Overview

• Oscar Piastri set a 1:40.510 in SQ3 to clinch sprint pole, outpacing Max Verstappen by 0.477 seconds.
• He narrowly escaped elimination after a lap deletion for exceeding track limits left him 0.041 seconds above the cut in SQ2.
• Lando Norris took third on the grid with Charles Leclerc and Esteban Ocon in fourth and fifth respectively.
• Lewis Hamilton spun at the Bus Stop chicane in SQ1 and will line up 18th for Saturday’s sprint race.
• George Russell failed to progress beyond SQ2 and will start 13th on the sprint grid.