{"id":296265,"date":"2025-07-27T16:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296265\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:09:13","slug":"live-reaction-to-oscar-piastri-masterclass-in-delayed-belgian-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/296265\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE: Reaction to Oscar Piastri masterclass in delayed Belgian GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lando Norris struck back at McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by securing pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix after the Australian&#8217;s impressive display the day prior.<\/p>\n<p>The Briton secured the Woking squad&#8217;s first pole at Spa-Francorchamps since Jenson Button in 2012, and will be hoping to convert it into his third victory on the bounce.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing Piastri by a mere nine points, the intra-McLaren battle is heating up, but team principal Andrea Stella would not be surprised to see Charles Leclerc leading by the end of the first lap.<\/p>\n<p>Starting alongside the Ferrari driver on the second row is sprint winner Max Verstappen, who will also pose an early threat to the two papaya cars.<\/p>\n<p>Further down the order, Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Antonelli will be hoping to work their way back into the points, having qualified P16 and P18, respectively. <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/fourth-f1-driver-consigned-to-belgian-gp-pit-lane-start-after-penalty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Both will start from the pit lane<\/a>, alongside Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso.<\/p>\n<p>Following along with the <strong>RacingNews365<\/strong> live coverage of the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lando Norris struck back at McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri by securing pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[859,1076,1074,1077,1075,997,707,998,1073,1072,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-296265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-lewis-hamilton","16":"tag-max-verstappen","17":"tag-motorsport","18":"tag-racing","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114926070305121648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}