Belgian Grand Prix practice - radio & text

BBC News

25-07-2025

Update:
Date: 11:21 BST
Title: Coming up
Content: There's just the one practice session this weekend because the Belgian Grand Prix features a sprint race.
Here's today's key timings (all BST):
Practice session: 11:30-12:30 (BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 2, BBC Sounds and smart speakers)
Sprint qualifying: 15:30-16:14 (BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 2, BBC Sounds and smart speakers)
Update:
Date: 11:18 BST
Title: Norris feeling 'more of a threat'
Content: Andrew BensonBBC F1 correspondent at Spa-Francorchamps
Lando
Norris says he feels 'more of a threat' to McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri
after progress made in his understanding and feel for the car in recent races.
Norris comes to the Belgian Grand Prix on the back of
consecutive victories in Austria and Britain, albeit he inherited the
Silverstone win after Piastri was penalised for driving ing dangerously behind
the safety car.
'Do I feel more of a threat now? Yes,' Norris said.
'But am I happy enough still with where I'm at, where the car is and my harmony
with the car? It's still not to the level that I want.'
A new part in the front suspension of the McLaren -
which was introduced to help Norris feel the front tyres more, but which
Piastri does not feel he needs and is not using - has helped Norris, but he has
also worked on his driving with the team behind the scenes. Yet he says he
still does not feel quite back to the the level he was at last year, when he
was consistently the fastest McLaren driver.
'I certainly feel happier. Austria was a place I felt
the happiest, even happier than I was in Silverstone. With the car, with the
knowledge of where I can push, how I can push and all those things.
'We're still trying to work on things to give me more
from the car in order to allow me to unlock that more often, like I was doing
last season,' said Norris.
'The most positive thing from those two weekends was
just that the pace was better from the off and I was more comfortable with the
car and in understanding how to get the most pace from it. At times that brings
more of a smile to my face than just winning the race itself. Because it's
progress, it's seen progress and that's always a very good thing, it's a very
rewarding thing.'
Update:
Date: 11:15 BST
Title: Title battle heating up
Content: Things are heating up in the title race as we move into the second half of the seaosn.
After winning the past two grands prix, Lando Norris has narrowed the gap in the drivers' championship to his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri to eight points.
Will Norris complete a hat-trick of race wins at the Belgium Grand Prix this weekend?