Max Verstappen romped to victory in Saturday afternoon's sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix, taking the victory from the McLaren of Oscar Piastri.
The race was shortened by four laps after a handful of formation laps behind the safety car to clear standing water off the track, the drivers taking a rolling start and half the cars immediately diving into the pits for intermediate tyres.
Piastri was one of those, while Verstappen stayed out a lap longer and lost his lead in the pits when he did stop. The Dutchman closed in on the McLaren quickly, but his charge was briefly halted when the safety car was brought out to deal with the stranded Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso.
Verstappen stuck to Piastri's tail at the restart though, and was through within a matter of corners – pulling away at a rate of knots despite some complaints about the state of his brakes.