Hungarian Grand Prix winner Piastri kicked up some gravel at Flip 7 (which might have price him a minimum of a few tenths of a second) to go quickest.
Verstappen couldn’t reply to beat him, crossing the road simply 0.002s adrift, however the different McLaren of Norris stored it tremendous clean to go quickest with a 1m 42.260s lap, 0.215s faster than anybody else.
Sergio Perez – who’s underneath strain after a poor run of kind – continued to battle to match staff mate Verstappen in Belgium, the Mexican ending FP2 a second off the tempo of the Dutchman in ninth.
The Ferraris emerged because the third-best squad at this stage of the weekend, with Charles Leclerc fourth, 0.577s off the tempo, and Carlos Sainz 0.25s additional again in fifth.
George Russell was the main Mercedes in sixth, one second off the tempo, forward of Haas-bound Esteban Ocon – who bounced again from lacking most of FP1 with a suspected leak to complete an excellent seventh for Alpine.