Edged Out
Somewhere amid all the talk of politics and legalities in Spa, a motor race broke out. Richard Barnes takes stock of the Belgian Grand Prix, and its implications for the championship fight
Racing purists will not relish the memory that Formula One's return to the historic Spa-Francorchamps circuit for Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix, after an absence of one year, was completely overshadowed by the controversial events around last Thursday's World Motor Sports Council hearing in Paris.
Even with Eau Rouge being a flat-out corner these days, and with its new-look but largely neutered Bus Stop chicane, Spa should be the racing highlight of the F1 calendar, not an afterthought to off-track politics.
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