{"id":18724,"date":"2025-07-26T05:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/piastri-dominates-belgian-gp-sprint-verstappen-and-norris-in-the-shadow\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T05:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:17:06","slug":"piastri-dominates-belgian-gp-sprint-verstappen-and-norris-in-the-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/f1\/piastri-dominates-belgian-gp-sprint-verstappen-and-norris-in-the-shadow\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri Dominates Belgian GP Sprint: Verstappen and Norris in the Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oscar Piastri takes pole position at Spa-Francorchamps<\/h2>\n\n\nThe championship leader, Oscar Piastri, secured pole position for Saturday&#8217;s sprint race at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, surpassing Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.\n\nPiastri set a time of 1:40.510, demonstrating clear superiority over his competitors, after a session that promised to be very close.\n\nThe Australian was close to being eliminated in Q2, but managed to advance and secure first place.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Come on, champ! Sorry for the heart attack. That wasn&#8217;t in the plan.<\/p><cite>Oscar Piastri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nPiastri will seek to increase his lead over his McLaren teammate and championship rival, Lando Norris, who finished 0.6 seconds behind. Norris is eight points behind Piastri in the overall standings.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0725%2Fr1523571_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Oscar Piastri en la cima de las dos sesiones del viernes en el Gran Premio de B\u00e9lgica.\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nThe current world champion, Max Verstappen, will start between Piastri and Norris. Verstappen seemed set to lead the session with Red Bull, but Piastri frustrated his aspirations with his final performance.\n\nFerrari&#8217;s Charles Leclerc placed fourth, seven tenths of a second behind Piastri&#8217;s time, despite the improvements to his single-seater.\n\nLewis Hamilton, Leclerc&#8217;s teammate, will start in 18th position after a spin in Q1.\n\nEsteban Ocon and Ollie Bearman were the standout figures of the session, qualifying just ahead and behind Carlos Sainz, from Williams, who took sixth place.\n\nPierre Gasly, Isak Hadjar, and Gabriele Bortoleto completed the top ten.\n\nMercedes suffered significant setbacks, in addition to Hamilton&#8217;s. Kimi Antonelli spun in Stavelot during Q1, which left him out of qualifying.\n\nGeorge Russell, Antonelli&#8217;s teammate, failed to advance to Q2.\n\nYuki Tsunoda, Verstappen&#8217;s teammate, struggled and qualified in twelfth position, behind Liam Lawson.\n\nThe sprint race on Saturday will be held before the traditional qualifying session, which will determine the grid for Sunday&#8217;s race.\n\nThe weather forecast indicates that the rest of the weekend could be affected by rain.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri takes pole position at Spa-Francorchamps The championship leader, Oscar Piastri, secured pole position for Saturday&#8217;s sprint race at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, surpassing Max Verstappen and Lando Norris. Piastri set a time of 1:40.510, demonstrating clear superiority over his competitors, after a session that promised to be very close. The Australian was close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[443,176,6298,6362],"class_list":{"0":"post-18724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-max-verstappen","9":"tag-oscar-piastri","10":"tag-spa","11":"tag-sprint"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}