The point for the fastest lap of the day went to Nikita Mazepin. In the two laps that were driven behind the safety car, Nikita Mazepin was the fastest driver. The Haas F1 driver did this on lap two, but since the Grand Prix was suspended, the fastest lap time should count. And that’s where Max Verstappen comes into play.
In the official FIA final results only the starting lap was taken into account, so Mazepin would lose his fastest lap. Not that the Russian scored an extra half a World Championship point because he didn’t make it into the top ten.
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In the previous lap, Verstappen was the fastest with a time of 3: 27.071. The sixteen-time Grand Prix winner has not yet awarded half a point. Motorsport-Magazin.com confronted Helmut Marko with their findings. “We’ll check it out, we would have liked to get half an extra point,” said the Austrian top man.
According to the German media, there is a possibility that this time no additional half point will be awarded for the fastest lap, as the regulations stipulate a “valid lap”. The only counted lap was one that started out of the pit lane and covered 6.88 km. A normal lap in Spa, however, is 7.004 kilometers long. To be continued without a doubt …
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