{"id":494723,"date":"2025-07-27T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=494723"},"modified":"2025-07-27T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:38:36","slug":"piastri-triumphs-at-the-belgium-grand-prix-to-extend-lead","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/piastri-triumphs-at-the-belgium-grand-prix-to-extend-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Piastri triumphs at the Belgium Grand Prix to extend lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri overcame his teammate shortly after the official start of the race, and that was enough for him to keep the 1<sup>st<\/sup> place and win the Belgium GP.<\/p>\n<p>Oscar triumphed at SPA with a 3.41-second advantage ahead of Lando Norris, as the tire advantage of Lando in the final laps didn\u2019t allow him to fight for the lead.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"no\" dir=\"ltr\">Oscar Piastri reigns at Spa \ud83d\udc51<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BelgianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BelgianGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iNAPinfsuv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/iNAPinfsuv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1949508574255661380?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The victory, the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of the campaign and 8<sup>th<\/sup> of his career, extended Oscar\u2019s championship lead to 16 points and denied Lando, who had started from the 1<sup>st<\/sup> position, a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive triumph.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that Lap 1 would be my best opportunity of taking the lead,\u201d shared Piastri.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Leclerc secured the last place on the podium for Ferrari as he finished ahead of Max Verstappen, who was 4<sup>th<\/sup>. George Russell finished 5<sup>th<\/sup> as he was almost 35 seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain was the cause of the race being delayed for over an hour as the start was behind a safety car for 4 laps.<\/p>\n<p>Max was the last one to triumph at the Belgium GP from pole, as the Dutch did in 2021.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RACE CLASSIFICATION <\/p>\n<p>Another assured drive from Oscar Piastri as he extends his championship lead \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/F1?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#F1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BelgianGP?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#BelgianGP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6k423dp94r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6k423dp94r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Formula 1 (@F1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/F1\/status\/1949502950864208220?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri overcame his teammate shortly after the official start of the race, and that was enough for him to keep the 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":494724,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[23203,17680,17480],"news_category":[16921,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[23204,20684,1081],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Oscar won the Belgium GP and extended his championship lead.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494725,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/494723\/revisions\/494725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494723"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=494723"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=494723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}