The Internet's Best Reactions to the 2022 Belgian Grand Prix 

Love Ferrari their consistency level is insane. They never disappoint me at disappointing me. They even found a new strategy to do so

Albon's P10 is the most heartwarming result this race. Totally deserved it with that tractor of his.

Leclerc's last 2 laps are the perfect epitome of his whole season.

Latifi must be really sad that Mazepin is gone, because now Latifi is hands down the worst driver in F1.

Here to see his pain once more…

Matt at this point is the literal "Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had"

Can someone give Gasly some recognition: started form the pitlane & finished on the points. Epic drive!

could you imagine if we had 10 teams that ran like Ferrari? we'd certainly have more race winners!

Ferrari truly has embodied the "Never let them know your next move."

Actually Leclerc's penalty is a bit of Ferrari's fault. They said they used wrong pit limiter sensor that caused them to go 1km/h over the limit. You switch the sensors between each type of tyres

Imagine pitting for fastest lap, and not only not getting it, but losing a position because of it 🤡

I loved Ocon's double overtake. Almost a recreation of Hakkinen and Shumacher in 2000, 22 years ago

After that race, it's no longer a case of if Verstappen will win a second title in a row, but how many races to spare will the title be sealed for him?

Fun fact - this is only the second time since Bottas' debut in 2013 that Bottas and Hamilton DNF'd in the same race. First one was Austria 2018.

Can you blame the Ferrari strategists if Leclerc was clearly head of stategy today (“question”).

The fact that Charles exceeded pit limit by 1.0 km/h is something :D

Ah, yes, time for my post race dose of how much can Ferrari demoralise Matt.

When Crofty said "Charles sped in the pitlane, where was that speed during the race" 💀

So true about McLaren. Can't believe I remember the days when people were complaining that Ferrari and McLaren were the only teams winning and no one else had a chance. We've come a long way since then.

During qualifying coverage I pointed out to my son that in the Ferrari garage there was half a Pirelli tire cover laying on the floor between the tires. I said that is the perfect sign of the problems at Ferrari - they are not paying attention to the details. Team radio today made it seem like Ferrari had no clue how a Grand Prix worked and what they were doing.

That move for fastest lap at the end was so Ferrari, 5 second penalty was just the icing on the cake. Also kind of expected a meme about Vettel getting Zonta'd down the kemmel straight.

Whenever Lewis used to win you guys put the praise on the car. Now literally the same scenario, max is the best driver at the moment. Sic

Ocon with gasly a sure interesting match up, will probably reignite the force India glory days as they don't get along any better than Esteban did with checo

speeding in the pitlane was due to a burnt sensor for the tear off inc(h)ident

Matt, do you think that Ferrari can still get that 2nd place on constructors by the end of the season, Question 😂

I really love seeing Alex in a healthy place racing wise again. Also Nando's for Horsey and the Gang

What was Ferrari doing with that final pit stop 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Matt in denial of Leclerc finishing 6th during the run down. Don't worry mate he will finish on the podium at least once in the next 8 races... right Ferrari? right?

Valtteri: Nicky where's my birthday gift you promised? Nicky: Here it is! *Nicky takes out Valtteri*

Never been a Ferrari fan but even I'm feeling bad for them this year. I mean, just how wrong can a team get it with a championship winning car??? 🤯

Max was playing on 0% ai

Also Leclerc his fastest lap is over 6 tenth of a second slower than max his fastest lap, while max being on medium tyres while leclerc being on softs, having 12-14 more laps worth of fuel on board and also leclerc had slipstream and drs...

This was my first GP that I could watch live and it did not disappoint

Im literally hoping everytime i watch this, that Haas gets in the social media team championship. You cant win everywhere, but this is good enough 😂

Leclerc discovered his penalty on the interview of the french broadcast, you could see his pain

Thankfully I'm already well past numb to Ferrari mistakes. By the time they started full on strategy soliloquy over team radio, I was already congratulating Max in my head. I'm actually genuinely surprised we managed to even get a 3rd place finish.

They should just give Max the WDC title already 🥲

Toto is an amazing politician. Lobbying for a TD and then changing the narrative when Merc fails to capitalize

I think Ocon can be a Team leader for Alpine, but it was very interesting seeing Ocon and Alonso compete this season, because they were bith driving on a similar Level. But in the future they might even more on different teams

Alex Albon deserves a better drive. I love to see him in a team like Mclaren

Ferrari: Charles we are going to plan D, "Don't win the Race"

Max has now entered the same place Lewis entered in 2014 onwards. He's got the best car, the best team around him, and he's performing at the top of his game. You could say he's the best driver, and I'd probably agree still, but.. you have to bare the car and team in mind too. It's years of work on RB and Verstappens side that has come to this moment and they're riding it. Even if max has a bad race or makes mistakes, he's still in the equivalent of what was the Mercedes not even 2 years ago so, it's likely he will still win the championship. You's see what I'm saying? I think he's still on par with Hamilton, Leclerc, Russel, Alonso, etc. I don't necessarily think he exceeds any of those as much as Hamilton didn't necessarily exceed any other driver in his dominance period. It's more right place right time and not that Verstappens skills alone is why he's winning. Of course he's incredibly talented but it's more than just him. RB is now in that zone and it could continue for a while, but I think it might reset in the next season cause of this car regs is much easier to adapt with than before. I suspect that another team will bounce back next season and challenge them. I can't see RB drastically running away like Merc did.

I’m REALLY hoping that Ricciardo can get Alonso’s seat. I think having a rejuvenated Ric and Ocon on one team would be a solid 1,2 KO punch to McLaren.

Fair play to Ferrari for at least asking Charles this time if he was okay with the hards instead of just putting them on without warning. You won’t see other teams doing that but that’s bc they don’t blunder strategies as often so it shows they’re at least trying to change.

somehow i feel what leclerc is missing compared to a verstappen and hamilton is the overall understanding of strategy and this is not only during the race but also affects his input towards the team the days ahaead of the race, which ultimatively leads to the insecurities whithin the ferrari strategy team we saw the last couple of races. See i think the drivers must be able to communicate very clearly how they feel on each tire, performance whise. and here in spa i think you saw, that leclerc is missing out on that. There was long discussions with him about the tire options, but none with sainz and i think it is because they knew sainz would speak up immediatly if he was not the same oppinion. they were not with leclerc.

I still don’t understand why Hamilton said Alonso was in his blind spot. Did he think Alonso was going to disappear or just give him the position without a fight? Hamilton’s racecraft is terrible and we were reminded of it today. He was clearly flattered by the most dominant car in F1 history from 2014-2021.

Ocon may well be the most underrated driver of all time. Not because he’s the next Schumacher or anything, just because everyone seems to think he’s garbage despite the number of great drives he’s had.

For the love of God, tell Tommy to take it easy with the Onesie. Switch it up for the good of a competitive F1 season.

Verstappen isn't driving to win the championship, he's driving to win each and every remaining race. He's gunning for most wins in a season

I don't think Ferrari really did anything wrong, as far as the team is concerned. Glad to see they're actually asking Leclerc for his opinions now, but his engineer sounded like a kicked dog.

Ross Brawn: Michael we need 18 qualifying laps from you. Michael “Thank you”. The disparity of Ferrari then and now summed up.

It's sad how consistent the "Imma now watch the internet's best reaction to see Matt's pain" vibe is

How TF can F1 give Hamilton a warning for skipping the med-tent? They left him to fight his own fire, hitchhike for a ride, then ultimately force him to walk several km's back to the paddock! If they cared about his health status, they'd have given him a ride.

I think we must start accepting that not all Leclerc problems are Ferrari's fault. He's been making costly mistakes all by himself, too.

Tired of Latifi causing problems. Tired of the same order at the end of every race. This year started so strong and now it's just as boring as every year except last year. I hope something changes for next year because this is boring.

I think Ocon has the potential of being a team leader, not just yet, but if continues his form then yeah.

There’s no way Ferrari could of took fastest lap. Max’s pace was overwhelming.

Leclerc has to start making calls. Carlos clearly takes decisions with the team and with Leclerc the strategy just happens. Super talented driver but it seems he misses still some ingredients for the complete package.

I was on the track where bottas, we all sung Happy Birthday to him , hopefully he appreciated it!😂

It was kind of a boring race - but my word, Verstappen was crushing it out there. I've been watching Formula 1 since the Hill, Irvine, Schumacher days, and Verstappens performance today was one of the most dominant ones, I've ever seen. It was a kind of a bizarre theatre. Shout out to Albon, Vettel, Gasly and Ocon as well.

Did this also remind you a little bit like Brazil 2021, in which Lewis was in another league, just like Max today?

Ocon's double overtake,brought me back to Schumi,Zonta time, brilliant move, truly knows the car and his ability to pull it off.

ocon is definitely a team leader, he performs very well almost every race and just like today he has some really clean overtakes

To be honest, even though im a ferrari fan, i really think that Verstappen could really become at least a 3 time world champion at this level of skill.

Ocon has to lead Alpine next year, otherwise they risk pissing off three drivers in the matter of weeks...they may as well jack it in!

Imma say this, but pitting for fastest lap wasn't a bad move, they're losing by such a big margin that they need any and all points they can get, so fair play. That was a gamble worth whatever risk it carried

Would love to see max try a last to first, not do any qualifying and see what he can do

Another sport.....Lacrosse. You just missed the U23 Men's and Women's World Cup in Limerick. England finished 6th and Ireland 7th.

I think that Ocon havn't had the chance to show that he can be a teamleader. He have always been the younger less experianced driver with teammates like Perez, Ricciardo and Alonso

We all know Ricciardo is better than Ocon, he proved that in 2020, but Alpine's ego won't let them forgive Daniel!

I always thought that an f1 driver was unshakeable in their will to win, being able to come back from crushing defeats, like Hakkinen coming back from his major blunder in Italy in 1999... But i honestly think that, at least for this season, Leclerc is just defeated, and unable to come back from it mentally... The amount of distrust in the team for their bad calls, his own unforced mistakes, and the general unreliability and lack of pace in the car compared to Red Bull might have just pushed him to a point where he simply can't keep it together and give 100%, only ever being able to go at 96%...

The rocket league meme I originally seen posted from Battery Bottas. Whether he was the OG tweeter I don’t know but I got the notification from him and he had this pic and soon after everyone was using it.

This is for the hate mob people Hamilton admits fault, apologizes and refused to fuel media hate Alonso respond by accepting the apology, saying it was a racing incident and said those comments were made at the heat of the moment Both moved on and you should too

Love Ferrari Crazy Strategy Till Now, Even IN the pAst They Have Many WDC HOlder in the Ferrari Team, they all still cant help Ferrari PLan. Now we Have MasterBClownPLan what you Expect it, if you have that leader in your Seat, what can you do and what you want the result

Even at the beginning you can see how much pain Matt is in

Redbull didn't destroy Ferrari. Ferrari is doing them a favour and destroying themselves 🤣😂🤣💀

As soon as Alonso came around turn one on the second to last lap I just rolled my eyes and said FFS

Is it just me or Sainz seems performing better than Leclerc lately? Sure, Sainz can’t really do anything about RB speed, but Leclerc just make vital blunder after blunder

The new lighter chassis in the RB18 is working well for them! Dominant in practice, Dominant in qualifying and DOMINANT in the race!! What a superb race from max. Fastest lap, driver of the day and he won.

F1 races are getting bored, aren’t they? Yeah, because ‘that Guy’ from The Netherlands (‘where is that?’) is the best and winning everything. NEVER heard that in the seven years Lewin won everyting

Ocon is a team leader. Needs more consistency but he's incredibly quick

Ocon should be driver of the day, as it is not often you see a driver overtake two cars at once but the same driver doing it twice. Way to go Ocon.

It’s sad to see how unlucky Leclerc is. Out of all the things, Max his tear off caused Charles brakes to smoke and Ferrari as always with their amazing strategy.. I really hope that we will see more battles between Max and Charles in the future. Oh and what a race for Albono!

"He was in my blindspot" where exactly did Lewis expect Fernando to be considering Lewis had just passed him? Do cars just disappear after they get passed? I'm not usually a Lewis hater but that's such a daft excuse.

Hamilton fanboys told me Max wouldn't win the race... oh, the delicious salt 🧂 😋

"Valtteri it's James we should retire the car" Bottas: why? Wait, what are u doing here? James: because Hamilton retire. I'm sorry valtteri, it's quite habbit

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FIA feeling like they can warn Lewis for not going straight to the medical centre is outrageous. If you’re that bothered why don’t you send a vehicle to pick him up instead of making him walk. You weren’t so bothered about his health whilst he was walking back were you.

I think Ocon is absolutely a team leader compare him to some of the other young drivers and he’s really doing quite well. I think with some assurance that he doesn’t have to worry about a drive every year he will do great.

HAAS honestly don't care about the F1 championship, all they want is to defend the Social Media Team Championship.

Lewis should of gone to specsavers 👍👍

You can listen to Leclerc's radio all race long if you have an F1TV membership. It's only $80 a year. I really like that I can pick any car I want and watch from the camera on the car and hear all radio messages.

Adding pain to pain: the tear off that forced Leclerc to put under safety car also damaged a sensor which caused him to speed in the pit lane.

Dirty hammy at it again tried the same trick he did on Max when he landed underneath Max but came off worse serves the little sh-t right why he didn't get points on his licence I don't know up FIA ar-s Alonso comment was spot on

In my opinion, max has the ability to destroy a lot of records. The 9 in a row by vettel could be broken this year 103 wins could be broken by the end of Max's career 7 championships could be equalled by max or even beaten Most wins in a season Most fastest laps Largest gap between first and second in the drivers championship Most championships in a row (if red bull stays at the front)

I refuse to believe that “plan G “ is the 7th possible plan - I reckon that the letter must stand for something as like a mental trigger for a strategy like “Go hard till the end” (obvs not that in this case) but surely he drivers aren’t recalling 7 plus plans 😂

I’m sorry for your pain Matt but let me say you guys are awesome. Thx for the content.

This year I was hoping it wouldn’t rain, next year I’ll be praying for rain!

Why is every british person so keen on ignoring Hamilton's heinous driving? Perez slightly squeezes a ferrari for a second with no consequence and Jolyon Palmer went on a two minute long rant about how as a driver you just never squeeze another driver, meanwhile Hamilton tries to kill Alonso and everyone is just like 'oh that was unfortunate'.

Since Liberty arrival, F1 is more a story than a sport, for audience's sake. Ferrari is the designated villain for this season.