Race start time and grid as Hamilton suffers further blow - Follow live F1 updates from Spa-Francorchamps with Norris on pole ahead of Piastri and Leclerc

Charles Leclerc says Ferrari is drawing on Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes-honed experience as the team attempts to overcome its long-standing struggles

McLaren driver secures pole for Belgian Grand Prix sprint race as Lewis Hamilton crashes out - Australian youngster tops the drivers’ championship ahead of McLaren team-mate

Hamilton is a five-time winner of the Belgian GP, including last year, when he inherited victory after George Russell’s disqualification. You have to go back to his debut season in 2007 for the last time he finished the race but failed to stand on the podium, crossing the line in fourth place. It’s a track he loves and where he flourishes.

Now at Ferrari, Hamilton recalled when he first met Horner at Red Bull and acknowledged the “remarkable” job he did at the team. “It doesn’t change anything in my life,”

Lewis Hamilton made headlines before the Belgian Grand Prix with one of the standout comments of the 2025 Formula 1 season, saying he ‘refuses’ to leave Ferrari without winning a world championship. Hamilton noted that Ferrari have had ‘amazing’ drivers like Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso during their title drought.

Oscar Piastri took sprint pole by over four tenths ahead of Max Verstappen and Lando Norris at Spa-Francorchamps. With Oscar Piastri having showed ominous pace in FP1 at Belgium, he was favourite to take sprint pole ahead of his rivals.

Lewis Hamilton was the target of an angry team radio rant by Sauber driver Gabriel Bortoleto during FP1 at the Belgian Grand Prix. And Hamilton’s Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc weighed in on the incident,