Overview

• Heavy rain forced an 80-minute red-flag after the formation lap, leading to four laps behind the Safety Car before a rolling start on lap five.
• Oscar Piastri overtook polesitter Lando Norris into Les Combes on the first racing lap and managed his medium tyres to maintain a 3.415-second winning margin.
• Norris’s switch to hard tyres in a one-stop strategy allowed him to close in late on Piastri, but off-track errors prevented him from mounting a sustained challenge.
• Charles Leclerc fended off Max Verstappen to secure third place, completing the podium in challenging mixed conditions.
• Piastri’s victory extended his championship lead over Norris to 16 points and renewed calls to improve F1’s wet-weather start procedures.