Following more t🤡han three hours of delays amid heavy rain and poor visibility, the race resumed wi𒆙th the Safety Car leading the field around for two laps before the red flag came out for the second and final time.

Ensuring two laps𓆏 were completed meant F1 could officially declare a result and ♊award half-points, an outcome several drivers questioned.

Hamilton also said he felt “sorry” for the fans who stuck it out amid the horrendous conditions and b🦹elieves they should get a refund due to no racing laps being completed.

Here’s what a selection of the drivers made of the situation a💜nd a bizarre Belgian GP…

Lewis Hamilton - 'Fans deserve better'

“To🎀day was a farce and the only people to lose out are the fans who have 𒊎paid good money to watch us race,” he wrote on Instagram.

“Of course you caဣn’t do an♋ything about the weather but we have sophisticated equipment to tell us what’s going on and it was clear the weather wasn’t going to let up.

“We were sent out for🌠 one reason and one reason only. Two laps behind a safety car where there is no possibility to gain or lose a place or provide entertainment to🐻 fans isn’t racing.

“We should have just called it quits, not risked the drivers and most importantly refunded the𓃲 fans who are the heart of our sport.”

Max Verstappen - 'Not how you want to win'

“I said at 3:30 ‘let’s go’. I think the conditions wer𒅌e decent but the visibility was very low🐎.

“I think if we would have started at three o’clock we would had a better chanc♏e. Nevertheless after that it ju𝄹st stayed really wet and it kept raining.

“Of course it’s a win but it’s not how you want to win. I think for today big cre﷽dit goes to all the fans around the track to stay here the whole day in rain, in the cold, windy conditions.

“So I think they are 💮🙈actually the bigger winners today.”

Sebastian Vettel - A 'joke' to award points

“It’s a bit of a joke, no? That’s a joke.

“If you want to get a reward for qualifying, you🏅 should get points for qualifying. W꧒hat did we do today [to earn the points]? I don’t know.”

Pierre Gasly - 'I didn’t deserve points'

“I don’t ꦉfeel like I deserved any points today for what I’ve done.

“I just followed the safety car. I didnไ’t crash in the laps to the grid, but that’s the only thing I’ve done today.

“But at the end of the day this is not really the point – I feel really bad for all the people that came here, travওelled, waited hours under the rain to watch an F1 race, and the only thing they got👍 to see is a couple of laps from the safety car and F1 cars following.

“Really𝓡 sorry for all those people and yeah, unfortunately, I don’t 𓄧think there was any other option possible because the visibility was so bad in the pack.

“We know the consequences if a car gets t🌠-boned. Unfortunately, I don’t think there was ܫany other option.

“I’m a bit surprised, to be fair, because I just feel they just put us out on track in the worst conditions just 🎃to allow these points to happen.”

Lando Norris - 'Points shouldn't have been awarded'

“I don’t think any points should be award𝔉ed for today.

“I think for how little we did toda𓆏y, X amount of racing laps, we go out and we race for X amount of the race, but to drive around behind the safety car and then for people to get points… Maybe I’d be saying the opposite if I was first and I’d got a good amount of points, I don’t know.

“I don’t feel like, even though it’s benefitted us today - Daniel got a good amount of points comparing t𓃲o Ferrari – I don’t feel it’s a deserved race for points because it’s not a race ওat the end of the day.”

Carlos Sainz - ‘Nonsense’ if restart was for points

"If it was done with the intention just to score points, then I think 📖it’s absolute nonsense. I don’t think we should do any🦂 kind of laps to alter the final result of a race.

"If it was done with the intention of actually running, and restarting the race, then yes. Which brings me to the next point, which is, howཧ far into the race do you call it a race? And if there was actually no race laps, nꦆo competition, why should points be given or any result be given, because there was basically no race.

“I didn’t race, so I didn’t deserve h♓alf a point.”

Daniel Ricciardo - ‘I feel for the fans’

“I feel for the fans. I ꦜdon’t want it to come across like in an attack mode because it is no one’s fault what happened today.

“For sure I feel for the fans. They save up money to come and watch us and they did not get to see a race. I ꦓwould love for them to get refunded or compensated.

“But it is not an attack to anyo🐼ne because this is just moꦆther nature.”

Valtteri Bottas - 'I don’t think it was a race'

“The thing that was correct is that there weren’t raceable conditions today,🅷 the visibi🍌lity was the main thing.

“On the run to Turn 5 and ꦏalso in the back straight, from where I was, I couldn’t see anything, so it was not possible. And there was no improvem𝕴ent, even with the laps we did.

“But, was it a race? Was it worth points? From my side, of course, I was not in the points, so I never had the opportunity to fight for the points,🔥 so I don’t think it was a race.

“But it is what it is. For sure it was a tricky call for F1 to decide what to do, but that’s what happen🔯ed.”