Short Corners
Enjoy Short Corners with your host, Peter Windsor. A championship-winning former F1 Team Manager (with Williams) and General Manager at Ferrari, Peter is also the recipient of six international awards for F1 journalism. Listen to Peter's absorbing livestreams and special features, all packed with F1 anecdotes and Peter's unique ability to recognise and to explain the precise styles of today's F1 drivers. Short Corners? A phrase originally coined by Rob Wilson to explain the extra-ordinary talent of the greatest F1 stars.
Short Corners
F1 Belgian GP - full analysis with Peter Windsor
It rained all right - exactly at the time of the scheduled start of the Belgian GP. This being 2025 F1, however, we didn't get a wet race. Instead, the drivers sat around for 75 minutes or so before starting behind a Safety Car on a rapidly-drying track. The pole of McLaren's Lando Norris then disappeared in the time it took for his team-mate, Oscar Piastri, to tow past Lando on the main straight on the first racing lap with an 11kph speed advantage - and thereafter it was Oscar all the way, helped by a slow pit stop for Lando plus two time-consuming Lando errors on hard-compound Pirelli slicks. Charles Leclerc finished a valiant third in his low-downforce Ferrari; Max Verstappen's wet rear wing settings left him a sitting duck on the dry track and a frustrated P4; George Russell finished fifth for Mercedes; and Alex Albon drove beautifully for Williams-Mercedes to hold off Sir Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari for P6-P7. Peter in this podcast looks back at the three days in Spa - at the Sprint pole for Oscar; at the Sprint win for Max; and then the Qualifying pole of Lando. There's lots of detail, too, about the upgrades to the cars as we go into the first part of a double-header before the August break.
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