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Gasly didn't feel safe at start of wet sprint race

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium -- Pierre Gasly said visibility was so bad at the start of Saturday's Belgian Grand Prix sprint race that he no longer felt safe. After a delay of 30 minutes, Saturday's sprint race, which was scheduled for 14 laps, got underway behind the safety car before being green lit for racing at the end of lap five. The idea behind delaying the start was to allow the 20 cars to clear water from the circuit as they circulated behind the safety car, but when racing got underway Gasly, who started sixth for Alpine, said he still felt as though the conditions were not safe. "I could not see a thing," he said. "If Oscar [Piastri] or Max [Verstappen] was in the...
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