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Red Bull has handed Yuki Tsunoda a welcome boost to help turn his Formula 1 season around by upgrading him to the latest floor, with the Japanese driver qualifying seventh at the Belgian Grand Prix.Like drivers before him, Tsunoda has been struggling to gel with the difficult RB21 since taking over from Liam Lawson at April’s Japanese GP.Tsunoda’s calamitous points tally of seven in 10 …Keep 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 world champion to pass polesitter Oscar Piastri on the Kemmel Straight and then made it impossible for …Keep 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 once – his podium in Montreal – and was outqualified by team-mate George Russell every …Keep reading

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, and spent the entire race in a DRS train behind Yuki Tsunoda’s Red Bull, finishing …Keep reading

     2      Oscar Piastri (McLaren) 1  Lando Norris (McLaren)       4      Max Verstappen (Red Bull) 3  Charles Leclerc …Keep reading

McLaren’s Lando Norris has struck back against team-mate Oscar Piastri by taking his fourth pole of the 2025 Formula 1 season at the Belgian Grand Prix.Norris saw title rival Piastri take pole for the sprint at the iconic Spa-Francorchamps circuit, and finished behind his team-mate during Saturday’s 15-lap contest, but the Briton then went on to clinch his first-ever Belgian pole in the …Keep 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 up the Kemmel Straight on the opening lap and went around the outside …Keep 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 polesitter Oscar Piastri and Verstappen in qualifying, was at a disadvantage at the start …Keep 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 Belgian Grand Prix sprint race.Verstappen passed polesitter Piastri on lap one, slipstreaming past the Australian championship leader on the long run up the Kemmel Straight and into Les Combes, which he deemed as his only shot at winning the 15-lap …Keep reading

Max Verstappen has conquered the sprint race at Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix to start Red Bull’s new era with a win.On the first lap of the 15-lap contest, Verstappen used his Red Bull’s superior top speed to draft past polesitter Oscar Piastri at Les Combes, much like the championship leader had feared before the start.In Verstappen’s wake Charles Leclerc made a similar move to nick …Keep reading