SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen emerged as the winner of the rain-ruined Belgian Grand Prix with only two laps completed behind a safety car at a drenched and dangerous Spa-Francorchamps circuit.
Pole-sitter Verstappen was awarded half points, which moved him to within three points of Lewis Hamilton in the drivers’ championship after the shortest race in Formula One history.
Williams’ George Russell took second with Hamilton’s Mercedes in third after the 12th round of the season – all 14 kilometres of it.
Organisers finally gave the go-ahead for a rolling start behind a safety car at 18h30 local time (1630), three and a half hours after the scheduled 15h00 start.
But after a couple of laps with the…
