{"id":30819,"date":"2025-07-29T02:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30819\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:38:17","slug":"f1-live-red-bull-confirms-verstappen-for-2026-as-hamilton-hints-at-cryptic-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/30819\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 LIVE | Red Bull confirms Verstappen for 2026 as Hamilton hints at cryptic announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the chaotic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/belgian-gp\" title=\"Belgian Grand Prix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Belgian Grand Prix<\/a>, the grid immediately will travel from the Ardennes to the Hungaroring for the 40th Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend. Follow the best news of the day with GPblog&#8217;s liveblog.F1 LIVE\u00a0| The Monday after the Belgian GPPiastri win in Belgium, extends championship leadIt took some time for the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix to get underway, however, a repeat of the 2021 season did not take place. The race began around <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/breaking-news\/red-flag-start-delayed-but-verstappen-is-itching-to-go-racing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an hour and twenty minutes later<\/a>\u00a0after it was planned.Because of a mistake into Turn 1 after the rolling start, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/breaking-news\/brilliant-piastri-dominates-norris-at-belgian-gp-to-snatch-crucial-win\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oscar Piastri immediately took the lead from pole sitter Lando Norris<\/a>, and did not look back afterwards. Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/max-verstappen\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Max Verstappen<\/a>\u00a0was stuck behind Charles Leclerc, as he finished in fourth place just behind the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/ferrari\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ferrari<\/a>\u00a0driver.With this outcome, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/oscar-piastri\" title=\"Oscar Piastri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Piastri<\/a> could extend his lead in the drivers&#8217; standings ahead of Norris in the standings, which<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/f1-drivers-standings-after-the-belgian-grand-prix-piastri-extends-lead-over-norris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> currently stands at 16 points<\/a>. Meanwhile, Verstappen&#8217;s deficit has increased to 81 points. According to Martin Brundle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/verstappen-blunt-verdict-issues-by-sky-sports-commentator-after-spa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">that means he is out of contention<\/a>.Champions critical of start delay<\/p>\n<p>Some drivers were satisfied with the delay of the Belgian Grand Prix&#8217;s start time.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/disappointed-verstappen-sees-rain-races-disappear-because-of-fia-we-will-never-see-this-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Verstappen was disappointed with this decision<\/a>. Talking to\u00a0GPblog\u00a0among others, he said,\u00a0&#8220;[I would have started] 3 o&#8217;clock straight away. It was not even raining. And of course between Turn 1 and 5 was quite a bit of water, but if you do two or three laps behind the safety car, then it would have been a lot more clear. And the rest of the track was anyway ready to go and it&#8217;s a bit of a shame.&#8221;Verstappen received new updates for the weekend as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/red-bull-team-principal-mekies-renders-verdict-do-the-updates-on-verstappens-car-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here is how newly-appointed saw the new parts function on the RB21<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-drivers\/lewis-hamilton\" title=\"Lewis Hamilton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Hamilton<\/a> was also on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/news\/hamilton-joins-verstappen-in-scathing-criticism-of-crucial-fia-overreaction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">same page as the four-time world champion<\/a>. The Briton added:\u00a0&#8220;We obviously started the race a little too late I would say.&#8221;Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/analysis\/oh-how-boring-was-the-gp-belgium-while-that-was-not-necessary\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">analysis of the Sunday at Spa here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the chaotic Belgian Grand Prix, the grid immediately will travel from the Ardennes to the Hungaroring for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-30819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30819","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=30819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}