Overview

• Oscar Piastri stretched his unbeaten points-scoring streak to 41 races, the third longest in F1 history, to solidify a 16-point championship lead after Belgium.
• Lando Norris’s errant restart at the Belgian Grand Prix handed track position to Piastri and sparked a sequence of mistakes that cost him victory.
• The split tyre calls in Belgium underlined their divergent strengths: Piastri’s measured medium-tyre plan versus Norris’s all-out hard-tyre attack.
• Norris has forfeited nearly twice as many points as Piastri this season through qualifying mishaps, a Canada collision, and the errors at Spa.
• McLaren maintains a “two number one driver” approach as Norris aims to sharpen his poise and keep his title bid alive.