\t\t\t\t\t2026 F1 Belgian Grand Prix – Spa weather forecast<\/p>\n
F1 drivers are currently forecast to have their first taste of driving the 2026 cars in wet conditions in competition during this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
As of 12:45 BST on Monday, July 13th, the current weather forecasts for Spa are predicting a wet weekend throughout, with all three days of track action affected by rain – something which has not yet happened in competition this season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Some drivers, like Lewis Hamilton, Pierre Gasly, and the Racing Bulls drivers Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad, have run in wet conditions either during pre-season shakedowns or in special Pirelli tyre testing, but thus far, no competitive session across a grand prix weekend has been run in fully wet conditions.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The start of the Canadian GP was affected by sprinkles, but most of the field took slick tyres for the launch.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Current forecasts estimate a percentage chance of rain of around 50%-67% on both Friday and Saturday, with this falling to around 39% chance of rain for Sunday’s 15:00 local time start in the Ardennes Forest.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Temperatures are expected to be in the mid-20s throughout, with winds coming roughly from the north-west, which corresponds to a tail-wind down the Kemmel Straight, which runs directly south, and a head-wind into the Bus-Stop chicane to end the lap.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Belgian Grand Prix – Spa weather forecast F1 drivers are currently forecast to have their first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799539,"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-799538","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\/799538","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=799538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}