Last year’s Belgian Grand Prix ended painfully for Mercedes’ George Russell when he was stripped of on-track victory for being underweight - but in 2025 the disappointments have been stacking up even before the lights go out.
Russell qualified 13th for the sprint race, his worst grid position of the year, and spent the entire race in a DRS train behind Yuki Tsunoda’s Red Bull, finishing 12th thanks to Pierre Gasly’s Alpine not making it to the grid. In qualifying for the grand prix Russell reached Q3 but could do no better than sixth, 0.639s off pole position.
