OSCAR BRAVO

Piastri leaves Lando languishing and lamenting lame effort

- BY DANIEL MOXON

LANDO NORRIS admitted he was not committed enough as he lost the Belgian Grand Prix on the first racing lap of a rain-affected affair.

A downpour at Spa-Francor-champs saw the race delayed by 90 minutes as race control deemed the conditions too treacherous.

And Piastri reacted the sharpest when a rolling start got things going, pulling off the race winning move on the same straight where he had lost the shorter Sprint to Max Verstappen a day earlier.

The Aussie learned his lesson and is now 17 points clear of his McLaren teammate and F1 title rival.

"Oscar just did a good job, there is nothing more to say," shrugged Norris. "He committed more through Eau Rouge, got the slipstream and the run (up the Kemmel Straight).

"That was it, there was nothing else I could do at that point. Oscar deserved it today."