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The Ringer F1 Show

Belgian Grand Prix Recap

The Ringer F1 Show

The Ringer

Sports

4.3 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Megan and Spanners get together to share their instant reactions to the results of the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix, which featured Oscar Piastri taking first place. They talk about how much the rain delay affected the day’s action, discuss Lando Norris’s excuses for his disappointing run, and analyze McLaren’s strategy throughout the race. After the break, they shine a light on Lewis Hamilton’s successes, speculate on Max Verstappen’s future with Red Bull, and provide an update on the midfield standings. Host: Megan SchusterGuest: Spanners ReadyProducer: Chris Sutton Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Football Show out on Spotify or on our new YouTube channel. Hello, welcome to the Ringer F1 show, part of the Ringer podcast network. I am your host, Megan Schuster, and we are here to talk about the 2025 Belgian Grand Prix.

0:34.3

Oscar Piestri wins a wet race. Landon Norris finishes second and Charles

0:39.1

LeClair takes third. Rounding out the rest of the top 10 are Max Verstappen, George Russell,

0:43.7

Alex Albond, Lewis Hamilton, Liam Lawson, Gabriel Bordeletto, and Pierre Gassley. We've got a lot

0:49.5

to talk about today from some rather interesting weather-related decisions from the FIA to another

0:55.8

McLaren 1-2 to a nice recovery drive from one Lewis Hamilton.

1:01.2

Joining me to get into all of it is Spanners. Spaners, we had about an hour and 20 minutes of a delay

1:07.9

here. How are you doing? What did you make of everything today?

1:12.1

I had such a good nap during that rain delay. And growing up as a 90s Formula One fan,

1:18.2

it was always a nap sport. They'd set off on lap one and then at some point you'd doze off

1:22.7

and then you wake up to see if anyone's engine had blown up. Spoiler, yes, someone's engine had blown up. But yeah,

1:29.8

I mean, you know me, I'd like to be very positive. You know, I don't like to complain. I like to

1:34.5

see the best in things. And actually, I get really kind of defensive on behalf of Formula One.

1:40.2

I always have done over the years when people call it boring. And, you know, during sort of 17, 18, 19, 2019, this new kind of breed of media people came through who expected different things, often younger.

1:52.8

But then obviously their drive-to-surve crowd expected something else, something different.

1:56.6

And I remember there was a French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard.

2:00.6

And there was one overtake. I think there was one overtake and maybe Holcomberg tried another one. And there was a lot of content creators just going mad going, this is so boring. And I sat there as the 44 year old comagion I am going, maybe if we don't appreciate this kind of thing, then if one's not for you. Do you know what I. Do I mean? Full-on gatekeeping. But obviously our expectations have changed. And I really don't like when people just go, oh, it's really boring. What a boring race. I'm like, stop being negative. Boring people get bored. However, this whole weekend has really, really tested that standpoint.

2:34.9

It's been a rough one.

2:36.0

I'll say I was trying to do a little entertaining this weekend.

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