastian Vettel out in Q2 at Spa photographing the current situation without filters Ferrari. To understand the dramatically sporty moment that the Red is experiencing, one data is enough: the last time both cars missed the first six rows of the grid without rain, accidents, breakdowns or penalties was the 1985 in South Africa.

In disastrous Belgian Saturday the credit goes to the drivers, however, who, despite a car without grip, did two good laps with the certainty of not being able to do more. On the other hand, the fact of not being able to understand in three free sessions weighs on performance how to activate the tires in the right window. And while the opponents, who at this point are no longer even Mercedes and Red Bull but almost all the others, improve Ferrari is even worse than itself simply thinking about 2019.

The team principal Mattia Binotto cI subscribe to these difficulties on the track and in the conditions, aiming for a race to be written, but the awareness is that making miracles with this machine will be impossible. Here and not just here. To mortgage a victory that Mercedes has been missing at Spa Francorchamps for two years because it was a completely different Ferrari who won Lewis Hamilton, who hit his 93rd pole position by trimming half a second a Bottas e Verstappen. But the Dutch is there, ready, along with perhaps the rain, to become once again an incandescent and never predictable variable.

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