The Funniest Tweets from the 2024 Belgian Grand Prix

[@edlib1651]

"Logan, atleast you still have a seat" - sentences that didn't age well

[@crunks420]

Carlos signs!

[@patrick8167-d2u]

Think Matt meant for after the break - they've been discussing when exactly he'll have to crawl away to Indycar

[@xxlarrytfvwxx9531]

What happened?

[@sheldoniusRex]

​@@xxlarrytfvwxx9531 Carlos signed for next year. Nothing happened to Logan today.

[@YAX.racing]

*Mercedes signs Sargeant*

[@xtheamazingax]

Sam Cooper on PlanetF1 said this: Team Orders won’t cost Lando Norris the title. His poor starts will. He’s had more rubbish starts than Tiametmarduk.

[@Federalwaywebbs]

I came here to say this. He must improve or he isn’t The Man

[@gameofender4463]

@@Federalwaywebbs It looks like he can’t. I hope I’m wrong though. But he’s got no excuse when you remember that George has had as much time as Lando in F1 and is far ahead of Norris in driver ability. Charles, he’s had one more season but even so, the Leclerc of last season is better than Norris of this season. And Oscar too. 2nd season in F1, and already challenging Lando for team leader at McLaren.

[@thepeacekpr]

Not the Bin Daly. Love you, Ben.

[@sviniciusbraga]

Lando never had a realistic chance to begin with. Max and Red Bull are more vulnerable recently, but Verstappen usually finished in front of Lando even when he can't win.

[@hornetgamer8980]

Sky Sports: Rough on Lewis but you can't take anything away from George after that drive. FIA: Hold my beer.

[@KJ28554]

Matt: “Right time to post funniest tweets” **Checo announced as staying till end of the season** Matt: “Gods sake”

[@alam5055]

Where is this announcement? I couldn't find anything on official Checo socials, Red Bull socials or F1 socials

[@Cruton2025]

That is truly stunning 😂

[@geniferteal4178]

It's a mixed blessing. They need his money to pay for the damage he caused to his car. 😢

[@tvna231]

@@alam5055 On Sky Sports F1

[@anngo4140]

@@alam5055 Horner announced it to the factory

[@withachance]

4:42 leaving in the full 10 second brain fart is top quality content

[@fidan2fast]

Looks like Matt rebooted

[@ronaldvanderstam8662]

Now we know why Toto wasn't smiling at the end of the race.... he knew Russels's car would be checked....

[@davyt0247]

Well yeah, they check everyone’s car.

[@scsutton1]

4:46 Matt.exe has stopped working.

[@bogaczew]

it has not

[@Becky_Cooling]

Try turning it off and back on again

[@flamingburitto]

13:20 "Atleast he still has a seat". Well not anymore...

[@One_Guy]

was just going to write this LOL!!!!!

[@soundscape26]

...till the end of the season

[@LP24captain]

I’m a NASCAR fan, they were on their Olympic break this past weekend. With INDYCAR also off, the Belgian Grand Prix was my only source of motorsports action. It did not disappoint. Also, these memes are hilarious! Great video!

[@Model_Student]

8:18 to be clear, that is pronounced “Could my strategy BE more generic?”

[@drewmagnet]

Wolverine is going to invest in McLaren now because they have their own huge Jack Man!

[@_mickmccarthy]

4:47 - I had the Windows XP shutdown sound play in my head there

[@8jof544]

In mine sounded the old internet modem connecting to the web

[@FireStormHR]

When talking about suspicious, Totos reaction to the 1 2 was way too mild for his character. He probably was already briefed about a then possible weight miscalculation.

[@antardas6734]

Or maybe he knew that he would have a difficult conversation with Lewis to why he wasn’t given the option of the one stop because Lewis deserved the win.

[@MarcosCodas]

Russell wasn’t given the option for a one-stop, he asked for it.

[@B.A.GarGar]

​@@MarcosCodasnot rlly.merc and both drivers talked about it before the race.the only thing different btw them was that hamilton was leading the race with the correct strategy and russsel needed to gamble if he wanted to finish the race in top 5(on pure pace wasn t the case). Also russel got every time the right info about what drivers are on the racetrack not like lewis😂

[@Gleepglurp]

​@@antardas6734Lewis could have asked to do the same...

[@mrebear9758]

​@@Gleepglurp not really, he was covering LeClerc

[@septopus3516]

"the cars have outgrown Spa" Never truer words

[@blackjacktrial]

They've outgrown tarmac and each other. They might as well be 75% the width of the track and just park up most of the time because passing is nearly impossible in these cars (too big, too planted, too flat through corners to allow overtaking). The cars need to be smaller and squirrelly like the lower formulas to allow overtaking - if you can't have mistakes, and you can block the whole track up, good luck anyone trying to pass.

[@Alex-md6bu]

They naturally have too much downforce, remember when talking about the new aero for 21 and they said how you need the rear wing to provide the slipstream to cars behind, now the underfloor is providing so much downforce they are running tiny rear wings meaning the tow is not significant enough to make for good racing, I know they’re changing rules next year so not much need for any changes but they should be looking into reducing the floor size/ Venturi tunnel size in order to reduce downforce and encourage the teams to run larger wings again

[@rfldss89]

Have they actually? The issues with with passing at spa this year were mostly related to the nerfed DRS zone

[@CRCarGuy_11]

Is no one going to mention Oscar's comment "clean air is king" when told he had purple sector I feel that was a shot at Norris for the Dutch GP

[@dizzyduck44]

You know if you are going to have a pop at someone, you’d better make sure you don’t make a mistake yourself.

[@andrewhazlewood4569]

Boy George, “Do you really want to hurt me? Do you really want to make me cry?”

[@stevewogan]

Surprised there wasn't any meme about Red Bull dragging Perez out of the way as soon as Max arrived on his rear. It looked like one of those cartoon moments where the cane hook drags someone off stage.

[@LockOn0705]

Interviewer : what do you like to do in your free time? Me : crying in the corner Interviewer : What? Me : Im a Ferrari Fan Oh.

[@kjell278]

These 1,5 kg are like 3 seconds in a race distance so i think its fair to say his win was at risk if he was at the weigtlimit

[@vladtepes97]

the drivers think the driver title is the important one, the mechanics think the constructor title is the important one.

[@tuxness]

Being included in this segment means I can die happy now. Thank you, P1.

[@johnhunter4465]

I think if Mercedes had told Lewis about George’s strategy, he would of definitely pushed harder in the last stint, especially knowing how much tyres they had left.

[@bram4909]

13:23 right after Sainz got confirmed for Williams next year

[@Shwonak]

According to Lewis Hamilton's interview on Graham Norton a few years ago, Russell's car being even a kilogram underweight could mean gaining up to 2 seconds over the course of the race, which absolutely would have changed the outcome of the race.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

After learning his car was underweight, that explains why Lewis was having a hard time catching up to George during the race.

[@matthewm.1598]

Following and passing in dirty air is more difficult than just being technically faster. Lewis's newer tires already meant he was faster when he caught Russell. Being slightly faster still wouldn't mean much.

[@Shwonak]

@@matthewm.1598 The car was underweight for the entire race so it's not just the final battle for 1st where he would have gained an advantage.

[@3d_aeroworks]

"It's going to cost them the constructors championship" .. absolute savage... I love it! Don't stop now!

[@mrbismarck]

4:42 - Matt's brain one-stopping.

[@the_dented_NPC]

Fun fact- no one was lapped in this race. every team is so bunched up

[@muhidnaveed2617]

well its a long lap so thats smth else to consider but still impressive

[@jeremysiegelman9131]

checo was actually lapped 3 times but horner paid off the TV directors

[@flaviananton9070]

It's the longest track on the calendar, with only 44 laps.. so it kinda makes sense.

[@revan6289]

MAT REBOOTED AT 4:46 😆😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 STOP USING WINDOWS 95 BRUV

[@95mushroom]

3:53 Was about to cook him for "pay rise" too [not pay raise], but seems that's an English thing...

[@revan6289]

@@95mushroom

[@SheldonRoachford]

Im pretty sure Mercedes knew they were screwed with George's car by the end of the race?! The fact that they didn't drain all the fuel as per usual, tells you pretty much all you need to know!😂😂😂

[@joshn1678]

Yeah, that's super shady. Karma for fking Lewis over, they didn't tell Lewis a single time that he was going to have to pass George. He literally found out when he saw George up ahead on lap 39 lol.

[@abigailcooling6604]

Yeah, leaving in exactly enough fuel to meet the required weight is a bit sus... almost as if they knew... and cars finish races with missing bodywork, work out tyres etc all the time and still meet the weight...

[@2Fast4Mellow]

But what made the FIA re-check the car? Or do they always weigh the cars twice?

[@SheldonRoachford]

@@2Fast4Mellow I'm guessing something didn't add up! I'm not sure what the actual procedure are, but I genuinely believe that Mercedes knew they had a problem on their hands.

[@emc5890]

These people that say Lewis “inherited” a win. Nah the win was his work and he just got it back

[@teufox842]

Well he didnt win on track. And we will never know if he had passed Russel with the marginal higher weight he should have had. Obviously that sucks but to say Lewis would have won if Russels car would have been 1.5kg heavier is just speculation. That doesnt take anything away from Lewis Hamilton. Its not like he didnt deserve to win.

[@emc5890]

@@teufox842 you also can’t tell me a heavier car over 44 laps wouldn’t have been slower with more tyre deg? He prob wouldn’t have been able to pull it off to begin with. What we DO know was how Lewis qualified and raced the majority of the race. It was his win. Russel tried something and it backfired

[@teufox842]

@@emc5890 I never said that he wouldnt have been marginably slower and have slightly higher tyre deg. Would that make his strategy impossible? Who knows! Would Hamilton be able to overtake him, while overtaking proofed pretty hard the whole race? Who knows! You also said it yourself "He prob wouldn't have been able to pull it off to begin with". So you yourself agree that there is no way to know for sure. I agree that this sucks. And thats why there is no alternative to a DSQ whenever a car doesnt meet the technical regulations. But you cant just say "Russel tried something and it backfired". Because we have no idea why his car was underweight. It may well be that his car would also be underweight with a 2 stop strategy. Lewis drove a great race and managed to beat every other 2 stop strategy driver on track. It doesnt take anything away from him to say he inherited the win. Because that is what happened. And we will never know if he would have won if Russels car would have been 1.5kg heavier.

[@emc5890]

@@teufox842 omg an essay… lol ok no sport celebrates a “win” done with illegal circumstances. Do you also say “we just don’t know they wouldn’t win if they didn’t dope”? believe what you believe. We’ll agree to disagree.

[@jacobeloi1125]

​​@@teufox842 1.5kg have proven in F1 that you can gain 4/5 tenths a lap... And you thought it was skill that George held up Lewis? No doubt George had a good drive but it wouldn't have been possible without the weight loss. Lewis couldn't even over take him with slipstream plus drs plus fresh tires, that it's self was dodgy from the get go as in the same car non of the less... Quit making excuses. I don't know you and people why complaining and giving people praises for accomplishing something that was impossible to achieve unless the car was illegal (which it was) Lewis win by racing and by legality

[@seanpowell7770]

Thank you for leaving the pause of you figuring the word out in.

[@musshonest871]

George was faster with the less weight. It’s cheating and that’s why he was disqualified simple.

[@beckyp7058]

Merc definitely knew something was up. Compare George's elation to Toto's reaction after the race. I've always liked George, and this was heartbreaking, almost as much as when he crashed on his penultimate lap the other year (forgive me, i can't remember which circuit). He'll have more wins (that he gets to keep!) in the future, I'm sure.

[@THETWUAN-r3u]

I've never had so many awkward podiums in the first half of the season

[@strange_jason]

1.5kg under the weight limit at the end of the race makes a massive difference in both tyre deg and total race time - at the end of the day he gained a few seconds over a race distance and that's the diff between p1 and p3 (or even p4 seeing a Leclerc wasn't that far behind). So a bit of a fuckup on Merc's behalf just like running Lewis' car too low at the US GP last year - it's marginal things but it makes a massive diff at the end of the race.

[@Fiasco3]

Alex Albon is the all-time tyre-whisperer. They had to pit him last lap, because he couldn't finish on his original tyres.

[@coletyler148]

the irony so matt saying at least you still have a seat

[@buzzkillroza499]

Lando No-RiZZ. "Oh, I tried to pass Max once and I decided it's enough" 😢😢

[@JOYDEEPPRAMANIK]

Crystal Horner is the constant 😂

[@ehjhey7]

I kid you not, it took me only half a second less for me to remember the word "Consolation" as well. Thanks for the brain fart Matt 🤣

[@chimanski2040]

"low expectations means you cant be disappointed" Thats what I tell myself aswell. If you saw a guy in Sauber merch sitting at busstop in the TV-feed, that was me! I saw about 4 other people with Sauber merch in the entire crowd for all 3 days hahaha

[@RahulShah87]

With all of this talk we're missing just how amazing Lewis' drive was. Those first few laps were incredible. That start was magical. He controlled the race.

[@gameofender4463]

Regardless of what happened, that was an incredible result from George. Fully deserved the win, but his time will come. He proved his point, if anyone is going to be the heir to Hamilton, it’ll be George.

[@benphillips9774]

He did do well, but I don't think he would have done so well without the weight advantage

[@josiahboatengmyrie]

He didn’t deserve the win he wasn’t faster than anyone didn’t overtake anyone he took a gamble got lucky end ended up getting himself disqualified because of the lack of rubber on his tyres

[@gameofender4463]

@@benphillips9774I think it wouldn’t of made a difference with how he was holding the lead. But at minimum, he’d of still been on the podium as Leclerc was nowhere near.

[@gameofender4463]

@@josiahboatengmyrie Yes he did.

[@godusopp2752]

@@gameofender4463 he was holding the lead because he was racing an illegal car, idk why that's so hard to understand, the car was literally lighter than everyone elses

[@BennyBoy_Alpha]

13:26 About that…. 😂

[@mata1813]

8:20 oh man! It’s just not right without chandler’s tone

[@phoebesmith8154]

I had to do a double take for that spin. Was so weird lol

[@RobbertsTravelGuides]

Awesome i made it into the video 🤣

[@jonlee6794]

4:48 Weird watching Matt have a stroke in real time…

[@annoyed-intern]

That’s why have the pod after. Plus all the gifs and memes, you get spoiled from twitter and Reddit by the time this comes along.

[@zulubunsen9067]

I think the funniest thing about Checo's race was that in his post-race interview his prime excuse was that there was higher degradation than they expected. While every single other driver talked about the deg being lower than anyone expected (especially George).

[@mkmn]

It’s not funny when even max has been complaining about the same issue defending Perez. The car flys on hards but not on the mediums. It’s not a driver issue it’s a set up and strategy issue.

[@joshn1678]

Lol, I was literally saying "Consolation Matt, consolation!"

[@bradjasperson134]

I giggled a little too much when Lewis said he "felt something between his legs" on the team radio. Can we pretend someone did a shot of that, then Yakko from Animaniacs saying "Goodnight everybody!"

[@slaphands7703]

Ah yes. If Redbull had a light car we wouldn’t hear the end of it.

[@synysterscot5827]

Been watching a lot of endurance racing recently, slowly been working through the 24hr of Spa which has been full of action. Got my hopes up thinking this F1 race would be amazing. I fell asleep before the second round of pitstops and still haven't looked at the full results yet.

[@kasheppard503]

I think not enough has been said about the nerfing of the DRS zone up Kemmel Straight. Shortening it by 75 meters definitely impacted the ability to pass in that section.

[@mferris72]

Hell yes on Danny Ric in the Red Bull again!

[@lukaszbarszczak]

That stop to look for a word was GOLD 😂

[@chrisgallagher1317]

Should of had more paint on the car 😂

[@JR-uy2nd]

I have to say, this was a very good race. It started with 3 cars side by side, and end up with the podium winners, finishing within 1.5 seconds (with or without Russel).

[@Good_Horsey]

Say what you will, Lando has the most consistent starts.

[@BPBomber]

I think the jackman’s given name is Hugh.

[@MarianoLu]

Nicely done 😂

[@blackjacktrial]

Based on his height, maybe Huge Jackman.

[@King_Ears]

Ricciardo had the swagger of a man who knows he is in a RB post summer break

[@SpencerLay-s3z]

When this is your only job you should probably take an extra hour and record another podcast when a driver is disqualified

[@kylem324]

George didn’t do his Jesus pose getting out of the car. Probably changed everything.

[@logicmaster756]

WHen i saw a Russel win i new something was going to happen

[@zpir1t427]

i got to go to this race! was my first one and a roller coaster of emotions as a max fan!

[@JohnSmith-p6b]

You should do a video ranking the current F1 drivers-I want a full list 1-20 on their opinioms

[@ogTryhard21]

They kind of do this. Every weekend they do driver ratings based on their weekends, and during the halfway points and the end of the season, they go over their "rankings" based on the average scores the drivers have been given.

[@jarnivanwaesberge3984]

I would love nothing more than seeing Daniel back in the Red Bull. Give him a chance, let's see how well he does. And if he underperforms, then at least Daniel + Max is a very entertaining driver pairing :D

[@AudreyH48]

I've tuned in slightly later and a couple things have not aged well already 😂

[@jdbb3gotskills]

4 weeks without a race 😢 depression at its finest 😂

[@31Blaize]

This year the break is filled with Olympics - worth a watch, surely!

[@zlaede]

4:42 : A native English speaker forgetting words? Ah yes I have find my excuse. - not a native English speaker, 2024

[@horger89]

Unpopular opinion but I think George got really lucky with risking the 1 stop and actually working out, otherwise he wasn’t in the mix during the race even for the podium.

[@philparker1278]

100%

[@8jof544]

4:45 Matt's 56k modem rebooted

[@ThunderApache]

I love to see Daniel Ricciardo to Red Bull Racing.

[@eEnzo0]

Matt, there's nothing to do with the fuel burnt. The car has to weigh 798 kilos without any fuel! I thought you knew that, lol

[@famecoy]

Perez still has all that sweet billionaire money supporting his team, right?

[@jaysgamesroom4853]

As an aussie who adores Danny, I think Yuki deserves a chance at the rb seat more. But won't lie, I'll be happy to see him in the seat and quietly hoping he can turn his career around.

[@creekboi7]

Its a feature on the camera gimbal. Im pretty sure thats not the usual big broadcast cam that spins. But if it is, hats off to that wizard.

[@DenDave_]

Its kinda ironic that George's chosen strategy and genius drive are also what led to the DQ, i suppose theres no way the team could've prepared for that.

[@o161Gunners]

New camera? The quality is really good!

[@abigailcooling6604]

About Russel's dsq: leaving in exactly enough fuel to meet the required weight is a bit sus... almost as if they knew... and cars finish races with missing bodywork, work out tyres etc all the time and still meet the weight...

[@marco52631]

4:46 Matt.exe has encountered an error... Rebooting. 🤣

[@lgc9652]

Gutted for George because that was an incredible drive, took control of the strategy and the team had trust in him and he pulled it off. Fair play to him

[@Amm17ar]

Tommys disappearing more and more often like my dad did before one day he went out for milk and cigarettes and never came back. Tommy is actively giving me anxiety by slowly disappearing more and more often.

[@marcio598w]

You could make an argument that those 1.5kg equal out to about 0,045 sec/lap and without this advantage, Lewis would have been at his back earlier and had more time/laps to make the overtake

[@syaieya]

I feel like every sport, but especially F1, needs to have a "rule of cool" that a team can use once a year to immediately overturn a ruling that is technically correct on the grounds that it was really cool. The fact that a fringe strategy was even on the table and literally one person used it makes F1 all the better. Yes, Mercedes should have known that it would have pushed him over the limit, but wow it was a good watch.

[@bibhushanrajthala]

I remember just bring back matts race call down

[@dominicbarden4436]

As a McLaren fan, the bit at 7:20 is pretty much how I feel. Yes, they arguably should have more wins than the two they've got so far, so it's disappointing on that front, but on the other hand, the fact that they're even in this position, proving that the step-up in performance last year wasn't a fluke and that they have genuinely built a strong frontrunning car for arguably the first time since 2012, is great. It's just unfortunate that the car seems ready for a title fight before the team and drivers are! They're essentially having to relearn how to operate as a top team rather than as a midfield one, and it's shown on several occasions this year. Having said that, they'll surely learn a lot about themselves as the year goes on, whether they win more races or not, which will hopefully bode well for a crack at the title in the near future.

[@DonBarracuda117]

4:43 Oh no, did Matt not get the CrowdStrike patch??

[@menecross]

What Leclerc battle ..... he got passed in the first drs zone after getting into range.

[@KatsuNoJutsu]

Of course I want to see Daniel back in the RB seat, even for the end of the year. But I imagine Checco's sponsors are worth more than championship points and don't want their contracts ended before the year is up.

[@gnarleypunkroker5]

seems like everyone forgot about piastri's mistake pitting losing 2 or 2.5 seconds.

[@TheGremlinsParadise]

03:35 there is a gimble mounted on the camera or lens, depending on what camera type they are using. When you push the button it will do something that it is programmed to do, like a 360 degrees spin for example. Its fun to see once, but I hope it will not something standard that they use too often, you completely miss the nicest part of the pitstop cause of it.

[@Real28]

Someone did the math, it was 2.4sec over the whole stint.

[@AllKings]

Did they consider tyre wear?

[@purple4395]

The worst thing is that on any other track they would have a cool down lap there they can actively collect marbles and stuff which can easily be enough weight for this gab.

[@matthewm.1598]

True, but they knew they weren't doing a cooldown lap. They didn't do it last year and idk how many years before that. Merc screwed George by not using enough ballast.

[@Alan.livingston]

I actually quite enjoyed the strategy aspect of the race. Races don’t always have to be about overtaking.

[@colinbeckstrand2612]

Would love to see Danny in the Red Bull. Even if it's just for the rest of this season. I think with all the ups and downs of his career I think him getting back in the Red Bull after leaving it would be a nice way to get rod of those "what ifs" that jumping from team to team have caused.

[@ItsmepAzand]

Got to love peoples mathskills/logic in trying to calculate the gained time and not realizing the 1,5 kg ofc wasn't 1,5 kg during the whole stint and esp. race if it was due to tyrewear...

[@henrycollins2478]

13:20 aged like fine milk left in the sun