{"id":24516,"date":"2025-07-26T21:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24516\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:51:10","slug":"belgian-grand-prix-2025-f1-starting-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/24516\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Grand Prix 2025 F1 starting grid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lando Norris saw off Oscar Piastri in an all-McLaren duel for Belgian Grand Prix Formula 1 pole position.<\/p>\n<p>Norris&#8217;s first Q3 lap was enough to beat Piastri&#8217;s late effort by 0.085s.<\/p>\n<p>Sprint race winner Max Verstappen (Red Bull) was left to rue a mistake early in his final lap that allowed Ferrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc to pick him off by 0.003s for third place on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>A track limits-thwarted Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) is due to start 16th, while like him Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) was also knocked out in Q1 for a second day running.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-race.com\/formula-1\/i-have-no-confidence-what-now-for-antonelli-after-worst-f1-qualifying\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he will start from the pitlane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll recorded the worst qualifying performance in Aston Martin&#8217;s history in 19th and 20th.<\/p>\n<p>Belgian Grand Prix provisional grid<\/p>\n<p>1 Lando Norris (McLaren)<br \/>2 Oscar Piastri (McLaren)<br \/>3 Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)<br \/>4 Max Verstappen (Red Bull)<br \/>5 Alex Albon (Williams)<br \/>6 George Russell (Mercedes)<br \/>7 Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)<br \/>8 Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)<br \/>9 Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)<br \/>10 Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)<br \/>11 Esteban Ocon (Haas)<br \/>12 Ollie Bearman (Haas)<br \/>13 Pierre Gasly (Alpine)<br \/>14 Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber)<br \/>15 Carlos Sainz (Williams)<br \/>16 Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)<br \/>17 Franco Colapinto (Alpine)<br \/>18 Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)<br \/>19 Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)<br \/>Pitlane Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)*<\/p>\n<p>*expected but not confirmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris saw off Oscar Piastri in an all-McLaren duel for Belgian Grand Prix Formula 1 pole position.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-24516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516","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=24516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}