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"Kimi can buy me dinner." Valtteri Bottas jokes about his part in Antonelli’s Belgian GP win

Motorsport.comJuly 19, 2026

Curated for Torqlytics readers — aggregated from trusted F1 publishers, not original reporting.


Negotiating traffic is a fact of life in Formula 1 racing, all the more so given the current pace differential between the front and back of the grid in a new regulatory era.It was especially unfortunate for Charles Leclerc to be locked in a battle for the lead of the Belgian Grand Prix when he came up to lap one of the slowest cars on the grid – in a particularly awkward location on ...