Sprint Highlights | 2025 Belgian Grand Prix

The revs will rise. Turn the volume up and enjoy. The sprint race is underway. Perfect launch off the line for Oscar Pastry. That’s the first bit done. Max Stapen will angle the car. He tries to get the wide line and then he will try and boot the throttle as we are about to dip down the hill. Lando Norris is in a great position. Do you want to be too close at this part of the circuit? That is a perfect gap for Max 7 who’ll be gaining all the time up against Oscar Pestri as we fly through onto the camel straight. There’s no change at the moment. But look, I told you about this slipstream and it’s closing. It’s closing. Pastry is looking in the left mirror because Max Stappen is about to roar through late on the brakes. Mega move. Mega start race lead for Max. You absolutely nailed it through there. The gap was perfect for him. And Charlotte Clair has passed Lando Norris as well. Both McLaren’s have slipped back, but Vstappen had a bit of a wheel spin coming out of Lassour. It cost him a bit of drive. Left Norris really close to him, but you can’t use it when you’re that close. Norris was too close to Vstappen and Shalair got through. Norris drops down to fourth position. Max Vstappen leads the sprint race in Belgium. They’re fighting. That’s George Russell trying to get past Yuki Cenoda. Lap one of 15. Well, look how close Norris is, but he doesn’t make any more inroads on Vstappen. is Vistappen who charges up behind Pastri and Llair’s about to do something pretty tasty on the brakes there around the outside as well. We roar through Arouge. We climb the hill to Radon corner and we see Max Stappen looking out of the front of the car. He is confident in the straight line speed of the Red Bull. They go past the huge C just to check just to check where Piestri is. What about Lando Norris in the background? Lando Norris alongside and when he stands on the brakes he’ll go through and reclaim third position. What are we going to see here? The two race leaders knows the tail at Stavo as this Pastri trying to get closer at the other part of the circuit. There would be a conventional overtaking place. It’s on the end of that. Yeah, you can tell he’s pushing. Can Pastry find a way by here with his rival for the championship closing in. You see Pastri getting more and more animated at this part of the circuit, but it is going to turn into a threec car battle for the win. It’s the usual suspects out front. the world champion leading the two drivers desperate to replace him by the time we get to Abu Dhabi and the 24th Grand Prix of the year. Maxappen a bit wide in to the chicet. Yeah, he was just actually building the gap towards 1 second there as well. But that’s the closest it’s been all race at this part of the circuit. This is game on for the lead now. Got to be a clean exit from Vstappen. This is Pastri’s closest moment through lassource. They jump on the gas. He’s nicely positioned and he’s a bit closer. The the slipstream will have a bigger effect already. Then they’ll stay pinned down and up through Arouge and Pastry may well have his moment. Here we go then. It was a wide moment at the chicane that could have a change of lead and Vstappen for the first time has to deviate from his racing line. Pastry will go to the outside. No way through. And that was the most pressure Vstappen’s been on since lap one. But in the end it was not as close as we might have expected. I can’t break understood. If you ever get the chance to come to Spar Franco, you have to take the opportunity cuz there are so many amazing places to see these magnificent drivers and this prototype technology being used to the fullest. Last chance for Oscar Pastry. He’s still within that half a second window. The closest he got at one point is when Max Stafford made a mistake at the chicane. It left him vulnerable. It was the only time in this sprint race so far that he had to deviate from that racing line. Pastri has saved up the battery, but not enough. He gets the gap down to 3/10en of a second. And that was the last opportunity that wouldn’t carry a risk. And if you know the driver behind the wheel, the Australian is going to bank the points. All the talk at the start of this one was of Red Bull and the changes they’ve made. Well, here’s one thing that isn’t different. Max Stapen at the front getting to the final chicane in the lead and he took the lead at the start. He has stayed in P1. He knows this feeling in Belgium. Red Bull’s new era begins with a win. Max Stabin wins the sprint in Belgium. He beats the two McLarens and once again he has mastered Spar after 15 laps. They were separated by 1.4 seconds. But that epic move at the start means P1 at the finish. It’s Max for Stappen again in a sprint. He is by far the most successful driver in sprint history. That’s now 12 wins and no one else has any more than two. K. Nice job. Well managed. Nice. Very well done. Great job with the gaps and the battery. Really nice. Well done, guys. Well done, Max. Very, very impressive defense. Very very well controlled. Yeah. Thank you, Laur. That was a good start, Dad. I enjoyed that. Well done, Oscar. P2 just not quite enough straight line speed, I think, to get started. Yeah, just didn’t have enough sleep. So, well done. Grand Prix victory in Japan earlier in the year, as well as Ila and in front of so many of his supporters. Another moment to celebrate. [Music] [Music]

An early battle for the lead around the twists and turns of Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps! Catch up on all the highlights from the Sprint in Belgium.

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45 Comments

  1. Max making tractors look like well ……. ferraris and ferrari making ferraris look like well …… tractors 😂

  2. So the Red Bull is not the truck they are trying to sell us. Not only it can beat the McLarens, it can beat them without DRS.

  3. An unrestricted F1 car in 2025 could reach top speeds of *350-400 km/h (217-248 mph)* at Spa, particularly on Kemmel Straight, with lap times dropping to ~1:201:25. These figures assume breakthroughs in aerodynamics, powertrains, and materials, but are tempered by physical limits like tire durability and track layout. For context, current F1 cars hit ~330 km/h (205 mph) at Spa under 2024 regulations. Unrestricted development would push performance closer to theoretical limits, but practical constraints and driver physiology would still impose boundaries

  4. Lewis is the GOAT, amazing drive like always. Nobody is like him, Lewis is his own category. What a driver.

  5. P15 for the OLD DeLuLu dude….the Limey’s must be rolling out the conspiracy theories. Aliens from the planet Washedup sabotaged his setup 😂.

  6. Hard to watch the highlights, I’m glad I did not wake up for the sprint race. The highlights could have been 1 min and then the results. Boooooooring.

  7. It shows Piastri how he is no match to Max. Better car and Max toys with him. Put Piastri in another car an that guy would be just a footnote. He is probably going to be rank the worst world champion driver.

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