Our 2026 Belgian GP predictions
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Hello everybody and welcome back to the B1 Podcast with Matt and Tommy.
It's race week. We're going into a new race weekend where the last winner was Charles Leclerc week. And that feels good. I was going to say it's been a great... The reigning winner. The reigning winner. That is a sentence or a phrase we have never said before until now. But I think it needs to be coined. I think we need to start using it, especially when it's our favourite drivers. Although Max, of course, how many has he won this year? Sorry. So look, actually, yeah. Wow. I didn't even think about that until right on the fly. That feels unbelievable.
When you get some double. No, no, no.
You can't. You just can't take one. Can you? That's crazy. You just can't take it apart from the super yacht. So, hello, everybody. Welcome to all the things Belgian Grand Prix. It's going to be slightly left field, this podcast, because one, I have been so utterly unwell over the last three days. I am still unwell, but we have to do predictions. So apologies for that. But it could also be just so left field. So I'm ready for it. Tommy, there's actually been quite a bit of news, quite a bit of things going on in the world of F1.
Yeah, it's amazing what a little break for one week does. And yeah, I think last time we recorded predictions, we normally do the little news section and there was absolutely nothing. And now it's like, no, here's all the murmurings and stuff. I think it's kind of that kind of era of the season where it's getting into the kind of, as we're about to approach silly season closer and closer. So things start to pick up, don't they? Yeah. the summer break news, there's this little kind of murmurings of things that are going to happen.
Indeed. So let's get into what we have learned or rumours that have been floating around since Silverstone. So the first one is that the FIA is now speaking to Red Bull and Ferrari about the Macarena wing. Oh yeah, it's finally sort of rearing its ugly head potentially, especially in the Red Bull camp because of the fact Max has had two... rear wing related incidents, which have, of course, turned to massive crashes. So that is, as far as I'm aware, an ongoing discussion. But that might well even mean that Red Bull, because of what's happened with Max, move to a more conventional wing for this upcoming Grand Prix weekend. How much time that will lose them? Who knows? I'm sure there is, of course, some gain to be had if they're running it in the first place.
But yeah, I think that will give us a bit of an indication of where those conversations are going should they revert back to a normal wing.
Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if they do because Max was very cross after Silverstone, wasn't he? I think people got confused with potentially him leaving Red Bull and more just the fact that he was very annoyed about the situation and people saw him kind of storm off uh up up in the in the motorhome which is understandable if you've had a huge crash lost a podium place of course as well and for it to be the second time that it's happened you don't want to be going to a track like spa where you know it's a very dangerous circuit where you're worried about a rear wing failure again so yeah there's obviously teams will always push for performance but if they worry about it again i think that they're going to need to revert back um to what they had before because yeah two two failures in two very quick succession
Indeed. So we will keep an eye on that one. Max Verstappen related stuff continues because, of course, there was this. I don't know when exactly the whole rumor started, but the Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen swap became quite the forefront in Formula One chatter. And it turns out that Mark Webber, of course, Oscar Piastri's manager, has said that essentially the swap is complete fiction. So maybe a rumor that's gotten out of hand.
Fueled by a Will Buxton tweet, I imagine as well.
Yeah, don't get me started on that tweet. Absolutely. I mean, the entire Formula One community was baited by one singular tweet, which turned out to be an IndyCar update, which both myself and you, Tommy, we chat.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–10:04
2
What are the latest F1 rumours to watch before the 2026 Belgian GP?
10:04–11:07
3
Why is the FIA discussing the Macarena rear wing with Red Bull and Ferrari?
11:07–19:58
4
Could a Max Verstappen–Oscar Piastri swap actually happen?
19:58–33:55
5
What are the arguments for and against reintroducing refuelling and V8 engines?
33:55–41:28
6
Is Bahrain likely to return to the 2026 calendar and what obstacles remain?
41:28–44:20