The two Ferrari drivers ended up third and fourth with Carlos Sainz ahead, while Charles Leclerc made a small error on his final Q3 lap that proved costly in the fight for pole.
The shortened 12-minute Q1, 10-minute Q2, eight-minute Q3, was delayed by 35 minutes due to heavy rainfall prior to the original start time.
When the drivers did get going they generally ran throughout each segment, other than when some attempted taking fresh tyres and an ambitious early attempt to take slicks at Aston Martin in Q2 that backfired for Lance Stroll.
Blue skies had appeared by the end of Q1, while all the drivers that made it through to Q3 completed that session on slicks.
In Q3, Lewis Hamilton led after the first runs, where some drivers took an alternative approach of putting in an extra preparation lap, which included Sergio Perez.
He therefore headed the times before being shuffled back to eighth, while Hamilton ended up only improving enough for seventh on his second flier after an apparent miscommunication with his team-mate George Russell meant both appeared to get in each other’s way going up the Eau Rouge/Raidillon sequence up to the Les Combes chicane.
Source: Autosport