Oscar Piastri emphatically clinched pole for the sprint at the Belgian Grand Prix, setting a lap time of 1:40.510 at Spa-Francorchamps, a new lap record.<\/p>\n
That was just under a stunning five-tenths clear of Max Verstappen in second, with Lando Norris completing the top three in the first grid-setting session of the weekend.<\/p>\n
Charles Leclerc and Esteban Ocon were fourth and fifth-quickest, respectively.<\/p>\n
Lewis Hamilton headlined a host of big names who found themselves eliminated in SQ1, alongside Kimi Antonelli and Silverstone podium-sitter Nico Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n
Mercedes’ difficult day continued in SQ2, with George Russell only managing to go P13, failing to make it through to the final part of sprint qualifying.<\/p>\n
Check out the full results from sprint qualifying at the 2025 F1 Belgian Grand Prix below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri emphatically clinched pole for the sprint at the Belgian Grand Prix, setting a lap time of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,2476,578,2479,2477,2480,2478,930,576,577,932,1885,2475,582,82],"class_list":["post-24299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}