That's how it is Lando Norris. Capable of the best and worst. In the Sprint format of the weekend of Belgium he was surpassed by Piastri and an imperial vastoppen. But right after, he changed. In the classification of this Saturday, Lando was back in a big way to sign the pole for only 85 thousandths of advantage over his partner and great rival for the world title of F1, Oscar Piostri (2nd).
The two McLaren will start from the first line to continue their fight for the crown. The Australian only takes 9 points to English. And the rain approaches this Sunday's race. The emotion seems assured as long as the water falls in a controlled or intermittent way, since they already know what happened in 2021, when the null visibility for the heavy rain prevented it from competing, only with a few laps behind the 'Safert Car'.
In the classification of this Saturday you had to put more than ever the mind in the clouds this Sunday, adding more aerodynamic load in the cars to have better performance in rain and avoid the disaster that starred in Water in water in Silverstone a few weeks ago. Precisely, that can explain that Max was not in the fight for pole as it was on Friday in the short classification. He put more load on his Red Bull and thus could not compete at a turn before the superiority of orange cars. The Dutch was 4th to 3 tenths of the best chrono and only had to regret having lost third place to Leclerc for only 3 thousandths.
Leclerc pulls Ferrari's car and Hamilton Falla
The Monegasco continues to pull the Ferrari car, which had very hopeful this weekend by premiering a new rear suspension with which they wanted to take a huge step.
We will have to wait to see if they achieve it when they refine adjustments in upcoming appointments. At the moment, what is still the same is Hamilton's disaster. The English had problems in the 'qualy' sprint on Friday and this resulted in an improper failure for a 7 -time champion, with a spin in the last Chicane when stopping too much. And a day later, the British made another mistake: the track limits were jumped in curve 4, at the climb to Raidillon, so his time was canceled and was eliminated in Q1 (16º).
Albon, the surprise; Sainz, far
The best in the rest was Alex Albon's Williams, the great surprise of the classification, managing to qualify ahead of a Russell that if it rains could suffer, since his records in the first and third sector betray him: George could go with less aerodynamic load and in water could sink.
It was one of lime and another of sand for Williams, since Carlos Sainz fell eliminated in Q2, in the 15th place, far from his goal after a weekend that was so far being good for the Madrid, since he signed a magnificent 6th place in the Sprint format.
Aston Martin disappoints
Without a doubt, wave great disappointment of the classification was Aston Martin. It is not a conducive circuit for its car, but the green team has gone from fighting constantly, to come to bass in Spa-Francorchamps. It has not been an easy weekend for them. They were added work load on an appointment with less time to be sprint format to test novelties that arrived early. Finally, they went to the classification without these evolutions (they also carried the old floor due to heights on this track). And the result was the worst.
The two green cars ended up being the red lantern. Alonso was 19th and stayed 4 tenths from the cut in Q1. And Stroll was last. The rain could be the only one that saves its weekend. And by starting from so back, there is the temptation to break the closed park in search of changes or a more risky starting strategy. But for now, Spa is not being the appointment they would like.
