After China and Miami, Belgium is the third of the six heats in the championship to host a Sprint race in addition to the Grand Prix scheduled for Sunday July 27. This therefore implies that there will be only one free test session during the weekend, session scheduled Friday before the qualifications for the Sprint race which will be disputed on Saturday morning, just a few hours before the qualifying session for the Sunday race.
The two McLaren pilots obviously leave great favorites for this weekend in Belgian Ardennes where, the rain should, like most of the time, reserve a few surprises. But Oscar Piastri, At the top of the championship, like Lando Norris invigorated by his victory at Silverstone three weeks ago should logically garner new points and dig a little more the gap with their competitors.
More Max Verstappen Consider playing a bad turn to the two McLaren pilots. The reigning quadruple world champion whose future is still uncertain at Red Bull will play his first Grand Prix under the direction of French Laurent Mekies who has just replaced Christian Horner at the head of the Austrian team and will first aim for a 45th pole position in a career, which would allow him to exceed the Sebastian Vettel record.
In Spa-Francorchamps where something is always happening on this hilly route where the single-seaters regularly reach the 320 km/h, Ferrari will also have to score precious points on a route where Lewis Hamilton won four times and Charles Leclerc in 2019.
Last year, it’s the Briton George Russell Who had established himself but the Mercedes pilot had been disqualified after the race for a non -compliant weight and the victory had returned to Lewis Hamilton, which is his last success in F1.