Max Verstappen and Lando Norris were in opposition to one another before Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix was even allowed to get underway due to safety concerns over the rain

F1 world championship leader Oscar Piastri extends his title lead over Lando Norris to 16 points with his sixth win of the season; Charles Leclerc beats Max Verstappen to third, as Lewis Hamilton recovers from 18th to seventh;

McLaren's Lando Norris has struck back against team-mate Oscar Piastri by taking his fourth pole of the 2025 Formula 1 season at the Belgian Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen said the decision to delay the start of the Belgian Grand Prix due to heavy rain was "disappointing" and an overly cautious.

Charles Leclerc took home a respectable third place for Ferrari, with Max Verstappen largely powerless in fourth. Lewis Hamilton, who started in the pit-lane, recovered impressively to come home in seventh to conclude a wretched weekend for the seven-time world champion.

He won in Australia at the start of the season when it hammered down. He won at Silverstone last time out when it also poured with rain. Now Lando Norris is hoping to make it a hat-trick of wet weather wins for the year after claiming pole position at a Spa circuit which is braced for its traditional race-day monsoon.

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Oscar Piastri won a rain-affected Belgian Grand Prix to extend his lead at the top of the drivers’ standings to 16 points over McLaren teammate Lando Norris, who finished second after starting on pole.