00:00Welcome back to Formula One in 2025.
00:03Our season continues at a truly historic venue,
00:07known the world over as one of the great challenges in all of racing.
00:13You see the lights have extinguished on the Aston Martin safety car.
00:17That tells us that we are going to go racing at the end of the lap.
00:22It is time for the green flag to fly at Spa.
00:26Let's go racing at one of the great circuits on the planet.
00:30Norris leads the field back.
00:32Green flag racing at Spa.
00:35And round 13 of the Formula One World Championship is underway.
00:38Oscar Piastri peers through the spray, gets out of the braking zone.
00:42Norris, Piastri, Leclerc, Verstappen and Albon is the top five
00:46as we are about to dip down the hill and then climb it.
00:49Who's got the bravery through a rouge on lap one?
00:51Lando had a bit of a slide trying to get on the gas.
00:53Look at how close Oscar Piastri is to his teammate.
00:56Hurrying him through.
00:58He's going to have an immediate opportunity.
01:00The two contenders for the title side by side.
01:03Not anymore they're not.
01:05Oscar Piastri on the attack to the race lead by turn five.
01:10He said earlier on he was looking at the conditions at a rouge.
01:13Could he do it flat out?
01:14I wonder how far away he was there.
01:16The confidence he's got on this first lap has got him the race lead.
01:20It's what I said is his best chance if he can find that grip first and he has done exactly
01:24that.
01:26The drivers are thinking about moves further back in the pack including George Russell
01:30who gets to the inside of Alex Albon and takes fifth position.
01:35So a lap to assess the conditions and the Mercedes man gets past the Williams.
01:40This is Lewis Hamilton trying to unleash some spa magic once again.
01:44Carlos Sainz is the Williams in front.
01:46At least he was late on the breaks.
01:49And that's a confident move for Hamilton as Antonelli goes wide in the background.
01:53Yeah really nice stuff there for Hamilton.
01:56Here comes Hamilton around the outside of Colopinto.
01:58Lovely move for Lewis Hamilton who seems a driver transformed compared to earlier in the weekend.
02:03He said it was a weekend to forget.
02:05Maybe not.
02:07Antonelli he will be hoping to try and find his way by.
02:11And finding his way by is something that Lewis Hamilton is doing time and time again.
02:16That's the move he was looking for two weeks ago.
02:18Getting past Hülkenberg.
02:19Hamilton putting a charge together now.
02:23Hamilton undoing a lot of the damage of qualifying when he had his time deleted for track limits.
02:29And he at the moment just has a command of the car that is superior.
02:33You don't see many moves into Stavolo.
02:35There's another one for Lewis Hamilton.
02:39Lewis Hamilton has had a starring cameo in this Grand Prix.
02:44If the call for slick tyres is the right one.
02:47He might be about to be the leading man in this one.
02:51Because if you time this right today, you can transform your race.
02:56Race control are telling us it's normal grip conditions.
02:59McLaren agree.
03:00They are responding right now.
03:03This is Lewis Hamilton going through a rouge on those medium tyres.
03:08And let's see.
03:09This was him making the pass.
03:11Oh, it was close.
03:12That was Lawson that he got by on the same tyres.
03:17What about a hard tyre?
03:18We try to go to the end.
03:19What about a hard?
03:19Would you take it now?
03:22Hard tyre try and go to the end is the aim.
03:24Charles Leclerc gets past Ocon.
03:26And George Russell is very, very close.
03:28Look at this.
03:28It's nearly three wide through Blondheim.
03:30That is not a good idea.
03:31You've got the car of Esteban Ocon on the intermediate tyre.
03:35Those on the slicks are flying past with way more grip.
03:38As Oscar Piastri takes the lead on the racetrack.
03:41Lando Norris is 4.7 seconds back.
03:46This is Lando Norris asked about the hard tyres.
03:48He got the hard tyres, but it was slow on on the front left.
03:51It's just not put cleanly on there on the front left.
03:54And that has cost him some precious time.
03:58Here's Oli Behrman.
03:59Up behind Fernando Alonso, who's in a higher downforce Aston Martin.
04:02And he sells the dummy.
04:05Gets Alonso to defend.
04:06And uses the TRS to get ahead.
04:09And as he makes the move for 13th, Antonelli improves to 16th.
04:12So Lando, as an update, both cars will try and get to the end.
04:16We think the other car might have to do some pace management to make it work.
04:21And Oscar, what you're doing looks good.
04:23It's your call really on whether we try and get to the end on this tyre
04:26or we consider a pit stop for another one at the moment.
04:28Think try to get to the end.
04:30I could pull a little bit of thing already, so I think it will be tough to get to the
04:34end.
04:36Poo on corner, Lando Norris, lap 26.
04:39Backed out of it, was super cautious and rejoined the racetrack.
04:42It cost him a second.
04:44Yeah, well, he did the right thing there just to bail out,
04:46take a couple of downshifts, slow it down,
04:48rather than try and keep his foot in with a load of G on a more slippery part of the
04:53circuit.
04:55The last time around, Lando Norris did a 145.9.
04:58It was a 146.3 for Oscar Piastri.
05:01Medium tyre is degrading.
05:02We can see that from the tyre marbles.
05:04Discarded balls of rubber on the outside of Blanchemont corner.
05:07And one of the drivers really struggling is the man ahead of Lewis Hamilton.
05:11Alex Albon has been reporting to the team that his tyres are done.
05:16And that's the closest he's been since he left the pits.
05:21That's how hard Lando Norris is pushing.
05:23You can see what it cost him.
05:27Degg looks as expected.
05:28We still think the best thing is to go to the end of this tyre.
05:31Okay, I'm happy with that.
05:34Another pass heading into LACOM.
05:37This time it's going to be Kimi Antone trying to go around the outside.
05:40That's a tidy move for the man who's been struggling recently.
05:44But Ocon saw it coming.
05:45Positions the car well.
05:47And Ocon gets him back.
05:48He retakes P15.
05:51The gap at the front.
05:52Yeah, five and a half seconds.
05:54Lando doing his best lap of the race.
05:56But Oskar's holding that pace firm.
05:58It's tight.
05:59It's tight.
06:00It's about the ability of the driver in the lead to nurse the medium tyres to the end.
06:05It's about Norris going all in on the most durable tyre.
06:10As we go on to the penultimate tour.
06:13Piastri who leads the championship by nine points.
06:16Trying to score win number six of the world championship.
06:20And that was not the best rotation.
06:22And that could be the moment that the Grand Prix is decided.
06:26Lando Norris sees the gap move back up to four seconds.
06:31Oh, it's only a minor lockup.
06:33But there you go.
06:34Wide onto the kerb.
06:35A second lost.
06:37Momentum interrupted.
06:40Two corners to go for the Australian driver.
06:44Who when he comes out of turn 19.
06:46Will look up and see the checkered flag first.
06:50Oskar Piastri wins the Belgian Grand Prix.
06:54He beats his teammate to the win by 3.4 seconds.
06:59Win number six of the season.
07:01And championship lead extended for Oskar Piastri.
07:05As Charles Leclerc has kept Max Verstappen at bay.
07:09He was deep into the final chicane.
07:11But the gap is enough.
07:13It's Charles Leclerc who completes the podium.
07:15He denied Verstappen by 1.5 seconds.
07:19McLaren celebrate a 13th win at Spa.
07:22And it's a 1.2 as well.
07:25Great afternoon.
07:26Really good.
07:27Let's go.
07:28Really good job, mate.
07:29Really good.
07:30Nicely done.
07:31Nicely done.
07:33It is one of Formula One's fabled venues.
07:36It is a racetrack that every driver wants to triumph at.
07:40And this year, that triumph, that victory belongs to Oskar Piastri, who's taken the win.
07:51What's up is the rightful pose.
07:56A hard time.
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