Spa F1

2016 Spa F1

Spa F1 has to be the best track of the season, and I'm so glad that I can finally say I have been. Spa is well known for bad weather but this year seems to be the exception, and if I'm honest the heat was brutal day and night. We decided to do the free pit walk for all 3 day ticket holders in the hope I would meet Lewis Hamilton, so we started at the end of the pit at the HAAS garage. After some pushing and armpit sniffing we arrived the AMG Pertronas garage, and I think I could've stayed there all day watching his mechanics working on his car. After some time and countless pictures of the same thing, the crowd began to get excited and my heart skipped a beat "OMG it must be Lewis" so I turned around and to my disappointment -  it was Nico Rosberg!

It was inevitable at some point in the season Lewis would need to take some penalties for new engines. After FP1, 2 & 3 I discovered that he had a 55 place grid penalty for three engine changes during the weekend - Surely this was tactical, and not a mechanical issue?

Race day arrived and in all honesty I didn't hold much hope that he would be able to score a single point. To everyones amazement he managed to get through the chaos up into fifth place on the eighth lap. It was then that the thought came that he might actually win this race, but after an amazing race he managed to finish third. What a result for the weekend and he now continues his fight for a fourth championship, with three new engines. This really is hammer time!