Carlos Sainz, who will incidentally become Albon’s new team mate in 2025, is the final driver to make it into the top half of the list for Spa. A challenging Q3 session in those demanding wet conditions left him far behind the high-flying Leclerc on the grid, and on race day he had to settle for only a handful of points in a lonely sixth position.
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Missing out
It was not the weekend Lando Norris had been hoping for in Belgium, with the Briton struggling for confidence behind the wheel of his McLaren despite topping Friday’s timesheets. A costly meeting with the gravel at the exit of Turn 1 saw him drop from fourth to seventh position and, from there, he found it difficult to recover lost ground in the dirty air. As such, he just missed the Power Rankings top-10 cut this time out.
