Schedule: what are the official timings for the Belgian Grand Prix?

The Belgian Grand Prix is next up on the Formula 1 calendar with a return to the sprint race format this weekend, so what is the schedule for this weekend? 

Feature image credit: McLaren Racing

Belgium will ignite the second half of the 2025 F1 world championship with a double header consisting of the Belgian and Hungarian Grand Prix, before the sport heads to the annual summer break. 

Last time out, at the British Grand Prix, McLaren’s Lando Norris took back-to-back wins in the Austrian-Great Britain double header and cut down the deficit to his championship-leading teammate, Oscar Piastri. 

The two McLarens now stand at the top of the drivers standings, eight points apart with Piastri (234 points) leading Norris (226), whilst Red Bull’s Max Verstappen rounds out the top three, 69 points behind the championship lead. 

Belgium’s race also marks the third sprint race of the season, following China and Miami earlier on, and with it the sprint race format. 

It means the teams will have only one hour to gather data and hone in their set-ups before qualifying begins for the sprint race. The teams will be allowed to make further adjustments after the sprint before being locked in for qualifying, for the Belgian GP. 

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What is the schedule for the race weekend? 

*Times are shown in local time*

Friday: FP1 and Sprint Qualifying 

FP1 – 12:30pm

Sprint Qualifying – 4:30pm

Saturday: Sprint and Qualifying

Sprint – 12pm

Qualifying – 4pm

Sunday: the Belgian Grand Prix

Race – 3pm

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Kamron Kent

Hi, I'm Kamron. I created ApexMotorsports.co.uk in the dying embers of the 2021 Formula 1 world championship. It allowed me freedom to write whatever I wanted to write about which was all things motorsports, my passion. I have put a lot of effort in over the years to keep this website in its best shape and I've loved seeing the brand grow consistently, month-on-month, year-on-year. My ambition is to keep watching this brand grow into a primary outlet of news for all things motorsports whilst fueling my desire to pursue a career in sports journalism, specialising in motorsports.