The F1 season resumes this weekend after a two-week break following the British Grand Prix, returning with the sole practice session in Belgium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The reason for that is that Spa is hosting a Sprint weekend, meaning drivers and teams only have 60 minutes of practice before heading into Sprint qualifying later on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Current predictions are for a mixed weather forecast to throw an additional difficulty into the equation for drivers and teams across the weekend.<\/p>\n
Oscar Piastri leads the drivers’ championship by eight points from team-mate Lando Norris, with Max Verstappen 69 points behind the Australian as Red Bull enters its first race without Christian Horner at the helm after his sacking.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ferrari also has a much-vaunted upgrade to its rear suspension, but will that prove beneficial for Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc?<\/p>\n
To find out, you can follow live coverage of free practice for the 2025 F1 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa with our live blog below, which also features live timing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The F1 season resumes this weekend after a two-week break following the British Grand Prix, returning with the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,830,828,831,829,826,813,43,823,825,824,44,822,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-21431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-headlines","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-news","tag-racing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}