BREAKING NEWS: George Russell DISQUALIFIED from Belgian GP, Lewis Hamilton declared the winner

[@rikers263]

Friend of mines who works in race circuit said also a light car, burn less tire. Instead of tire change in 30 laps for example a light car can go 35-40

[@johnmurray587]

Spot on. As an ex-cycling racer every gram (0.035274 ounces) counts, especially going up hill or accelerating. You might think that 1.5kg (3.3lb) is trivial, but it is absolutely massive in F1. The stewards had no option but to disqualify.

[@Sha-yw6fb]

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[@ratanvhiregoudar1395]

Fuel doesn't matter at all.. it's the dry weight that matters.. and they do it to all drivers, drain the fuel and then weigh the cars.. if dry weight of George's car is underweight atleast compared to Lewis' then surely it would have made some impact why Hamilton couldn't overtake him .. Also sitting behind him in dirty air .. Russel drove a heroic drive though, but between the cars of almost same pace, underweight does matter ..

[@johnmurray587]

Yep. Ted Kravitz covered that in his post race notebook walk - you cannot use fuel as ballast.

[@janbielefeld1132]

whats really going on with mercedes and toto wolf. one pit stop for russel and 2 pit stop lewis.... Mercedes want russel as no 1 driver cause of leaving lewis , but its miss calculated by wolf...

[@Matt04108]

The crazy thing is that what happened to him is that they weigh the cars with the tyres on. Because his tyres were totally worn out, he was under weight. Surely they change the regulations so that they weigh the cars without the Pirelli supplied tyres.

[@tylerhernandez5234]

Techinally Merc only loses 18 points since they still got 25 points for a win, just no points for second. Still sucks for George

[@gary3074]

Good call…

[@johnmath4105]

1,5 KILO DIFEERENCE AND MERCEDES DIDNT KNOW WEIRD THIS DIFFERENCE HELP RUSEL TO WIN MERCEDES SECOND FAULT IS THAT SABOTAGE HAMMILTON WITH STRATEGY BUT HAMMILTON WIN HE DESERVED

[@Sha-yw6fb]

So the Goat rises❤

[@DewkChronic]

they changed a bunch of things before the race and might be where the weight difference went.

[@arielleandrist]

F1 huh? How civilised.. And coverting back into your freedom units too lol Nice to see your coverage of SVG, we don't see too much of it in NZ! I actually know Cheese (his Dad) ;P