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Campos Racing’s Spa Sunday has turned into one of

Campos Racing’s Spa Sunday has turned into one of the season’s strangest post-race rulings in Formula 2. Noel Leon has been disqualified from the Belgian feature race (after initially finishing P7) following an FIA investigation into a red-flag period where a “Non-Operational Personnel” guest was seen using a radio headset fitted with a microphone — equipment that regulations restrict to listen-only for guests.

Campos said it was an inadvertent mix-up, but the stewards stressed the team is responsible, especially after the guest was explicitly told the mic-equipped headset wasn’t permitted and then continued to use it. The penalty package is heavy: Leon DSQ, a €20,000 fine, plus a suspended 25-point championship deduction for Campos if a similar breach happens within 12 months. Nikola Tsolov keeps his Spa results, with the FIA ruling the guest was linked exclusively to Leon’s side of the garage — leaving Tsolov atop the standings heading to Hungary.

#Formula2 #SpaFrancorchamps #FIA #CamposRacing #NoelLeon #NikolaTsolov

Max Verstappen left Spa with P3 and his third podi

Max Verstappen left Spa with P3 and his third podium of 2026, but the unseen radio told a harsher story: a Red Bull quick enough to fight, yet inconsistent enough to drain his patience. From the opening lap he flagged “completely wrong” energy deployment, then questioned battery charging on restarts, complained of “horrendous” clipping, lag and “awful” shifts, and later a familiar tyre problem he compared to Silverstone.

The flashpoint came when a suggestion to save energy drew a sharp “no race understanding” before Verstappen immediately walked it back: “Don’t take that personal.” In the end he still dragged it onto the rostrum, called it “a nice podium,” and team boss Laurent Mekies thanked him for “bearing with us” while promising more performance to come. Professionalism under strain, with third place treated as damage limitation.
#F1 #MaxVerstappen #RedBullRacing #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #MotorsportNews

Spa exposed a raw nerve at Mercedes. Toto Wolff sn

Spa exposed a raw nerve at Mercedes. Toto Wolff snapped back on live TV when pressed about George Russell’s struggles, insisting on “100 per cent support” as the team tries to stop the narrative turning into a simple driver-blame story.

From third on the grid, Russell looked powerless on the run to Kemmel, angry on the radio as the car ran out of battery, and Mercedes now admits there were “deployment differences” versus Kimi Antonelli’s car. Russell changed his driving and the issue stayed, before contact with Lewis Hamilton at Les Combes ended his race in the gravel. Wolff called it a racing incident, framed Russell’s wider slump as 50/50, but pinned Spa itself on the team’s side — while Antonelli won again and opened a 50-point gap. Mercedes heads to Hungary needing one thing fast: Russell’s car deploying like his team-mate’s, before this becomes more than a bad weekend.

#F1 #BelgianGP #MercedesF1 #GeorgeRussell #TotoWolff #SpaFrancorchamps

Alpine will tick off another part of its 2026 rook

Alpine will tick off another part of its 2026 rookie requirement in Budapest by handing Paul Aron Franco Colapinto’s car for FP1 at the Hungarian GP. It’s Aron’s third Friday run of the season, a notable call at a tight, low-speed circuit where giving up an hour of normal prep can sting, but it keeps Alpine on track with the rule that demands four rookie FP1 outings across the year.

For Aron, it’s another visible step after recent stand-in sessions with Audi, and a chance to add more relevant mileage with his “parent” team. For Colapinto, it’s a brief interruption rather than a setback as his 2026 campaign settles into something more consistent: he arrives 12th in the standings with points in six of the first 10 rounds, fresh from P10 at Spa ahead of Pierre Gasly. Elsewhere, McLaren and Haas are also rotating FP1 seats in Hungary as teams manage the same rookie-run balancing act.

#F1 #HungarianGP #AlpineF1Team #PaulAron #FrancoColapinto #FP1

Fernando Alonso says Aston Martin’s upgrades won’t

Fernando Alonso says Aston Martin’s upgrades won’t decide his future — the 2026 rules will. With his contract running to the end of 2026, he plans to assess things after the summer break, but his focus isn’t this year’s results. It’s whether the next-generation cars deliver a driving experience he still wants, especially at places like Spa and Silverstone.

Aston Martin is set to bring a major chassis step in Hungary, with a Honda power unit update due at Zandvoort, and Alonso still believes the team’s true potential is higher than what it’s shown so far. But even with Newey shaping the long-term direction and the project gathering momentum, Alonso’s bottom line is clear: if the 2026-era machinery doesn’t feel right, that will shape whether he’s still on the grid in 2027.

#F1 #FernandoAlonso #AstonMartinF1 #F12026 #HungarianGP #MotorsportNews

Spa was a brutal mirror for Aston Martin: an alrea

Spa was a brutal mirror for Aston Martin: an already-struggling package exposed on a circuit that punishes inefficiency, leaving Fernando Alonso visibly unimpressed and the team drifting on the wrong side of the midfield. Mike Krack didn’t sugar-coat it either, saying they’re “counting the days” to Budapest because the AMR26 finally gets the chassis update they’ve been building toward instead of drip-feeding smaller fixes.

Hungary is the make-or-break moment for a “quite extensive” aero-and-weight package led by Adrian Newey’s design direction, with hopes of giving both Alonso and Lance Stroll the same spec if parts allow. No promises on lap time, just a clear target: “go back racing” and show proof of life before a separate Honda power-unit step arrives after the break.

#F1 #AstonMartinF1 #FernandoAlonso #HungarianGP #AMR26 #AdrianNewey

Spa’s opening lap exposed a nagging Mercedes myste

Spa’s opening lap exposed a nagging Mercedes mystery: George Russell’s furious launch wasn’t just a bad getaway, but a measurable “deployment difference” versus Kimi Antonelli. Mercedes initially pinned it on driving style and Russell adapted, yet the data still shows the cars aren’t deploying energy the same way — an uncomfortable gap that affects more than starts. The result was immediate damage: Russell’s compromised launch helped trigger the Les Combes chain reaction that ended with contact and an early retirement, while Antonelli converted the chaos into victory and a 50-point championship lead. Toto Wolff insists there’ll be no team orders, but that approach gets harder when the machinery isn’t behaving identically.

Ferrari left Spa frustrated too, with Fred Vasseur calling Lewis Hamilton’s five-second penalty “harsh” and out of step with the season’s usual Lap 1 leniency. Meanwhile, Red Bull’s long game is taking shape: Tom Hart is set to become Max Verstappen’s race engineer from 2027 as GianPiero Lambiase steps aside, underlining how fiercely teams fight to keep key talent as well as points.

#F1 #BelgianGP #MercedesAMG #KimiAntonelli #GeorgeRussell #RedBullRacing

Spa exposed Racing Bulls’ split-spec gamble. While

Spa exposed Racing Bulls’ split-spec gamble. While rookie Arvid Lindblad ran the only upgraded VCARB 03 and converted it into Q3 and a ninth-place finish, Liam Lawson was left on the older package and spent Sunday losing every straight-line fight. “Every single wheel-to-wheel combat I had today, I lost on the straights,” he reported on the in-lap, with the team admitting “something” wasn’t right.

Lawson’s early pace faded into a race-long drag-race disadvantage, including a tense wheel-to-wheel moment with Lindblad through Eau Rouge that sent Lawson into the gravel and was noted but not penalised. He was also picked off by rivals on the Kemmel Straight, finishing 12th and out of the points for the first time in six races. With Lawson still 10th in the standings on 39 points, the bigger task now is clear: find whether this was simply the older spec, or a deeper deployment/set-up issue that left one side of the garage outgunned.

#F1 #BelgianGP #SpaFrancorchamps #RacingBulls #LiamLawson #ArvidLindblad

Valtteri Bottas has shut down the latest chatter l

Valtteri Bottas has shut down the latest chatter linking Cadillac to Colton Herta for 2027, and implying Bottas would be the one to make way. Speaking ahead of Spa, he said the team quickly told him the claims were “completely false,” and he’s not getting pulled into contract what-ifs amplified by social media.

The rumours have gained traction as Cadillac’s debut season drags on without a point and Bottas’ qualifying trend versus Sergio Perez has invited scrutiny. But both Bottas and team boss Graeme Lowdon insist there’s no truth to it. For Bottas, the message is clear: no silly season, just a job to do, and a scoreboard he knows he needs to improve.

#F1 #ValtteriBottas #CadillacF1 #ColtonHerta #BelgianGP #SillySeason

McLaren will sit Oscar Piastri out for FP1 at the

McLaren will sit Oscar Piastri out for FP1 at the Hungaroring, handing the MCL40 to Leonardo Fornaroli as the expanded rookie-session quota starts shaping Friday mornings. It’s Fornaroli’s second official outing of the year after Barcelona, and with four FP1 sessions per car now effectively reserved, teams are treating these hours as real work: collecting usable data while quietly assessing future options.

For Fornaroli, the brief is simple and high-stakes: execute the run plan, deliver credible feedback, and keep the weekend clean as he builds a route back toward the grid for 2027. Haas is doing the same, putting Ryo Hirakawa in Ollie Bearman’s car for FP1 — his eighth FP1 overall — aiming for cleaner, more representative laps than a disrupted Austria session. At a set-up sensitive, unforgiving Hungaroring, this isn’t box-ticking anymore. It’s an audition with consequences.

#F1 #HungarianGP #McLaren #HaasF1Team #FP1 #F1Rookies

Red Bull’s long-running Verstappen dilemma has nev

Red Bull’s long-running Verstappen dilemma has never been about finding someone to beat Max, but someone who can add real value alongside him. At Spa, Isack Hadjar did exactly that: a perfectly judged qualifying tow worth around 0.4s helped flip Verstappen from a projected P6 to P2 on the grid, and that track position turned into a crucial P3 on Sunday.

Then Hadjar backed it up with a statement drive of his own. With engine penalties dropping him to 21st, he leaned into an aggressive, “slightly unusual” strategy that ultimately worked, climbed to P6, and earned huge praise from Laurent Mekies — who called it Hadjar’s best Red Bull race so far and even hinted at top-three pace. The bigger point is consistency: points in seven of the first 10 races, an on-merit outqualifying at Silverstone, and now a weekend where he moved the needle for the team in every direction.

#F1 #BelgianGP #RedBullRacing #MaxVerstappen #IsackHadjar #SpaFrancorchamps

Toto Wolff’s offhand claim in Belgium that Mercede

Toto Wolff’s offhand claim in Belgium that Mercedes has “the most powerful power unit” has become a flashpoint for F1’s new 2026 policing — because the FIA’s ADUO catch-up framework has just labelled Red Bull Powertrains’ internal combustion engine as the benchmark, with Mercedes second. That split matters: it hands Mercedes one development opportunity for the next window, while Ferrari, Audi and Honda get two, even as Mercedes has opened the season with five wins from five in the first period.

Red Bull’s response added fuel rather than fire. Laurent Mekies didn’t protest — he agreed, pointing to recurring straight-line speed traces that keep showing Mercedes ahead most weekends. The nuance is the whole story: ADUO focuses on ICE metrics, while the on-track “power unit” picture is a 50/50 blend with electrical output, harvesting, deployment and integration. Belgium only sharpened the contrast as Mercedes stretched its lead and Red Bull quietly watched the rules — and the definitions — do the talking ahead of the next ADUO checkpoint in Budapest.

#F1 #Mercedes #RedBullRacing #PowerUnit #ADUO #BelgianGP

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

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