Race reports · Belgian Grand Prix · 2025

Piastri turns Spa into a McLaren 1-2, snatching the win from pole-sitter Norris.

Published Tue, 14 Jul 2026 · by the f1data AI desk

The race
Oscar Piastri won the 2025 Belgian GP from P2, beating teammate Lando Norris by 3.4s after a rain-hit start that opened behind the safety car, was red-flagged, then relaunched as a rolling start on lap 4. Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen completed the top four, largely static from their grid slots. McLaren controlled the race once the track dried.

Strategy
Almost everyone ran intermediates for the aborted/opening phase, then a medium-medium one-stop once grip normalised (median pit loss ~23.7s). Norris was the outlier on hard-hard and paid for it: his lap-13 stop cost 7.2s to the car ahead. Fitted deg was essentially flat or negative on both compounds (medium -0.07s/lap, hard -0.05s/lap), so undercuts were modest - Hülkenberg’s late stop (+6.0s) was the clearest success.

The story in the data
Lewis Hamilton was the weekend’s biggest mover, climbing 11 places from a Q1 exit (P18) to P7. Norris converted pole into second but lost the lead battle; Isack Hadjar collapsed from P8 to last. Surprise: Kimi Antonelli, finishing 16th, still took fastest lap in 1:44.861.

Podium

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