With a Ferrari and a Mercedes already on the sidelines before SQ1 was over, qualifying for the latest Formula 1 sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix was full of shocks from the outset.

Here's our pick of the big winners and losers on a pretty mixed-up (first place aside) Spa grid.

Loser - Mercedes (13th & 20th)

Mercedes had arrived in Belgium hopeful of a strong showing – especially after its dominant performance last year where it finished 1-2 on the road before George Russell's later disqualification.

But while the pace of the car did not look too bad on Friday, Mercedes managed to pull defeat from the jaws of victory as an unexplained spin in SQ1 for Kimi Antonelli appears to have derailed team-mate Russell's afternoon too.

Antonelli labelled his off at Stavelot as "weird" as he reckoned that potentially a gust of wind may have played it part in him losing the rear of his car in an incident that left him dead last in qualifying.

The timing of Antonelli's moment could not have been worse for Russell though as he was one of the first cars to run through the gravel cloud thrown up by his team-mate – and he suspects this was the trigger for his failure to make it out of SQ2.