Live Formula 1 race in Belgium, with Lando Norris in Pole-Position

• The Sprint race in Belgium was won by Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing).

• In qualifications, the most fast were, in this order, Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri, Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen.

Live »The Grand Prize of Formula 1 of Belgium. The race will start at 17:20

UPDATE 17:00: The safety machine came out on the circuit for a circuit inspection. The asphalt is considerably watered. The pilots are waiting for the speakers. Formula 1 officials have transmitted that the competition will start at 17:20.

UPDATE 16:55. He gave the sun in Belgium, but the rain has not yet stopped.

“The rooms have just surprised a small portion of blue sky on a portion of the track. The rain seems to have been calmed, and the sun has even come out – but this is such a long run that it is raining on one side and it is the sun on the other,” Formula 1 officials said.

Fans face the rain in Belgium

• The pilots are still in the speakers, the fans are trying to avoid rain with pilgrims and umbrellas.

• At this moment, the pilots returned to the speakers.

• Incredible! After the pilots came out on the circuit, the red flag appeared, due to the abundant water on the route. It rains torrentially at the spa, and the start is postponed.

• The race started. Now the training tour takes place. It's raining in Belgium.

The pilots returned to the speakers because of the rain at the MP of Belgium.

UPDATE 15:40. Rain in Belgium before the race

Photo: x @formula 1

Just a few minutes before the beginning of the race, it rains at the spa. It is chances that the rainfall will not stop at all throughout Belgium.

Lando Norris can overcome Oscar Piastri

Before the race with number 13, Oscar Piastri is a leader in the general ranking of pilots, with a total of 241 points accumulated so far. Lando Norris, the one who will leave the pole-postion today, has with 9 points in minus, recoverable in case they win the race, and the plate would finish below the 2nd place.

The third pilot in the general ranking, the champion of Max Verstappen en-titre, is at a great distance from the McLaren pair, with 173 points.

Three of the pilots removed from Q1 in qualifications, Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari), Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin), took this opportunity to make changes to the monopos. In all cases it was about changes above the permitted limit, so that All 3 will start today from the box line.

The starting grid in Belgium, with the mention that Hamilton, Alonso and Antonelli will leave the box line / photo: x @ f1