Overview
- Lando Norris topped FP2 with a 1:23.083 lap, nearly four tenths clear of Max Verstappen, after also leading the earlier session.
- Max Verstappen was second in both practices, while Oscar Piastri placed 11th in FP2 after skipping FP1 under the rookie running requirement.
- FP1 featured a rookie-heavy field as teams met the young-driver rule, with Pato O’Ward taking Piastri’s McLaren and placing 14th.
- In FP1, Norris set a 1:24.485 to edge Verstappen by 0.008 seconds, with Charles Leclerc third as soft-tyre runs closed the session.
- Haas prospect Oliver Bearman lost track time due to an FP1 issue but returned to post fifth in FP2, as Brazil’s Gabriel Bortoleto impressed with seventh in FP1.