The start of the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix was delayed by 80 minutes due to rainfall, getting under way long after the precipitation stopped. Did race control get it right or was it overly cautious? For

The start of the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix was delayed for 90 minutes due to rain — but was that overly cautious?

Of all the thousands of pieces of equipment that Formula 1 hauls around the world, few are used less often than the full wet tire. They stayed piled up in stacks, not on the cars, on Sunday as drivers sat out a rain delay of more than an hour to the start of the Belgian Grand Prix.