Ferrari figure first
There is a red card for Ferrari for that qualifying performance. Even if the Sunday deluge hadn't happened, even though Spa is one of the better circuits for overtaking on the F1 calendar, eleventh and thirteenth just isn't good enough (it doesn't matter that the positions were improved by penalties for other people). Both cars were behind one of the Williams cars, and the second Ferrari was behind both William cars. That means not just the amazing George Russell doing incredible, impossible things in that Williams, but also Nicholas Latifi who is not as good at getting the inexplicable out of the Williams.
It wouldn't have been acceptable even without the Sunday weirdness.
I didn't like the post-2011-Canadian-Grand-Prix rule change, because it was obviously a commercially-mandated decision rather than a sporting one, and reduced the amount of flexibility the race director had when things went wrong. Those are precisely the times when you need more flexibility.
I don't think that the Belgian GP was salvageable with that amount of rain (running it on Monday was a pipe dream due to likely lack of marshals), but running for just enough laps to get it to half points is decidedly fishy. Running it that way when there was no chance of overtaking was a parade of cars that shouldn't have counted as a race, no matter how happy George Russell's second place makes me.
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