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‘Nobody should feel right calling that a race'
Formula 1 needs to have a hard look at what it considers a race after two laps behind the Safety Car at Spa yielded a classification, and saw points awarded. That's the opinion of McLaren CEO Zak Brown. Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit was a washout, or at least it should have been as the rain bucketed down, rendering the circuit undrivable. Race Control, though, was determined to get a result in and sent the drivers out for the mandatory laps needed for a classification and for half points to be awarded. However, those laps all took place behind the Safety Car meaning there was no passing, and in fact there was no racing. While Brown concedes it was a...
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