Belgian Grand Prix - Quotes of the weekend

F1i looks back at some of the best quotes from the Belgian Grand Prix weekend as Daniel Ricciardo picks the wrong term and Fernando Alonso wants cake

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“There are quite a lot of wasps. I don’t like them. That’s the only thing. I think the track is great.”

If Max Verstappen could change one thing about Spa…


"We should have a cake or something! It's a world record, no?!”

Fernando Alonso laughs off McLaren’s combined 105-place grid penalty


“The tight and twisty circuits Ferrari seem to be closer, but I think around here this weekend Mercedes will spread their legs...

“No, that’s not right! Stretch their legs!”

Daniel Ricciardo paints the wrong image when giving his prediction ahead of the race weekend


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“A little bit more humidity around the lower region!”

Ricciardo again, summing up the reaction to Nico Rosberg’s high-speed tyre failure


“I never got my trophy for last year, so don’t expect a trophy coming your way for that!”

After Lewis Hamilton wins the pole trophy for 2015, Rosberg tells him he’ll be lucky to see it…


“Sleep as much as you can while the baby’s not here! It’s going to get bad!”

Romain Grosjean gives some tips on fatherhood to Rosberg, with Rosberg’s wife expecting their first child


 

Motor Racing - Formula One World Championship - Belgian Grand Prix - Race Day - Spa Francorchamps, Belgium

"Same as every time: ‘yeah there was a cut, debris, bodywork, the driver went wide’ – bullshit. If Nico tells us that he didn’t go off the track then he didn’t go off the track, same with me I didn’t go out of the track, just out of the blue it explodes and as I said, if this happens earlier – f**k.”

Sebastian Vettel scratches Pirelli off his Christmas card list after his tyre failure on the penultimate lap


“We were just mentioning, maybe we got the wing angle a little bit wrong…”

At least Jenson Button has a sense of humour after Honda’s struggles - plus an ERS problem - left him greatly down on top speed