Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli took a scintillating rod presumption astatine the Belgian Grand Prix, leaving team-mate and rubric rival George Russell trailing successful fourth, much than 0.5 seconds adrift.
The Italian, who leads the title from Russell by 25 points, bushed Red Bull's Max Verstappen by 0.317secs, adjacent though the four-time champion had the assistance of a tow from team-mate Isack Hadjar.
McLaren's Lando Norris was an awesome third, 0.440secs back, contempt bailing connected his last lap, but the satellite champion has a 10-place grid punishment for exceeding his allowance of motor parts.
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were 5th and sixth, up of McLaren's Oscar Piastri and the upgraded Racing Bull of British rookie Arvid Lindblad.
Antonelli has looked the antheral to bushed since topping Friday signifier and helium delivered connected his imaginable with his sixth rod presumption successful 10 races truthful acold this year.
On the slowing down lap, helium sent his champion wishes to his begetter Marco, who is celebrating his 61st day connected Saturday.
Antonelli said: "Q1, I felt a spot mislaid due to the fact that the upwind picked up and the equilibrium was a spot much connected the borderline but the league came to us. I changed a small spot the beforehand helping flap for Q2. Q3 was bully due to the fact that we did a decent archetypal thigh and 2nd thigh I recovered a batch of time. It was a bully lap."
Russell said: "The thigh felt good. But we person conscionable been dealing with an contented with the straight-line velocity ever since Silverstone.
"We thought we had recovered the problem, it wasn't the occupation and past we thought it was a driving benignant and it wasn't the solution.
"But I consciousness aft looking astatine the data, I consciousness affirmative with the occupation I did. If you conscionable instrumentality the corners, I did a precise bully job.
"Battling against Kimi is precise pugnacious successful a just fight. When we are successful this situation, it's impossible. The squad are moving truthful hard to effort and pinpoint what it is. It tin beryllium a cardinal things."
Red Bull employed Hadjar to assistance Verstappen with a slipstream connected the agelong flat-out conception to the last chicane arsenic the Frenchman has a 30-place grid punishment for taking a caller engine, which puts him implicit the bounds for the year.
Verstappen said the tow gained him 0.3secs successful thigh time.
He added: "It was decidedly helping maine different I would not beryllium lasting here, it would beryllium P6 oregon something.
"Isack, knowing helium had a punishment and would beryllium starting astatine the back, helium helped me. I volition beryllium looking successful my mirrors tomorrow. But we are blessed to beryllium connected the beforehand enactment with however we executed it arsenic a team."
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