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Lando Norris left Spa with more frustration than s

Lando Norris left Spa with more frustration than satisfaction after finishing P7, convinced McLaren had the pace for a podium — even a win — despite starting P13 with a 10-place grid penalty for a fourth Control Electronics Unit. Instead, the race pivoted on a Virtual Safety Car, and McLaren’s decision to keep him out while others pitted handed him a brief lead before turning him into an easy target on worn tyres.

Leclerc, Antonelli, Verstappen and Piastri all jumped him with fresher rubber and the VSC advantage, and when Norris finally stopped on lap 31 a 7.8s rear-left issue compounded the damage. Norris estimated around 16 seconds lost between the VSC call and the slow stop, calling it a race made “incredibly tough” when the speed was already there. Now McLaren’s focus shifts from what might’ve been to a hard review of decision-making under pressure.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #LandoNorris #McLaren #F1Strategy

Ferrari left Spa furious at what it sees as an out

Ferrari left Spa furious at what it sees as an outlier call: Lewis Hamilton’s five-second penalty for his lap-one clash with George Russell at Les Combes. Russell was tipped into the gravel and out on the spot, while Hamilton continued to P4, but Fred Vasseur argues similar first-lap incidents have largely been waved off as racing incidents all season — and that this one wasn’t judged by the same “let them race” standard.

It all piled into a costly weekend: Hamilton’s second straight five-second sanction after Silverstone, plus a €30,000 fine for an unsafe release when a mechanic was still adjusting his front wing as he pulled away. Hamilton focused on damage limitation after a heavy FP3 crash and pointed to underlying pace and more performance to come, while Ferrari’s bigger frustration is the lack of consistency in where the line is drawn on lap-one contact.

#F1 #BelgianGP #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #GeorgeRussell #SpaFrancorchamps

Mercedes told George Russell they were “happy with

Mercedes told George Russell they were “happy with SOC level” on the formation lap at Spa, even reminding him about the boost press out of Turn 2. But when the lights went out, Russell’s car simply didn’t deploy or recharge as expected. From P3, he was swallowed on the run to Les Combes, then made contact with Lewis Hamilton while trying to re-pass and spun out before completing a lap.

Over the radio Russell raged about having “no battery” down the straight, then later called it “dangerous” and said he’s “numb to the disappointment now.” He labelled the clash a racing incident, making it clear his bigger concern was a system failure that put him in a fight he shouldn’t have been in. It’s Russell’s third non-score in six races, leaving him 50 points behind team-mate Kimi Antonelli, who took his sixth win of the season in the other Mercedes.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #Mercedes #GeorgeRussell #MotorsportNews

Red Bull is lining up Tom Hart to become Max Verst

Red Bull is lining up Tom Hart to become Max Verstappen’s race engineer from 2027, taking over when Gianpiero Lambiase’s long exit finally happens. With Lambiase already announced as McLaren’s future chief racing officer (no later than 2028), Red Bull has moved to make the handover a managed transition rather than a scramble — and to stop Hart leaving for Williams, where he had been set to work with Alex Albon.

Hart has been building mileage in the role through test duties and previous stand-ins, and Red Bull is even considering giving him a few substitute weekends this year to ease the change. The bigger uncertainty is Verstappen himself: despite a contract to 2028, talks with McLaren and an exit clause tied to his standings position have turned the situation from background noise into real pressure, with Verstappen currently seventh. Keeping Hart, at least, is a stability win either way.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #GianpieroLambiase #TomHart #PaddockNews

Kimi Antonelli made Spa look routine, taking his s

Kimi Antonelli made Spa look routine, taking his sixth win of 2026 with a controlled Mercedes drive while chaos hit around him. George Russell’s race ended on lap one after contact with Lewis Hamilton, leaving him 50 points back with 12 races to go and Antonelli’s title run starting to feel less like a battle and more like an inevitability.

But Belgium also exposed a deeper problem: the 2026 cars are changing what F1 feels like at its most sacred venues. Spa’s long lap magnified the compromises, with paddock talk focused less on set-ups and more on how the track’s character seems “edited” under the new rules. Martin Brundle didn’t hold back, saying he had “a bit of a tear in my eye” and urging F1 to “get rid of this concept as soon as possible,” as V8 return rumours swirl. When Silverstone and Spa don’t hit the same, it stops being nostalgia and starts being a warning.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #KimiAntonelli #MercedesF1 #MartinBrundle

Oscar Piastri has hit out at the stewards’ “no fur

Oscar Piastri has hit out at the stewards’ “no further action” call after early wheel-to-wheel contact with Charles Leclerc at Spa, saying he was “on the white line” and got squeezed into Les Combes at around 300km/h. The touch left Leclerc unscathed, but floor damage compromised Piastri’s race and helped turn a fight for position into a P5 finish, 16 seconds behind the Ferrari in P2.

Piastri wasn’t demanding a penalty, but he wanted the risk acknowledged with at least a black-and-white warning flag. The stewards ruled there was “no possibility” the overtake could be completed and that Leclerc didn’t deliberately crowd him, but Piastri’s bigger point was about deterrence: if incidents like that draw nothing at all, the sport quietly shifts the boundary of what’s acceptable in the braking zone.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #OscarPiastri #CharlesLeclerc #McLaren

Ferrari’s Spa pit stop drama turned scary in a hea

Ferrari’s Spa pit stop drama turned scary in a heartbeat when Lewis Hamilton rolled forward on the green light and clipped a mechanic still working to the right of the car. Hamilton instantly braked and radioed in panic, flashing back to Ferrari’s infamous Bahrain 2018 incident, but the crew member got up and was confirmed “completely unhurt” with no medical help needed.

The stewards treated it as an unsafe release and a procedural breakdown, not a driver error, noting Hamilton stopped as soon as he realised what happened. Ferrari was fined £25,500 (with £8,500 suspended) and ordered to review its processes and report back to the FIA. Hamilton still salvaged P4 after serving a five-second penalty, but the bigger takeaway was a stark reminder of how quickly pit-lane margins can turn into a safety crisis.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #LewisHamilton #Ferrari #PitStop

George Russell’s Belgian GP unravelled before the

George Russell’s Belgian GP unravelled before the stewards ever entered the picture. Running third on lap one, he said his Mercedes battery “decided not to recharge” out of La Source, leaving him around 35% down on state of charge, then at zero by the time he hit Kemmel. With no deployment and a boost issue that “didn’t sort itself out,” Russell was swallowed by three cars into Les Combes and ended up in the gravel after contact with Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari.

Russell called the clash a racing incident, but aimed his anger at the bigger issue: being left exposed on one of F1’s fastest straights, describing it as “unacceptable” and “dangerous.” It’s also another hit in a bruising run — his third non-score in six races — as team-mate Kimi Antonelli’s win extends a 50-point championship lead. Russell insists he’ll keep fighting, but Mercedes now has to make sure he’s battling the field, not his own energy system.

#F1 #BelgianGP #GeorgeRussell #MercedesAMG #SpaFrancorchamps #LewisHamilton

Martin Brundle has delivered one of the sharpest w

Martin Brundle has delivered one of the sharpest warnings yet about F1’s 2026 rules after seeing Silverstone and Spa up close, saying the sport is “losing all the great corners” as energy harvesting and deployment reshape how drivers can attack. What should be high-speed commitment sections are becoming managed zones, and he wants the concept binned “as soon as possible,” not patched later.

The concern is echoed across the paddock: Fernando Alonso flagged energy management issues early at Spa, Max Verstappen likened parts of the lap to “Formula 3 power with F1 downforce,” and both Lando Norris and Kimi Antonelli said Pouhon was flat — with Norris calling it “not a corner anymore.” F1 has tweaks planned for 2027/28, while FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is pushing a sustainable-fuel V8 return by 2030/31, but Brundle’s point is more fundamental: if iconic circuits stop rewarding bravery, the sport risks editing out its own soul.

#F1 #Formula1 #SpaGP #Silverstone #F12026 #MotorsportNews

George Russell’s Belgian GP ended on Lap 1 at Spa,

George Russell’s Belgian GP ended on Lap 1 at Spa, but he was furious at Mercedes, not Lewis Hamilton, after their opening-lap contact. Russell said the team effectively sent him into the start with “no battery”, unleashing a blistering radio message and calling the situation “unacceptable” after a weekend already shadowed by an ongoing issue he claims has affected his car for several races.

Russell explained the battery didn’t recharge at Turn 1, triggering boost problems and leaving him at 0% charge heading through Eau Rouge, which he described as “dangerous” as he got swamped by faster cars. He labelled the clash with Hamilton a racing incident, but the bigger damage was another preventable DNF as Kimi Antonelli extended his points advantage to 50 — and Russell admitted he’s becoming “numb” to the disappointment. Mercedes now has a reliability problem to fix, and a trust problem to rebuild.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #GeorgeRussell #MercedesAMG #MotorsportNews

Lewis Hamilton’s Spa Sunday turned sour almost imm

Lewis Hamilton’s Spa Sunday turned sour almost immediately when a Turn 5 lunge on George Russell ended in contact: the Ferrari washed wide with understeer, clipped Russell’s Mercedes, and sent him into the gravel and out of the Belgian GP. Stewards judged Russell had left racing room and handed Hamilton a five-second penalty for causing a collision.

Hamilton finished P4, still insisting it was a racing incident, but also pointing to the wider damage: floor loss that cost significant downforce, plus a weekend already compromised by his FP3 crash and a knock-on set-up and qualifying hangover. Russell avoided turning it into a feud too, calling it a racing incident and noting his battery hit 0% through Eau Rouge, leaving him exposed on the Kemmel Straight. Points salvaged, a podium left on the table, and a bitter reminder of how quickly margins disappear at Spa.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #LewisHamilton #GeorgeRussell #Ferrari

Red Bull insists the rear-wing issue that twice pu

Red Bull insists the rear-wing issue that twice put Max Verstappen in what he called a “super dangerous” moment is now understood and fixed, with the team targeting a return of the upgraded active-aero wing as soon as next weekend in Hungary. After the Austria and Silverstone incidents, Red Bull reverted to an older-spec wing for Spa while it investigated.

Technical director Pierre Waché says the root cause was a mechanical problem linked to the wing’s operation during its switch between straight-line and cornering modes, triggering rear aero disruption and loss of control. Red Bull has strengthened the relevant parts, has been in discussions with the FIA, and says the regulator is satisfied — but the team wants to be “bulletproof” before running it again, potentially starting with a cautious practice-only reintroduction in Budapest.

#F1 #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #ActiveAero #HungarianGP #BelgianGP

Ferrari leave Spa with Lewis Hamilton’s P4 intact,

Ferrari leave Spa with Lewis Hamilton’s P4 intact, but a €30,000 fine for an unsafe release — with €10,000 suspended for 12 months. The FIA cleared Hamilton entirely, ruling he was “in no respect at fault” after he made light contact with a mechanic during a chaotic VSC double-stack stop. The crew member was unhurt, and Hamilton immediately stopped to check on his wellbeing.

Stewards said the issue was procedural: a late front wing adjustment request wasn’t relayed to the super controller, so a mechanic approached with tools as the green light released the car. With no sporting advantage gained, Hamilton avoids any further penalty and leaves Belgium up to P2 in the standings, 45 points behind Kimi Antonelli. Ferrari must now review its pit procedures and report back to the FIA, which made clear that safety failures in the pitlane won’t be treated lightly.

#F1 #BelgianGP #Ferrari #LewisHamilton #FIA #PitStop

Kimi Antonelli left Spa with more than a win: he l

Kimi Antonelli left Spa with more than a win: he left with daylight in the title fight. The Mercedes rookie-turned-championship leader claimed his sixth victory of 2026 and stretched his advantage to 45 points, recovering from a messy start, overturning a Virtual Safety Car swing that briefly handed Charles Leclerc track position, then controlling the finish with calm authority.

Across the garage, George Russell’s weekend fell apart again, ending in a DNF and renewed talk of a power loss he believes is costing him. Antonelli didn’t deny there was a “slight issue,” but his take cut deeper: on an energy-demanding track like Spa, these tightly managed systems can react wildly if you’re not perfectly in sync with how the car wants to be driven. Budapest is next, and Mercedes now has a clear benchmark — the driver making the complicated look simple.

#F1 #BelgianGP #MercedesF1 #KimiAntonelli #GeorgeRussell #Formula1

Oscar Piastri rarely lights up the media pen, whic

Oscar Piastri rarely lights up the media pen, which is why his Spa verdict on F1’s 2026 power units landed so hard. “It sucks,” he said, arguing the new hybrid era is stripping agency from drivers as energy deployment becomes increasingly governed by self-learning systems that can feel opaque and unpredictable from the cockpit.

With the near 50/50 split between combustion and electric power, Piastri says laps can be shaped by software “behaving or misbehaving”, where tiny variables — even what you do on the out-lap — can swing straight-line performance and qualifying margins. He stressed it’s not a single-manufacturer problem, and while the rules are set to shift more toward the combustion engine in 2027 and 2028, he doubts that alone will fix calibration and “learning” behaviour that doesn’t feel like racing.

#F1 #OscarPiastri #McLaren #F12026 #HybridEra #SpaGP

Toto Wolff has reignited F1’s 2026 engine politica

Toto Wolff has reignited F1’s 2026 engine political fight by declaring Mercedes has “the most powerful power unit” after Spa, even as the FIA’s ADUO grading has flagged Red Bull as strongest on the internal combustion side. That matters because ADUO is ICE-only, and being rated best effectively locks Red Bull out of extra upgrade opportunities, while Mercedes and others still have at least one.

Wolff framed Mercedes’ Belgian GP pain as a straight-line power issue plus a season-long reliability tax, insisting he’d rather fix fragility than chase more performance. But with hybrids set to be roughly 50/50 ICE and electrical in 2026, his quote hands Red Bull fresh ammunition to challenge the framework’s optics and outcomes. As Mercedes’ lead over Ferrari tightens, the argument has shifted from who’s quickest to who gets permission to get quicker.

#F1 #Mercedes #RedBullRacing #TotoWolff #2026Regulations #PowerUnit

George Russell’s Belgian GP was over before it eve

George Russell’s Belgian GP was over before it ever got going, and the contact with Lewis Hamilton at Les Combes was only the headline. Russell said he felt “numb” after an opening-lap energy deployment failure left him exposed from Turn 1 onward: the battery didn’t recharge, he exited the corner 35% down, then a boost issue followed and he crested Eau Rouge with 0% deployment. On the Kemmel Straight he was a sitting duck, swamped by cars and forced into the wrong fights.

Hamilton was handed a five-second penalty for causing the collision that sent Russell into the gravel, but Russell himself framed it as “one of those things” — angrier that Mercedes still doesn’t know why the systems failed. With Antonelli winning again and stretching his title lead, Spa underlined how quickly momentum disappears when the car’s fundamentals don’t show up.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #GeorgeRussell #MercedesF1 #LewisHamilton

Carlos Sainz didn’t leave Spa talking about fine d

Carlos Sainz didn’t leave Spa talking about fine details. He sounded like a driver convinced F1 is cornering itself with energy management — superclipping, harvesting and visibly constrained laps at the very circuits that sell the sport’s “feel”. In the paddock, the numbers were blunt: around 50km/h down at the end of Blanchimont and roughly 40km/h down through Pouhon versus last year in qualifying trim, enough to change the character of a track built on commitment.

After finishing 16th, Sainz called it “not good enough for Formula One” and said drivers aren’t enjoying these cars like last year. He warned Monza could expose it even more, with straights dictated by energy cuts, and he poured cold water on 2026 hype too — doubting that small ratio tweaks will fix the problem and arguing the sport has pushed the electrical side too far. For Sainz, Spa wasn’t an outlier. It was a flare.

#F1 #CarlosSainz #SpaFrancorchamps #F12026 #Monza #Formula1

Lewis Hamilton’s Spa run unraveled at Les Combes a

Lewis Hamilton’s Spa run unraveled at Les Combes after contact with George Russell ended Russell’s race on the spot and left Hamilton carrying a five-second penalty. The incident was set up by an early “yo-yo” phase as battery deployment and harvesting reshuffled the pack; Russell lost momentum on the Kemmel Straight, Hamilton (now in Ferrari red) swept by, and Russell tried to reclaim the place around the outside under braking.

Russell initially called it a racing incident, but the stewards blamed Hamilton. For Russell it’s a brutal, momentum-killing DNF in a weekend that was already slipping away, while Hamilton survives with a manageable but costly self-inflicted handicap in a race where track position can matter more than the stopwatch. Former team-mates, familiar habits, and one clumsy overlap made it feel bigger than just one corner.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #LewisHamilton #GeorgeRussell #Ferrari

Spa has found another way to punish Carlos Sainz.

Spa has found another way to punish Carlos Sainz. Williams spotted a battery pack fault on race morning and swapped the Energy Store Main Enclosure, triggering an automatic 10-place grid penalty. He drops from 14th to 19th, but a wider penalty pile-up means it’s effectively only a five-place loss on the final grid.

The reshuffle is brutal elsewhere: Lando Norris falls from P3 to P13 with a 10-place penalty, Lance Stroll also takes 10, Fernando Alonso gets 20, and Isack Hadjar is hit with 30. Sainz lines up 19th, ahead of Stroll, with Hadjar and Alonso set for 21st and 22nd. After a weekend already spent batting off steward drama and a Friday clash of words, Sainz now starts in the most chaotic part of the pack at a circuit that rarely forgives the first lap.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #CarlosSainz #WilliamsF1 #F1News

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