{"id":24165,"date":"2025-07-26T02:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/24165\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T02:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:33:09","slug":"oscar-piastri-looks-a-step-ahead-but-can-rivals-and-rain-stop-the-mclaren-driver-conquering-the-belgian-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/24165\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri looks a step ahead but can rivals and rain stop the McLaren driver conquering the Belgian Grand Prix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Oscar Piastri delivered a lap of the very highest quality to take Sprint pole position ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix and put an ominous marker in the sand ahead of the weekend. But with rain still forecast for Sunday afternoon as it stands, do his rivals have a chance to topple the Australian?<\/p>\n<p>Piastri goes from near zero to hero in minutes<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\"><a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/oscar-piastri\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Piastri<\/a> was on the brink of getting kicked out of Sprint Qualifying in the second session after he had his first lap deleted for track limits at Turn 4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">But he made it through to fight another day and having been the most impressive driver in the field all day, he subsequently <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/latest\/article\/piastri-dominates-for-sprint-qualifying-pole-position-at-spa-ahead-of.5jmGju5W4gY3503UmzlFuV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">made no mistake when it mattered most in SQ3 to snatch pole<\/a> by nearly half a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri delivered a lap of the very highest quality to take Sprint pole position ahead of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[1687,372,6537,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-24165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-f1","9":"tag-formula-1","10":"tag-formula1","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}