Overview

• Heavy rain forced an aborted safety-car start and an 80-minute delay at Spa-Francorchamps before green-flag racing could begin.
• Oscar Piastri overtook polesitter Lando Norris at the flying start and extended his advantage by pitting for soft tyres on lap 13.
• Lando Norris finished second, Charles Leclerc secured third, and Max Verstappen came home fourth while calling the FIA’s cautious restart “silly.”
• Piastri now leads the drivers’ standings with 266 points, 16 ahead of Norris and further stretching Verstappen’s title defense challenges.
• The weekend’s weather drama has revived debate over the FIA’s safety protocols, with teams weighing visibility risks against the need to race.