We've had a couple of weeks without races in F1, but they're back this week with the Belgian Grand Prix - one of my favorite circuits.
Most of the headlines have been about how Red Bull sacked their team boss, Christian Horner, a couple of days after the British Grand Prix. He's held the job for 20 years. Various reasons have been given, but apparently it didn't come as a big surprise to many in the team. BTW. He's married to Geri from the Spice Girls.
Under the new team boss, Max Verstappen split the McLarens to qualify in second of today's sprint race. He passed Oscar Piastri on the first lap and went on to win the race. Oscar finished second ahead of Lando Norris and Charles Leclerc. There were also good results for Esteban Ocon (Haas), Carlos Sainz Jnr (Williams), Oliver Bearman (Haas) and Isack Hadjar (RB) who all scored points (only the top eight score in sprint races).
You can see the sprint race highlights here.
For tomorrow's race, Lando took pole ahead of team mate Oscar, with Charles in third and Max down in fourth. Red Bull finally got both of their cars and both of feeder team RB's cars into the top 10. Lewis Hamilton had a terrible time qualifying in his Ferrari. In the sprint race qualifying he was eliminated in the first session after going off the track at the final corner, and in the main race qualifying he exceeded track limits on his fast lap and had his time deleted, also eliminating him in the first session.
You can see the qualifying highlights here.
We could have another wet race tomorrow (the Spa track is famous for having its own micro-climate), so anything could happen!