Denying fans what could’ve been a great wet race at Spa, George Russell says F1’s “smart people” need to find a solution to the visibility issues in the wet.

As the rain chucked down at Spa last month, Race Control delayed the start of the Belgian Grand Prix by more than 80 minutes.

‘It is for the smart people to come up with the solutions’

Additional reporting by Thomas Maher

The problem wasn’t even standing water and aquaplaning, it was visibility.

While the likes of Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton declared they were good to go, others complained they couldn’t see what was ahead of them.

Verstappen had an easy solution for that: “if you can’t see, you can always lift. At one point you will see.”

The stewards, though, agreed with his rivals and, after four laps behind the Safety

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