Welcome to our live coverage for the sprint race for the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix from Spa-Francorchamps. Yesterday’s sprint qualifying produced perhaps an expected result when it came to pole position, but there were a few other surprises further down the grid. Oscar Piastri, the championship leader, dominated and was nearly half a second than the next fastest driver. That, though, was not his McLaren team-mate and title rival Lando Norris but Max Verstappen of Red Bull. Norris was in third but more than 0.6sec down on Piastri, a large margin even taking into account that the track here is a long one.