F1 2025 Belgium GP LIVE: Sprint qualifying start time, schedule and practice results at Spa

McLaren are dominating the constructor standings thus far.

7. Racing Bulls – 36 points

8. Aston Martin – 36 points

Here is how they stand at the halfway point this season, with 12 races completed at 12, including Spa this weekend, to come:

1. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) – 234 points

2. Lando Norris (McLaren) – 226 points

6. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) – 103 points

18. Ollie Bearman (Haas) – 6 points

Sprint qualifying is coming up this afternoon, ahead of tomorrow’s sprint race. Here’s what’s coming up this weekend at Spa:

Could Verstappen and Russell be teammates at Mercedes next season?

“This is all a long-shot, far-fetched. I want to stay with Kimi and George as it stands. Everything else is not realistic. If you have a Russell-Verstappen line-up, that’s Prost-Senna.”

Did Mercedes’ attempts to woo Verstappen force Red Bull’s hand?

“No. There is much more in the background that we probably don’t know with Red Bull.

“Looking after drivers, in my position as team principal of Mercedes, I need to explore what Max is going to do in the next few years, not only next year.”

Toto Wolff speaks to Sky Sports after practice, and he is asked whether he will miss his old rival Christian Horner following his sacking by Red Bull.

“In a way, yes. He was one of the main cast. I don’t think he’s gone forever, he could pop up in some other function – I need to be careful, he could rock up in the FIA then I’m really in the s***!

“He was someone that was controversial, polarising and not soft-washed. That was good from the entertainment factor and from that perspective he will be missed. His track record speaks for itself.”

Formula One leader Oscar Piastri showed impressive speed in sole practice for the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday with Max Verstappen starting Red Bull’s new era by denying champions McLaren the one-two.

Piastri was a hefty 0.404 quicker than four-times world champion Verstappen, whose team are racing without Christian Horner in charge for the first time since they entered the sport in 2005.

McLaren’s Lando Norris was third on the timesheets, 0.504 off the pace and with work to do if he is to reduce Piastri’s eight point lead.

With Belgium running to the sprint format, qualifying for Saturday’s 100km race replaces the usual second Friday practice session.

Mercedes George Russell, who won last year before being stripped of victory for an underweight car, was fourth fastest with teammate Kimi Antonelli sixth and separating the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.

Canadian Lance Stroll was eighth for Aston Martin with teammate Fernando Alonso ninth and Racing Bulls’ Isack Hadjar completing the top 10 as his former boss Laurent Mekies started work as Horner’s replacement.

Horner was dismissed after this month’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Piastri may have quickest in the winding, technical sector 2, but Red Bull and Mercedes had serious straight-line speed in sectors 1 and 3:

1. Oscar Piastri – 1:42.022

2. Max Verstappen – +0.404

4. George Russell – +0.576

5. Charles Leclerc – +0.906

6. Kimi Antonelli – +0.957

7. Lewis Hamilton – +1.063

9. Fernando Alonso – +1.098