Last year’s Belgian Grand Prix ended painfully for Mercedes’ George Russell when he was stripped of on-track victory for being underweight – but in 2025 the disappointments have been stacking up even before the lights go out.Russell qualified 13th for the sprint race, his worst grid position of the year,Continue Reading
Andrea Kimi Antonelli is not having a good time in Formula 1.Mercedes’ 18-year-old wonderkid had a promising start to his maiden season as he took sprint pole in Miami and scored consistent top-six finishes over the first six grands prix.Yet in the latest six rounds, Antonelli scored points just onceContinue Reading
Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Laurent Mekies says his squad has “significantly” increased its downforce levels to be more competitive if Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix turns out wet.Red Bull took a sprint race win with Max Verstappen in the dry on Saturday, as a low-downforce set-up allowed the worldContinue Reading
Nico Hulkenberg believes Aston Martin Formula 1 driver Lance Stroll should have yielded after the pair collided in the pitlane during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.Hulkenberg was attempting to join the queue of cars leaving the pits at the start of the first segment of qualifying and thought heContinue Reading
Charles Leclerc’s Formula 1 sprint race during the Belgian Grand Prix weekend followed a depressingly familiar pattern for Ferrari this season: heroics on the first lap, followed by a slow deflation of the team’s hopes as the SF-25 slipped backwards.From fourth on the grid, Leclerc slipstreamed McLaren’s Lando Norris upContinue Reading
The Belgian Grand Prix sprint race was largely affected by the differing downforce levels run by the two Formula 1 teams at the front; Red Bull’s lower-drag approach with Max Verstappen proved to be the more successful set-up.McLaren, running slightly higher downforce that led to a 0.47-second gap between polesitterContinue Reading
Max Verstappen says he had to forget about tyre usage and drive “over the limit” to resist the faster McLaren of Oscar Piastri during Formula 1’s Spa sprint race.Verstappen passed polesitter Piastri on lap one, slipstreaming past the Australian championship leader on the long run up the Kemmel Straight andContinue Reading
Reigning world champion Max Verstappen triumphed in the sprint race at Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix to start Red Bull’s new era with a win.Verstappen used his Red Bull’s superior top speed to draft past polesitter Oscar Piastri at Les Combes on lap one of the 15-lap contest, much likeContinue Reading
The tough time Alex Rins is going through since signing with Yamaha – coupled with MotoGP teams rushing to lock in riders from 2027 – means the Spaniard can’t afford to wait for the V4 engine to deliver him tools to perform.Rins tries to maintain an ever-present smile in frontContinue Reading
Despite taking an utterly dominant Formula 1 sprint pole at the Belgian Grand Prix, McLaren’s Oscar Piastri wasn’t getting too excited just yet over his victory chances on Saturday morning.“Spa’s probably one of the worst places to have pole position, so yeah… it is what it is,” a muted AustralianContinue Reading