F1 2021, Co-Op, S01, R10, Belgium

I was very excited for our first career trip to Belgium; always a track I've thought I was decent at, and I'm not sure the track is as difficult as the average locale in this game. I'm sure Brett was looking to get things turned around for himself as well, as he'd had a rough time of it lately, while I had recently picking up (small numbers of) points on a semi-regular basis.

Well, it wasn't much better a day for him than the recent rounds (bar Silverstone). Looks like he only made it until Lap 6 or so and was out after that.

Huge win for Hamilton here; that's actually three in a row for him. He has totally erased the gap to Perez that was pretty large at the end of Round 5 (at which point Perez had won 4 in a row), and has now opened up a considerable lead over Perez and Bottas and the rest of the field, with only Verstappen within immediate striking distance. While Perez and Bottas aren't out of it technically, it would take a large amount of luck for them to beat Hamilton now.

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Looks like something brought out the Safety Car for this round; it saved Gasly's race after some early damage brought him in for a pitstop at the end of the first lap.

As for myself, I was having a great run again and was running 10th (behind Brett) until Brett's DNF. I pitted during the SC and wasn't in a good spot until I confirmed that a bunch of drivers hadn't pitted by the restart and then pitted a lap later (!). I was moved up to 7th momentarily, and ended up letting Gasly after a scuffle with Russell. I slowly faded back (I think I had a touch of damage) into the clutches of Sainz, Mick, Tsunoda, Alonso and Vettel (I had a 3 second penalty too). On track, I was 9th, but with the penalty I was back to 14th. 

All in all a terrible day for Brett. He DNF'd after leading me for the first half dozen laps, and then, while I didn't score, I let both my teammate and his teammate score points.