Victory at Spa extended Antonelli’s title lead — but Mercedes left Belgium confronting a power unit mystery that reaches every team it supplies: an unexplained straight-line deficit, a fourth engine for the championship leader, and an FIA rule change taking effect on August 1.
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Antonelli returned to the top step at Spa after a 44-lap duel with Leclerc — but the defining image of the 2026 Belgian Grand Prix was George Russell’s Mercedes beached in the Les Combes gravel after first-lap contact with Lewis Hamilton, a moment that reshaped the championship.
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A pole earned against a slipstream gambit, one of the greatest laps of Norris’s career erased by a penalty, and a Ferrari rebuilt in three hours to qualify two thousandths behind its sister car. Saturday at Spa, verdict by verdict.
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Eight tenths on Friday, four on Saturday, all of it on the straights — George Russell’s Mercedes is haemorrhaging speed for reasons the team cannot identify. From the karting trick that failed to Wolff’s U-turn, inside the gremlin shadowing the title fight.
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Pole for Antonelli, a tow gamble that nearly worked for Verstappen, and a stewards’ reshuffle that sent Norris to P13 and Hadjar, Alonso and Stroll to the back. The definitive Belgian GP grid and what it means for Sunday.
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Antonelli’s grip on the Spa weekend tightened in final practice — but the headlines belong to Hamilton’s last-lap crash at Fagnes, the second heavy shunt at Turn 13 in two days, which leaves Ferrari racing to rebuild before qualifying.
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Two red flags, one transformed Mercedes and a five-second chasm at the back — Friday at Spa sorted the paddock into those who cracked the 2026 energy puzzle and those left with a long night ahead. Our verdicts from the Ardennes.
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Four laps for Antonelli, seven for Verstappen, one for Leclerc — Friday at Spa left F1 with fragments instead of answers. Inside the race-pace clues that survived the red flags, and why Ferrari’s energy strategy could flip the weekend.
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Antonelli hit back at Spa with the only sub-1m46s lap of Friday, heading Norris and Verstappen in an afternoon twice interrupted — while Russell searched for answers 1.3 seconds behind his own team-mate.
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Russell has cut the points gap, but his concern is deeper: he needs to close the performance gap to Antonelli to stay in the 2026 title fight.
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