Oscar Piastri now leads the F1 drivers’ championship by 16 points after defeating team-mate Lando Norris in a heavily delayed Belgian Grand Prix.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suspended after the formation lap was run behind the safety car for over one-and-a-half hours due to rain, Piastri stormed past his team-mate on the first green flag on the run to Les Combes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After the field switched to slicks, Piastri took on the mediums, whilst Norris opted for hards, setting up a thrilling finish, on paper, as doubts emerged about the medium’s ability to last the distance.<\/p>\n
However, mistakes from Norris in his charge meant he felt 3.415s short by the flag, as Charles Leclerc was third for Ferrari.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It means Piastri moves to 266 points to Norris’s 250 as Max Verstappen was fourth and further cements third in the drivers’ standings.<\/p>\n
The maximum haul further cements McLaren’s lead at the top of the constructors’ on 516 points, with Ferrari now on 248 in second.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Liam Lawson’s eighth place finish moves Racing Bulls closer to Stake for sixth in the standings, just two points between the two teams.<\/p>\n
Check out the full 2025 F1 drivers’ and constructors’ standings after the Belgian GP below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri now leads the F1 drivers’ championship by 16 points after defeating team-mate Lando Norris in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-25923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25923","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=25923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}