Andrea Stella compares Lando Norris at Oscar Piastri to past F1 champions. McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri are performing at the same level as several Formula 1 world champions he has worked with in the past.

Charles Leclerc took home a respectable third place for Ferrari, with Max Verstappen largely powerless in fourth. Lewis Hamilton, who started in the pit-lane, recovered impressively to come home in seventh to conclude a wretched weekend for the seven-time world champion.

As Oscar Piastri races toward Formula 1 greatness, meet the woman who has been cheering him on since boarding school: Lily Zneimer.

F1 championship leader Oscar Piastri stormed to his sixth victory of the 2025 season at the Belgian Grand Prix. Piastri sits 16 points ahead of McLaren teammate Lando Norris i n the drivers’ championship. Remarkably, it was Piastri’s 39th consecutive top 10 finish. This streak stretches back to the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix.

Oscar Piastri has reiterated for the “fifth time”, McLaren have not upgraded the MCL39’s front suspension, they just tweaked the geometry, and for Spa he’ll still be racing the old layout.

Oscar Piastri is not fancying his chances of holding off Max Verstappen's low downforce Red Bull at the start of F1's Belgian Grand Prix sprint

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, July 26 (Reuters) - McLaren's Lando Norris edged out championship-leading teammate and Formula One title rival Oscar Piastri to take pole position for what could be a wet and chaotic Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday.