He won in Australia at the start of the season when it hammered down. He won at Silverstone last time out when it also poured with rain. Now Lando Norris is hoping to make it a hat-trick of wet weather wins for the year after claiming pole position at a Spa circuit which is braced for its traditional race-day monsoon.

Max Verstappen won the first Formula One race staged following Christian Horner's dismissal as Red Bull team principal in Saturday's sprint race in Belgium. Eighteen days after Horner was told his two-decade reign was over,

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS – McLaren’s Lando Norris pipped championship-leading teammate Oscar Piastri to pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday. The Briton lapped the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in a best time of 1min 40.562sec with Piastri a mere 0.085 slower. Norris will be chasing his third win a row in Sunday’s race.