Oscar Piastri bagged his sixth Grand Prix victory of the 2025 season, beating staff mate and title rival Lando Norris to win in Belgium, because the on-track motion between the McLaren pair stored individuals gripped.
However there was additionally lots occurring in Spa off the monitor too. Here is a round-up of 5 stuff you might need missed throughout the Belgian Grand Prix weekend…
Yuki Tsunoda-Piastri
The second many F1 followers have been ready for lastly occurred forward of the race on Sunday when Oscar Piastri’s mum Nicole met her ‘adopted son’ Yuki Tsunoda.
Yuki gave her a signed No.22 cap, with Nicole gushing: “I simply assume you’re incredible, a extremely good individual… Backing my boys!”
“My boys” jokingly refers to each Purple Bull’s Yuki and Drivers’ Championship chief Oscar.
That every one began a yr in the past when Oscar joked on X (previously Twitter) he hoped to seek out some Monegasque roots, with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc providing to undertake him in response.
Throughout that weekend F1 even modified Oscar’s identify on the free apply standings to ‘Oscar Piastri-Leclerc’.
Nicole’s response was to submit: “It seems there is a emptiness for a son in my household, @yukitsunoda07?” And she or he has subsequently been noticed carrying Tsunoda merchandise from then on.
Her dream weekend in Belgium was accomplished when her precise son Oscar stormed to victory in Sunday’s race to increase his championship lead.
A household affair for Piastri
The Piastri household have been out in power at Spa, with Oscar’s grandfather attending his first race outdoors of Australia.
After his victory, Oscar wrote this message on the profitable champagne bottle: “To Grandad. I suppose it is advisable to come to races extra usually too!”
The McLaren man defined afterwards: “One among my sisters, in Spain, that was her first race outdoors of Australia, and that was a superb weekend. Now my grandfather [is] the identical, so perhaps I must get my members of the family one after the other for the remainder of the races!”
F1’s opening titles that includes a Hans Zimmer twist
Would you want your F1 titles with a little bit additional Hans Zimmer sauce?
Followers tuning in for the Belgian Grand Prix have been greeted by the F1 The Movie soundtrack tune ‘F1’ accompanying the standard title sequence – which you’ll be able to take pleasure in within the video beneath!
Zimmer, a twice Oscar-winning legendary composer, frolicked speaking to seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton to know what it’s like driving an F1 automotive earlier than he wrote his rating for F1 The Film. “It’s harmful, but extremely elegant,” he stated.
These dedicated to Brian Tyler’s epic F1 theme needn’t concern: it is going to be again!
Chequered flag icons
Have you ever ever seen a chequered flag waved with such panache?
The sharp-dressed gentleman was 80-year-old Jacky Ickx, Belgium’s best F1 racer and twice a runner-up within the World Championship.
Ickx has eight F1 wins to his identify – coincidentally the very same quantity as all three drivers on the rostrum on Sunday have, Oscar Piastri, Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc.
Actual Madrid and Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois additionally acquired the honour of waving the flag to complete the Dash on Saturday, and was a little bit extra cautious in his method!
Do you know you will get your identify on a sq. of the chequered flag, after which personal that sq. after it has been waved? Nicely now you do…! Find out more
Amelia Dimoldenberg X HAAS
British comic and presenter, Amelia Dimoldenberg, was among the many celebrities who loved a weekend at Spa.
It’s not Amelia’s first brush with F1, with Lando Norris that includes on her YouTube sequence ‘Rooster Store Dates’ final yr.
Throughout a six-minute (intentionally!) awkward encounter, Amelia acquired Lando’s recommendation on methods to move her driving concept check; earlier than pointedly making reference to the actual fact her fellow Brit had but to win an F1 race.
Simply 44 days after the episode was revealed, Lando broke his duck on the Miami Grand Prix, the primary of eight victories for McLaren since.
Dimoldenberg was noticed within the Haas storage in Belgium although – and is it a coincidence that Esteban Ocon and Oliver Bearman each completed within the factors within the Dash? (Sure, most likely).
