Spa: Antonelli survives Verstappen and Leclerc for win #6 — Russell and Hamilton collide lap 1
What a way to open the weekend. Russell and Hamilton collide at the very first corner and Russell's out on the spot — brutal way for a championship rival to lose a Sunday before it's even properly started. At the front, Antonelli's pole-to-win run wasn't the walk it's sometimes looked like this season: lost the lead to Verstappen off the line, lost it again to Leclerc after a well-timed VSC stop, then hunted both down and repassed Leclerc on lap 34 to win by under two seconds. Verstappen completed the podium. Probably Antonelli's hardest-earned win of the year, which given the run he's on is saying something.