{"id":23431,"date":"2025-07-26T11:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23431\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T11:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T11:13:09","slug":"sprint-results-full-leaderboard-max-verstappen-wins-to-get-red-bulls-post-christian-horner-era-off-to-flying-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/23431\/","title":{"rendered":"Sprint results, full leaderboard, Max Verstappen wins to get Red Bull\u2019s post Christian Horner-era off to flying start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Verstappen won the Belgian Grand Prix sprint race on Saturday to get Red Bull\u2019s post Christian Horner-era off to a flying start.<\/p>\n<p>The world champion beat McLaren pole-sitter Oscar Piastri on Laurent Mekies\u2019 first race weekend as team principal since replacing sacked Horner a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n<p>Lando Norris in the other McLaren was third.<\/p>\n<p>Fox Sports, available on Kayo Sports, is the only place to watch every practice, qualifying session and race in the 2025 FIA Formula One World Championship\u2122 LIVE in 4K. <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=f1&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkmotorsport-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-mtr-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New to Kayo? Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt worked out really well, I knew it was going to be tough keeping them (the McLarens) behind,\u201d said Verstappen after his after his 12th career sprint win<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t afford to make any big mistakes. It\u2019s a sprint win but it still counts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753528389_190_poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Piastri enjoyed a smooth getaway but Verstappen made his decisive pass down the Kemmel straight on the first of the 15-lap dash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to appreciate what an incredibly brilliant drive that was from Max Verstappen,\u201d Sky Sports F1\u2019s Nico Rosberg said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the outside sometimes it can look a little easier but in the car, he has a slower car than the McLarens, he has the maximum pressure &#8211; Oscar was always 0.6-0.7s behind all the way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re inside the car, the pressure from Max is so insanely high in that car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne tiny mistake and the win is again. It\u2019s so much easier for the guy who\u2019s following, who most of the race did not have anyone behind him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Piastri extended his lead in the drivers championship by one point to nine over Norris, with Verstappen 68 points adrift of the Australian Qualifying for Sunday\u2019s main race takes place later Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI tried my best to snake my way through the straights and not give too much of a tow [at the start], but didn\u2019t have enough straight-line speed and then obviously didn\u2019t have enough speed for the next 15 laps either,\u201d Piastri said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill a good result, still good points. It is only a Sprint, the main points are tomorrow, so pretty happy with it but a bit frustrated I couldn\u2019t get past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MORE TO COME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Max Verstappen won the Belgian Grand Prix sprint race on Saturday to get Red Bull\u2019s post Christian Horner-era&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[2620,64,63,18246,23502,1199,21779,817,23501,813,816,1737,825,23505,22485,85,23503,23504,13773],"class_list":["post-23431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-agence-france-presse","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-belgian-grand","tag-career-sprint","tag-christian-horner","tag-drivers-championship","tag-f1","tag-flying-start","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lando-norris","tag-max-verstappen","tag-post-horner-era","tag-spa-record","tag-sports","tag-sprint-results","tag-sprint-win","tag-team-principal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23431","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=23431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}