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.

[@viniciusbraga9881]

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.

[@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

[@hornetgamer8980]

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

[@scsutton1]

4:46 Matt.exe has stopped working.

[@bogaczew]

it has not

[@Becky_Cooling]

Try turning it off and back on again

[@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.

[@sunnyhan824]

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

[@fidan2fast]

Looks like Matt rebooted

[@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!

[@flamingburritto]

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

[@_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

[@Model_Student]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@drewmagnet]

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

[@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

[@user-kz9vy1tt8z]

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?

[@user-kz9vy1tt8z]

@@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@bram4909]

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

[@seanpowell7770]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@buzzkillroza499]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@andrewhazlewood4569]

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

[@BennyBoy_Alpha]

13:26 About that…. 😂

[@anthonyberg1945]

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

[@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.

[@JOYDEEPPRAMANIK]

Crystal Horner is the constant 😂

[@jonlee6794]

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

[@mrbismarck]

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

[@vladtepes97]

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

[@chrisgallagher1317]

Should of had more paint on the car 😂

[@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.

[@3d_aeroworks]

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

[@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 🤣

[@coletyler148]

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

[@kylem324]

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

[@phoebesmith8154]

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

[@tuxness]

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

[@slaphands7703]

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

[@BPBomber]

I think the jackman’s given name is Hugh.

[@MarianoLu]

Nicely done 😂

[@blackjacktrial]

Based on his height, maybe Huge Jackman.

[@logicmaster756]

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

[@mferris72]

Hell yes on Danny Ric in the Red Bull again!

[@jdbb3gotskills]

4 weeks without a race 😢 depression at its finest 😂

[@JohnSmith-p6b]

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

[@youngjedi774]

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.

[@henrycollins2478]

13:20 aged like fine milk left in the sun

[@mandykolk4257]

1,5 kilo's is more than one appendix right?? 😂😂😂😂

[@ArtyI]

*if your appendix is 1.5 kilos you have some serious medical issue*

[@spankwish]

Not like Sainz didn’t lose weight between surgery. It’s more than just an appendix

[@WHALEx3]

It’s about 3 seconds over the race.

[@seqouiaflame]

Legend!

[@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.

[@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!"

[@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.

[@8jof544]

4:45 Matt's 56k modem rebooted

[@Good_Horsey]

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

[@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

[@marco52631]

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

[@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.

[@larssonk22]

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

[@xoluciaxo_3721]

Everytime you guys post a video, a new update seems to come out😂 Now it’s confirmed by Horner that Perez will in fact drive for Redbull the whole rest of the season

[@joshn1678]

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

[@siddhantdas33]

George deciding to pull a win out of his ass by going against the entire field - and the racing gods were like - “Blimey, not so fast mate.”

[@lukaszbarszczak]

That stop to look for a word was GOLD 😂

[@ThunderApache]

I love to see Daniel Ricciardo to Red Bull Racing.

[@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

[@zlaede]

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

[@AudreyH48]

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

[@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.

[@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).

[@31Blaize]

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

[@sumerrana6805]

13:53 "NEXT YEAR IS OUR YEAR"

[@stormx498]

Perez is confirmed staying

[@Real28]

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

[@AllKings]

Did they consider tyre wear?

[@peterfconley]

It won’t have been fuel, as it was the dry weight that was under. Still, probably could have picked up enough marbles to cover off the 1.5kg.

[@scottt3491]

14:27 - Could have sworn you farted.

[@vishnuadharsh507]

Yes he did

[@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...

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@druegnor1703]

~Atleast give George Point penalties or time penalty

[@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.

[@cgomes1607]

You CAN win a race in the first lap, if that race is Monaco 😂. For a driver that finds himself in P1 after turn 1 not to win that race, either a undercut opportunity on the single tyre change moment, or something big has to happen. Love you Monaco ❤

[@BPBomber]

I’m definitely no George Russell fan (in fact, I don’t really like him) but I think his disqualification is a pretty shitty consequence for being a couple of kilograms underweight

[@Emarq31]

Not even a couple kilograms. But totally justified. Especially considering the cars are weighed before the race. It also erases any dispute if that weigh reduction was strategy or just simply a mistake. A DQ makes all that redundant. I think the consequences should be more severe with some rules, even in laws for certain society. The idea is to NOT have people breaking the rules....

[@khalidmartie5854]

Hamilton, Vettel and Charles have been disqualified before for much less. Rules are rules

[@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%

[@CarimboHanky]

3:35 i dont remember when it happened but i do remember it was a verstappen pit

[@RPLAsmodeus]

So did George spend too much fuel at the end, trying to stay ahead of Hamilton.

[@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.

[@rottieshepcalibre9156]

Hamilton entering the paddock was hilarious tweet 😂

[@zpir1t427]

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

[@Drew_2308]

12:30 yes, yes, Yes, a thousand times YES

[@antardas6734]

Lewis got his karma from Spa 2008

[@patricklemire9278]

Did anyone notice how unhappy Toto looked unhappy at end of race pre DQ? It was a 1-2 at Soa, after all. Did he have an inkling ? Or just miffed George didn’t waive Lewis by to lock up and easy 1-2 and chose to hold station and let Piastri in? It just looked weird

[@King_Ears]

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

[@bibhushanrajthala]

I remember just bring back matts race call down

[@Disturbedmelloow]

that didn't age well did it lol. Seeing how Sargeant lost his seat probably after this was recorded haha. NOW REDO THIS FUNNIEST TWEETS!!! (Just kidding )

[@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.